Is there a legal limit on late fees in Nevada?

5% of the amount of the periodic rent. The fee must be 'a reasonable late fee ... as set forth in the rental agreement' (NRS 118A.210(4)), so reasonableness applies on top of the hard 5% cap and the charge must be provided for in the agreement.

Does a late fee have to be written into the lease in Nevada?

Yes — in Nevada a late fee must be stated in the lease.

Can a landlord charge a daily late fee in Nevada?

A daily fee cannot be used to grow the charge: the total late fee for a rental period is capped at 5% of the periodic rent.

What late fees can a landlord charge in Nevada?

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Under the landlord and tenant act, Nevada caps residential late fees at 5 percent of the periodic rent, and in any tenancy longer than week-to-week no late fee may be imposed until at least 3 calendar days after rent is due.

Cited to NRS 118A.210 (4)(a)-(c) and 2 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

The fee must be a reasonable one set forth in the rental agreement — with no written agreement, the statute presumes the tenant owes no late charges at all — and a landlord may not grow the charge by stacking it: the maximum late fee cannot be increased based on a late fee previously imposed, which rules out daily escalation past the 5 percent ceiling. The cap dates to SB 151 (2019); the 3-day grace period was added by AB 308 effective July 1, 2021. Since October 1, 2025, AB 121 also requires every quoted rent figure to be a single all-in number including any mandatory fees, and a tenant lawfully withholding rent over habitability failures incurs no late fees while doing so. Lot rent in a manufactured home park follows its own act: no late fee may be charged within 4 days after the rent is due, and the fee may not exceed $5 for each day the payment is overdue, not counting Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays (NRS 118B.140).

Nevada late fees at a glance

Statutory cap	5% of the amount of the periodic rent
Mandatory grace period	3 days
Must be in the lease	Yes
Daily fees	A daily fee cannot be used to grow the charge: the total late fee for a rental period is capped at 5% of the periodic rent. NRS 118A.210(4)(c) forbids increasing the maximum fee based on a previously imposed late fee, which bars daily accrual or per-occurrence escalation past the 5% ceiling and bars fee pyramiding across months.
Reasonableness standard	The fee must be 'a reasonable late fee ... as set forth in the rental agreement' (NRS 118A.210(4)), so reasonableness applies on top of the hard 5% cap and the charge must be provided for in the agreement. NRS 118A.200(5)(c) adds a disputable presumption, when there is no written agreement, that the tenant pays no charges for late or partial payment at all.

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Notes and caveats

Two different bills, commonly garbled — The 5% cap and the no-compounding rule were enacted by SB 151 (2019) ('A 2019, 3926'). The 3-calendar-day grace period was added by AB 308 (2021) Sec. 2 ('A 2021, 399'), effective July 1, 2021 — confirmed from the enrolled AB 308 digest and text.
Week-to-week tenancies get no grace period — The 3-day grace period applies only to tenancies longer than week-to-week; a week-to-week tenancy has no statutory grace period at all. The 3 days shown is the general-case figure.
The statute does not say how AB 121's all-in rent interacts with the 5% cap — 'Periodic rent' is the base for the 5% cap, and AB 121 (2025, NRS 118A.200(6)-(8), eff. 10/1/2025) now requires the single stated rent figure to include any mandatory fees charged on top of the base rent. The statute does not say how that interacts with the 5% base.
Related 2025 fee rules that are not late-fee rules — NRS 118A.303 requires one fee-free payment method and allows portal fees only as a pass-through; NRS 118A.306 covers application-fee refunds and bars application, credit and background fees for household minors. Both came from AB 121 and should not be conflated with the late-fee rules.
AB 223 (2025) was vetoed — AB 223 (2025) touched adjacent remedy provisions but was vetoed and never took effect.

Common questions: Nevada late fees

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Is there a legal limit on late fees in Nevada?: 5% of the amount of the periodic rent. The fee must be 'a reasonable late fee ... as set forth in the rental agreement' (NRS 118A.210(4)), so reasonableness applies on top of the hard 5% cap and the charge must be provided for in the agreement.
Is there a grace period before rent is late in Nevada?: 3 days.
Does a late fee have to be written into the lease in Nevada?: Yes — in Nevada a late fee must be stated in the lease.
Can a landlord charge a daily late fee in Nevada?: A daily fee cannot be used to grow the charge: the total late fee for a rental period is capped at 5% of the periodic rent.

Citations

NRS 118A.210 · (4)(a)-(c) (verified 2026) Official source
NRS 118A.200 · (3)(g), (5)(c) (verified 2026) Official source
AB 308 (2021), Sec. 2 (session law adding the 3-calendar-day grace period, eff. 7/1/2021) · Sec. 2 (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Nevada Legislature site (leg.state.nv.us NRS-118A.html, Rev. 4/15/2026, codified through the 2025 session): NRS 118A.242, 118A.240, 118A.300, 118A.210 and 118A.330 each read on the official page. Session laws read in full from official archive PDFs: enrolled AB 308 (2021) confirming the 45-to-60-day and 15-to-30-day rent-notice change (Sec. 7, eff. 7/1/2021) and the 3-calendar-day late-fee grace period (Sec. 2); enrolled AB 121 (2025, all-in rent pricing, eff. 10/1/2025, confirmed codified); enrolled AB 223 (2025) read and confirmed VETOED (its changes absent from the official codified text). 2025 regular-session and 36th Special Session outcomes checked 2026-07-10; Nevada's biennial legislature has no 2026 regular session. September 5, 2026 addendum: the decisive figures touched by the 2025-2026 enactments reviewed that day were re-read on the official host — NRS 118A.200 and 118A.349 on leg.state.nv.us; the earlier reads stand as recorded. On October 1, 2026 every section the security deposit, rent increase, late fee and entry answers rest on was read again on leg.state.nv.us (chapter 118A, still stamped Rev. 4/15/2026 and codified through the 2025 session; no session of any kind was held in 2026), together with chapter 118B on manufactured home parks, NRS 244.137 to 244.146 and 268.001 to 268.0035 on county and city powers, the enrolled bills and the Statutes of Nevada for the acts named here, and the codes of Las Vegas, Henderson, Reno, North Las Vegas, Sparks, Carson City, Clark County and Washoe County for rent regulation.