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What late fees can a landlord charge in Nevada?

Verified July 10, 2026 All Nevada topics →

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.

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 mandatory recurring fees, and a tenant lawfully withholding rent over habitability failures incurs no late fees while doing so.

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 Not as a way to grow the charge: the total late fee for a rental period is capped at 5% of the periodic rent, and 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)) — reasonableness applies on top of the hard 5% cap, and the fee must be provided for in the rental 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.

Notes and caveats

Attribution split (commonly garbled): 5% cap and no-compounding rule enacted by SB 151 (2019) ('A 2019, 3926'); the 3-calendar-day grace period added by AB 308 (2021) Sec. 2 ('A 2021, 399'), eff. 7/1/2021 — confirmed from the enrolled AB 308 digest and text. The grace period applies only to tenancies LONGER than week-to-week; a week-to-week tenancy has no statutory grace period (grace_period_days encoded as 3, the general-case figure — carry the week-to-week exception in page copy). 'Periodic rent' is the base for the 5% cap; AB 121 (2025, NRS 118A.200(6)-(8), eff. 10/1/2025) now folds mandatory recurring fees into the single stated rent figure, and how that interacts with the 5% base is untested — flagged, not encoded. Related but distinct 2025 law (do not conflate with late fees): NRS 118A.303 (one fee-free payment method; portal-fee pass-through only) and NRS 118A.306 (application-fee refunds; no application/credit/background fees for household minors), both from AB 121. AB 223 (2025), which touched adjacent remedy provisions, was VETOED.

Statute citations

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 and independently re-read on the codes.findlaw.com mirror (current through 1/1/2025); every load-bearing number matched verbatim across both reads. 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.