NRS116B.435. Accounting for fines in books and records of association; prohibition against applying payment for assessment, fee or other charge toward payment of fine; exceptions.

  If an association has imposed a fine against a residential unit owner or a tenant or guest of a residential unit owner pursuant to NRS 116B.430 for violations of the governing documents of the association, the association:

      1.  Shall, in the books and records of the association, account for the fine separately from any assessment, fee or other charge; and

      2.  Shall not apply, in whole or in part, any payment made by the residential unit owner for any assessment, fee or other charge toward the payment of the outstanding balance of the fine or any costs of collecting the fine, unless the residential unit owner provides written authorization which directs the association to apply the payment made by the unit’s owner in such a manner.

      (Added to NRS by 2007, 2216)