NRS338.555. Amounts withheld as retainage; payment of interest. [Effective July 1, 2015.]

      1.  If a public body and a contractor enter into a contract for a public work, the contractor may withhold as retainage not more than 10 percent from the amount of any progress payment due under a subcontract which is made before 50 percent of the work has been completed under the subcontract. Thereafter the contractor shall pay any additional progress payments due under the subcontract without withholding any additional retainage if, in the opinion of the contractor, satisfactory progress is being made in the work under the subcontract, and the payment must be equal to that paid by the public body to the contractor for the work performed by the subcontractor.

      2.  If the contractor receives a payment of interest earned on the retainage or an amount withheld from a progress payment, the contractor shall, within 10 days after he or she receives the money, pay to each subcontractor or supplier that portion of the interest received from the public body which is attributable to the retainage or amount withheld from a progress payment by the contractor to the subcontractor or supplier.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 1160; A 1981, 553; 1983, 1592; 1999, 1994; 2011, 1622, effective July 1, 2015)