NRS598.855. Trust account required for payments on contracts. [Effective July 1, 2015.]

      1.  Before the organization receives any money from any buyer pursuant to a contract for membership in the organization, it shall establish a trust account for payments on contracts at a financial institution that is federally insured or insured by a private insurer approved pursuant to NRS 678.755. Each payment from a buyer for his or her contract for membership, except for $50 of the first payment, must be deposited in the trust account.

      2.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, during each quarter of the term of a buyer’s contract or each 6 months, whichever period is shorter, the trustee shall withdraw one-quarter of the buyer’s payments under the contract from the trust account and pay the amount to the organization.

      3.  If an affiliate organization obtains the express consent of its parent and the parent posts the security required by subsection 4, the affiliate organization may:

      (a) Authorize the parent to serve as the trustee pursuant to NRS 598.865 for the trust accounts required by this section and NRS 598.860; and

      (b) Authorize the trustee to make the following withdrawals from the trust account required by this section:

             (1) During the first quarter of the term of a buyer’s contract or the first 6 months, whichever period is shorter, the trustee shall withdraw not more than one-half of the buyer’s payments under the contract from the trust account and pay the amount to the affiliate organization; and

             (2) During the second quarter of the term of the buyer’s contract or the second 6 months, whichever period is shorter, the trustee shall withdraw the remaining balance of the buyer’s payments under the contract from the trust account and pay the amount to the affiliate organization.

      4.  Before a trustee may withdraw money from a trust account pursuant to subsection 3, the parent must post security in the amount of $250,000 with the Consumer Affairs Division pursuant to NRS 598.726. The security posted by the parent:

      (a) Provides coverage for all of the parent’s affiliate organizations that are authorized to act pursuant to subsection 3;

      (b) Must be conditioned on compliance by such an affiliate organization with the provisions of NRS 598.840 to 598.930, inclusive, the terms of the buyer’s contract for membership in the affiliate organization and the terms of any contract with the buyer for the purchase of goods or services; and

      (c) May be used to pay a claim against such an affiliate organization only if the security posted by the affiliate organization pursuant to NRS 598.851 has been exhausted.

      5.  If the organization sells, transfers or assigns the contract with the buyer to a third party, and the third party gives reasonable consideration for the contract, the organization shall deposit the consideration in the trust account. If the third party does not give reasonable consideration for the contract, the organization shall deposit all payments on the contract from the buyer in the organization’s trust account for payments on the contract.

      (Added to NRS by 1985, 961; A 1999, 1519; 2005, 1374; R temp. 2009, 2732; R temp. 2011, 2652; R temp. 2013, 1054, expires by limitation on June 30, 2015)