NRS602.035. Authority of county to provide for expiration of certificate; filing of renewal certificate; notice to persons who have filed certificates.

      1.  The board of county commissioners of a county may provide, by ordinance, that a certificate filed with the county clerk pursuant to NRS 602.010 expires 5 years after it is filed.

      2.  If such an ordinance is adopted, on or before the expiration of the certificate, the person doing business in the county under an assumed or fictitious name that does not indicate the real name of each person who owns an interest in the business must file a renewal certificate containing the information required by NRS 602.020 with the county clerk.

      3.  A renewal certificate filed pursuant to this section:

      (a) Expires 5 years after it is filed with the county clerk.

      (b) Must include a statement indicating that the renewal certificate expires 5 years after the date on which it is filed with the county clerk.

      4.  Upon the adoption of such an ordinance, the county clerk shall notify those persons who have filed certificates in the county pursuant to NRS 602.010 that they are required to renew those certificates pursuant to the provisions of this section by:

      (a) Publishing such notice in a newspaper of general circulation in the county; and

      (b) Mailing such notice to the last known address of those persons.

      (Added to NRS by 2001, 810; A 2003, 3192)