Nevada Eviction Process: Notice Periods, Timeline, and Costs

NRS 40.2512 and NRS 40.253 require a written notice giving a residential tenant seven judicial days to pay the rent or surrender the premises. Judicial days exclude weekends and court holidays, so a seven-judicial-day notice usually runs nine to eleven calendar days. The notice must identify the court with jurisdiction, tell the tenant of the right to contest by filing a tenant's affidavit with that court before the deadline, warn that a removal order can be carried out twenty-four to thirty-six hours after posting, and reference the tenant's protections against unlawful lockouts under NRS 118A.390. Serve it under NRS 40.280 by personal delivery, by leaving it with a person of suitable age plus mailing, or by posting plus mailing.

NRS 40.2516 requires a five-day written notice to perform the lease condition or surrender; if the tenant does not cure, the landlord then serves a separate five-judicial-day notice to quit for unlawful detainer that carries the affidavit advisement. Nuisance, waste, unlawful subletting, unlawful business, and controlled-substance violations are handled under NRS 40.2514 with a three-day notice and no right to cure, again followed by the five-judicial-day notice to quit.

Under NRS 40.251 a landlord ends a month-to-month tenancy with thirty days' written notice, or seven days for a week-to-week tenancy, and no cause is required. A tenant aged sixty or older or with a disability who submits written proof may request an additional thirty days. After the no-cause period expires, the landlord must serve a second, five-judicial-day notice to quit for unlawful detainer before filing.

Summary evictions are filed in the justice court for the township where the property sits, such as Las Vegas Justice Court, which charges $71 to file the landlord's affidavit of complaint. Budget an additional constable or sheriff lockout fee, paid separately when the eviction order issues.

Nevada reverses the usual order: the tenant must file a tenant's affidavit with the justice court before the close of business on the seventh judicial day after service in a nonpayment case, or the fifth judicial day in other summary eviction cases. If no affidavit is filed the landlord files an affidavit of complaint and the court can issue a removal order without a hearing.

Uncontested, a Nevada summary eviction commonly runs two to five weeks: the judicial-day notice period, then filing, then a removal order the constable posts and executes not earlier than twenty-four and not later than thirty-six hours later. A tenant affidavit forces a hearing, the court can stay the order for up to ten days, and an appeal to district court adds months.

Lockouts, lock changes, blocking entry, and shutting off essential services are prohibited unless a court has ordered removal; only a sheriff or constable may perform the lockout. NRS 118A.390 lets the tenant recover immediate possession or terminate the rental agreement and recover actual damages plus an amount up to $2,500 set by the court. The tenant can file a verified complaint for expedited relief within five judicial days of the landlord's act, and a landlord who receives a file-stamped tenant affidavit is barred from locking the tenant out.

Assembly Bill 283 (2025) would have flipped the burden by requiring landlords to file with the court first and giving tenants seven judicial days to respond, and would have expanded automatic sealing of summary eviction records, but Governor Lombardo vetoed it in June 2025. Nevada's tenant-files-first summary eviction structure is therefore unchanged.

Miscounting judicial days is the single most common reason Nevada notices fail: weekends and court holidays do not count, and you cannot file until the day after the period runs out. The notice must also carry the statutory advisement language and name the correct justice court, because a notice that omits the tenant's right to file an affidavit is defective. No-cause and lease-violation evictions require two separate notices, not one. If the notice period lapses more than thirty days before you file, it expires and you must start over. Nevada is the only state where the tenant, not the landlord, makes the first court filing in a summary eviction, so nothing happens on the court's docket until the tenant contests or you file your affidavit of complaint.

• Nev. Rev. Stat. § 40.253
• Nev. Rev. Stat. § 40.251
• Nev. Rev. Stat. § 118A.390