Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 624 - Contractors › RESIDENTIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS USED TO PRODUCE ELECTRICITY › Section 624.694 - Practices constituting deceptive advertising; prohibited advertising practices; definitions

Current through June 11, 2024
1. A contractor
			 shall not engage in deceptive advertising or bait and switch advertising
			 regarding work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate
			 electricity or the sale or lease of a residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity.
2. A
			 contractor engages in deceptive advertising if, when advertising work
			 concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate electricity, the
			 contractor knowingly:
(a) Makes a false
			 representation about work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity.
(b) Makes a
			 false representation as to the source, sponsorship, approval or certification
			 of work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate
			 electricity.
(c) Makes a false
			 representation as to affiliation, connection, association with or certification
			 by another person or entity.
(d)
			 Represents that work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity is of a particular standard, quality or grade, or that
			 goods related to such work are of a particular style or model, if the
			 contractor knows or reasonably should know that the work or goods do not meet
			 the advertised standard, quality, grade, style or model.
(e) Makes false or misleading statements of
			 fact concerning the price of work concerning a residential photovoltaic system
			 used to generate electricity or the reasons for, existence of or amounts of
			 reductions in price.
(f) Makes any
			 untrue statement of a material fact while advertising for work concerning a
			 residential photovoltaic system used to generate electricity.
(g) Fails to disclose or omits any material
			 fact in connection with advertising for work concerning a residential
			 photovoltaic system used to generate electricity.
(h) Disparages the goods, services or
			 business of another provider of work concerning a residential photovoltaic
			 system used to generate electricity by false or misleading representation of
			 fact.
(i) Advertises work
			 concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate electricity with
			 the intent not to perform the work as advertised.
(j) Advertises work concerning a residential
			 photovoltaic system used to generate electricity with the intent not to supply
			 reasonably expected public demand, unless the advertisement discloses a
			 limitation of quantity.
(k)
			 Advertises that work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity can be completed within a certain number of days, unless,
			 at the time the advertisement was made, more than half of the projects of work
			 concerning residential photovoltaic systems used to generate electricity the
			 contractor has completed were completed within the advertised number of
			 days.
(l) As a part of an
			 advertising plan or scheme, notifies a person that the person has won a prize
			 and that as a condition of receiving the prize, the person must enter into a
			 contract for work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate
			 electricity.
(m) Advertises for
			 work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate electricity:
(1) Using an illustration of a residential
			 photovoltaic system used to generate electricity and setting forth a price,
			 with interest if financed, that, at the time the advertisement was made, does
			 not accurately reflect the completed residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity as illustrated; or
(2) Setting forth an offer for work
			 concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate electricity that
			 does not comply with the federal Truth in Lending Act, as amended,
			 15 U.S.C.
			 §§
											1601 et seq., and any federal
			 regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
(n) Advertises that the use of a residential
			 photovoltaic system used to generate electricity is free of charge without
			 disclosing applicable costs which are a condition of receiving the residential
			 photovoltaic system used to generate electricity.
(o) Uses coercion, duress or intimidation in
			 advertising work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate
			 electricity or the sale or lease of a residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity.
(p)
			 Advertises work concerning a residential photovoltaic system used to generate
			 electricity or the sale or lease of a residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity without having all state, county or city licenses
			 necessary to perform such work or conduct such sale or lease.
(q) Fails to disclose or makes a false
			 representation in advertising the characteristics, uses or benefits of:
(1) Work concerning a residential
			 photovoltaic system used to generate electricity; or
(2) A residential photovoltaic system used to
			 generate electricity.