1. Except as otherwise permitted by law and as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the amount of any advance fee, salary, deposit or money paid to a mortgage company and his or her mortgage loan originators or any other person to obtain a loan which will be secured by a lien on real property must be placed in escrow pending completion of the loan or a commitment for the loan.
2. The amount held in escrow pursuant to subsection 1 must be released:
(a) Upon completion of the loan or commitment for the loan, to the mortgage company or other person to whom the advance fee, salary, deposit or money was paid.
(b) If the loan or commitment for the loan fails, to the person who made the payment.
3. Advance payments to cover reasonably estimated costs paid to third persons are excluded from the provisions of subsections 1 and 2 if the person making them first signs a written agreement which specifies the estimated costs by item and the estimated aggregate cost, and which recites that money advanced for costs will not be refunded. If an itemized service is not performed and the estimated cost thereof is not refunded, the recipient of the advance payment is subject to the penalties provided in NRS 645B.960.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 618; A 1979, 1397; 1989, 1442; 1991, 178; 1995, 1313; 1999, 3793; 2011, 3615; 2017, 3051, effective January 1, 2020)
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