111.237 - Prohibition or restriction based on race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin. - Nevada Statutes

111.237  Prohibition or restriction based on race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin.

      1.  Every provision in a written instrument relating to real property which purports to forbid or restrict the conveyance, encumbrance, leasing or mortgaging of such real property to any person of a specified race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin is voidable by the grantee, the grantee’s successors and assigns in the manner prescribed in subsection 3 and every restriction or prohibition as to the use or occupation of real property because of the user’s or occupier’s race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin is voidable by the grantee, the grantee’s successors and assigns in the manner prescribed in subsection 3.

      2.  Every restriction or prohibition, whether by way of covenant, condition upon use or occupation, or upon transfer of title to real property, which restriction or prohibition directly or indirectly limits the acquisition, use or occupation of such property because of the acquirer’s, user’s or occupier’s race, color, religion, ancestry or national origin is voidable by the grantee, the grantee’s successors and assigns in the manner prescribed in subsection 3.

      3.  The owner or owners of any real property subject to any restriction or prohibition specified in subsections 1 and 2 may record an affidavit declaring such restrictions or prohibitions to be void in the office of the county recorder in which such real property is located, and such recording shall operate to remove such restrictions or prohibitions.

      (Added to NRS by 1965, 763)