Nevada Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 6, 2015) |
Chapter645F Mortgage Lending and Related Professions |
STANDARDS OF PRACTICE |
NAC645F.670. Fiduciary obligation of licensee.
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1. In addition to any other duties set forth in this chapter or chapter 645F of NRS, any person licensed pursuant to this chapter and chapter 645F of NRS has a fiduciary obligation to a client.
2. For the purposes of this section, a person’s fiduciary obligation does not impose a requirement to obtain access to products or services for a client other than those that are available to the person at the time of the transaction.
3. As used in this section, “fiduciary obligation” means a duty of good faith and fair dealing, including, without limitation, the duty to:
(a) Act in the client’s best interest;
(b) Conduct only those services which are suitable for the client’s needs;
(c) Disclose any financial, business, professional or personal interest the person has in conducting a transaction for the client;
(d) Disclose any material fact that the person knows or should know may affect the client’s rights or interests or the ability to obtain the intended benefit from a transaction;
(e) Provide an accounting to the client that lists all money received from the client; and
(f) Exercise reasonable care in performing any other duty relating to the provision of services as a covered service provider, foreclosure consultant or loan modification consultant, as applicable.
(Added to NAC by Comm’r of Mortgage Lending by R052-09, eff. 8-25-2009)