You have 3 business days to cancel, or 10 if you are 60

You can cancel. Nevada gives you until midnight of the third business day after you sign a residential solar contract to call it off in writing, with no penalty and no reason required, and until midnight of the tenth business day if you are 60 years of age or older. That is one of about a dozen protections the state wrote into your side of the deal, and most of them are things a seller has to do whether or not you know to ask.

None of it is obscure. It is NRS 598.9801 to 598.9822 and NRS 624.830 to 624.895, and you can read every word at the links at the bottom. What follows is what is in them, in the order it matters when there is a folder open on your kitchen table. This is a description of the law, not legal advice.

The three cancellation clocks

NRS 598.98216 covers a purchase, a lease and a power purchase agreement alike. You may rescind or cancel "without any penalty or obligation" by giving notice in writing not later than midnight of:

The statute lets you deliver the notice, mail it, telegraph it or send it by electronic mail. It goes to the company's place of business, to another place named in the agreement, or to the email address printed on the cover page, and it only has to "contain words indicating the intent" to cancel. You do not owe anyone an explanation.

Two things people get wrong. They are business days, not calendar days, so a Friday signature with a Monday holiday buys you more of the week than you would guess. And the cancellation email address is a required cover-page item, printed for exactly this purpose. If it is not on the page, the page is already defective.

The survey window almost nobody mentions

NRS 598.982145 is new, added to NRS in 2025. The company must perform an on-site physical survey of your house and give you the results. If that survey happens after you signed, and it turns up any condition that would push the price up or change the equipment, you get 3 business days from receiving the results to rescind the agreement, and to rescind the loan that went with it.

One narrow exception. Swapped equipment does not reopen the window if all three are true: the substitute is of equal or superior quality, it costs you nothing extra, and it does not cut the estimated first-year production by more than 5 percent.

The cover page is a checklist, and you can mark it

NRS 598.9813 tells a seller exactly what has to sit on the front of a purchase agreement. Five items in at least 16-point font: the cancellation right, the email address for cancelling, notice of the recording requirement, notice that before installation you get to confirm no other promises were made, and a statement that the arrangement may affect the future sale of your property and that you should consider advice from a real estate professional, an attorney or a financial adviser.

Then sixteen more in at least 10-point font. Most are what you would expect: system size, warranty term, timeline, total cost, amounts due at signing and at completion, estimated first-year production. Four are worth marking with a pen, because they are the ones a weak seller cannot answer:

• What they paid for you. If the company paid for the lead or referral that put your agreement in front of you, the cover page has to state the amount.
• Whether they are actually here. The page has to disclose whether the company keeps a physical office in Nevada where its employees work, and whether it has at least one motor vehicle registered in Nevada.
• Whether they are in compliance. A plain disclosure of whether the company is in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.
• Who is sitting across from you. A disclosure of whether the person who first presented you with the agreement is an employee of the company.

The page must also carry notice of the Residential Recovery Fund, notice that you may complain to the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, contact details including a telephone number for that Commission and for the State Contractors Board, and notice that before you sign you may ask for any document used in the sale in any language.

The recorded call that has to happen before anyone touches your roof

Under NRS 598.98213 the company must, in person or by telephone or videoconference, confirm your identity, read you the cover-page information and confirm you understood it. That conversation must be recorded, at signing or within 48 hours after, and no installation may begin until the recording has been made.

It is then kept for not less than 5 years after the final inspection. Here is the lever inside it: you can ask for a copy, in writing or by email, at any point in those five years. The company has 10 business days to hand it over, and if it misses that deadline the agreement becomes voidable by you.

A promise that is not in the contract is not a promise

The hardest thing to argue about afterwards is a number said out loud and never written down. Nevada answers that in four places.

1. NRS 598.9813(1)(d). The cover page has to tell you that before installation you will have the chance to confirm that no representations, offers or promises were made about the purchase other than what the agreement contains. That confirmation is your moment. If something you were told is missing, say so then.
2. NRS 598.982186(1)(a). A company may not include in any written or electronic marketing materials a material term that is not in the agreement itself.
3. NRS 598.982186(1)(b). It is deceptive conduct to use the logo, seal, insignia, branding or uniform of the State or of a public utility, to claim to be an employee or agent of either, or to indicate or imply that the seller takes part in a governmental scheme for incentives, tax credits or financial assistance unless the agency running it has authorised that claim in writing. Paragraph (6) of the same list makes it deceptive to mention an incentive, rebate or tax credit without the independent tax professional statement that subsection 2 of the section sets out, which is why what the federal tax credit is worth in 2026 carries that line.
4. NRS 598.9814(22). Every purchase agreement must set out what the company will do if the system misses its estimated first-year production. One year after permission to operate, the company must either take the actions needed to make the number in the following year, including fitting more equipment or repairing what is there, or send you written acknowledgement that it fell short and then do those things if it misses again a year later.

That last one is the closest thing Nevada has to a production guarantee, and it is in your contract whether or not the seller brings it up.

The warranty floors

NRS 598.9821 sets minimums. Anything longer is the company competing. Anything shorter is unlawful.

On a purchase those component warranties may come directly from the installer or be passed through from the manufacturer, and the difference matters enormously later. NRS 598.9814 requires a copy of all warranties inside the agreement, each one acknowledged by your initials, plus a disclosure of whether the obligations transfer to whoever buys your house next.

So a salesperson who says the warranty is excellent but has no document to hand you is not describing paperwork that arrives later. They are describing an agreement that cannot lawfully be written. If your installer has since closed, what to do when your installer goes out of business picks it up from there.

Money: what they can take, and when

• The deposit is capped. At most $1,000 or 10 percent of the aggregate contract price, whichever is less. NRS 598.982185, NRS 598.9814 and NRS 624.875 all say it independently.
• Nothing else until the utility says yes. NRS 598.982185 says the company shall not accept any payment for the installation before the system receives permission from the utility to connect, or, off grid, passes final inspection and becomes operational.
• Having taken your deposit, they have to start. NRS 624.870 gives a contractor 30 days after all necessary permits and all necessary utility approvals are issued to start the work, unless you agree in writing to longer. The State Contractors Board states the same rule in plain words on its residential solar page, and adds that a contractor who has been paid may not refuse to perform agreed work for any 30 day period.
• Progress payments are bounded. NRS 624.875 requires the schedule to show each payment as a sum in dollars and cents, and forbids payments exceeding 100 percent of the value of the work performed at any point, excluding finance charges, apart from the deposit.
• Whoever sold your details is capped too. Under NRS 598.982184 nobody may take more than $2,000 for a lead or referral, or sell one to a person without a contractor's licence, and every commercial communication about such a lead must begin with: "This is a commercial solicitation that is not affiliated with any governmental agency or electric utility."

If you are financing, there is a second contract and a second clock

Since 2025 the finance company carries its own duties. The ones worth knowing:

• The loan agreement must display, at the top of the first page in at least 16-point font, the term of the loan and a description of what happens if you die before it is repaid (NRS 598.98211). For a buyer in their sixties, that sentence is the most important one on the page.
• You cancel the loan separately, in writing, to the financier, on the same three or ten business day clock, and on the same three days after a survey result (NRS 598.982149). Cancelling the installation contract does not cancel the loan.
• A financier may not disconnect your system or stop you using it over missed payments unless you have missed three consecutive monthly payments (NRS 598.982182).
• If your loan is sold on, the buyer of it takes it subject to your claims and defences against the original financier, up to the amount still owed (NRS 598.98218).
• A fee passed to you for something a third party charged, a credit check for example, may not exceed what the third party actually charged (NRS 598.982147).
• If the financier failed to confirm the installer was properly licensed and working inside its monetary limit, the loan, lease or power purchase agreement is voidable by you for 3 years after permission to operate (NRS 598.982143). Which structure you are being sold matters here, and prepaid, lease, loan or cash sets out who owns what under each.

What happens when a company breaks one of these

NRS 598.9822 is short and it does a lot of work. Failure to comply with any of NRS 598.9801 to 598.9822 is a deceptive trade practice. A company that knowingly fails to comply, including by knowingly failing to keep that recording, leaves the agreement voidable by you. And a violation is consumer fraud for the purposes of NRS 41.600, which says that a prevailing claimant is awarded the damages sustained, any equitable relief the court thinks appropriate, and costs and reasonable attorney's fees. NRS 41.600 also says that action is not an action on the underlying contract.

Chapter 624 adds two more. A clause asking you to waive a right given by that chapter, or relieving anyone of an obligation under it, is void, and failure to meet the contract requirements makes the contract voidable by the homeowner (NRS 624.875).

Behind all of it sits the Residential Recovery Fund, paid for by contractor assessments. If you are financially damaged by a licensed residential contractor, NRS 624.510 allows recovery of your actual damages up to $40,000, with all claims against any single contractor capped at $750,000 or 20 percent of the fund balance, whichever is less. NRS 624.480 gives you 4 years after completion of the work to file. Your contract has to carry the Recovery Fund notice in the first place (NRS 624.520).

If the sale happened in another language

Any document described in these sections must be provided in English, or in any other language if someone asks before it is executed. Stronger still: if a company advertises or negotiates in a language other than English, or lets an employee or agent do it, NRS 598.9822 requires it to deliver a full translation of the contract and every notice, before signing, including every term and condition. NRS 624.875 gives you the matching right to ask for a contract written in the language it was explained in.

Check us the same way

Simmons Solar Electric is Simmons Electric LLC, Nevada contractor licence 0032580A, a C-2 electrical licence held since 2013, with a monetary limit of $125,000. NRS 624.875 requires that number and that limit to appear in the contract, so take them to the State Contractors Board's own licence search and confirm the status reads Active before you speak to us. The Board's advice to a homeowner approached by a solar salesperson is the advice we would give about ourselves: get the name and licence number first, verify the status, and do not be pressured into signing on the spot. The rest of the questions worth asking are in what to ask before you sign, and the sixty second licence check is in how to check a solar contractor's licence.

We are a licensed Nevada electrical contractor, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. Every section named on this page is at the links below. If the contract in front of you is missing one of these items, take it to a Nevada attorney, to the Nevada State Contractors Board or to the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada before you sign anything else.

We recheck this page quarterly. Last checked 2026-09-20. If a number here has moved, tell us and we will fix it the same week.