or health club transfers its obligations or moves its place of business. NRS 598.960 Correction of violations. NRS 598.962 Waiver of provisions is void. NRS 598.966 Remedies, duties and prohibitions not exclusive; violation constitutes deceptive trade practice. PROVISION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES NRS 598.968 Definitions. NRS 598.9682 “Provider” defined. NRS 598.9684 “Telecommunications service” defined. NRS 598.969 Prohibited acts: Changing a customer’s carrier without timely authorization; failure to provide timely written notices and confirmations; engaging in other fraudulent or deceptive acts; proposing contract to waive or authorize violations of the protections of this section. NRS 598.9691 Regulations governing disclosures made by provider to customer. NRS 598.9692 Opportunity to freeze interexchange carrier. NRS 598.9694 Remedies, duties and prohibitions not exclusive; violation constitutes deceptive trade practice. REPAIR OF MOTOR VEHICLES NRS 598.971 Definitions. NRS 598.975 “Department” defined. NRS 598.981 “Division” defined. NRS 598.985 Division and Department to cooperate to protect persons who authorize repair of motor vehicles. NRS 598.990 Division to establish and maintain toll-free telephone number concerning alleged violations and develop program to provide certain information to public. _________ GENERAL PROVISIONS NRS 598.0903 Definitions. As used in NRS 598.0903 to 598.0999, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 598.0905 to 598.0947, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1482; A 1983, 881; 1985, 1480, 2256; 1989, 649; 1993, 1979; 1995, 2174; 1997, 158; 1999, 3334; 2001, 660; 2003, 587; 2005, 1227, 1249) NRS 598.0905 “Advertisement” defined. “Advertisement” means the attempt by publication, dissemination, solicitation or circulation to induce, directly or indirectly, any person to enter into any obligation to lease or to acquire any title or interest in any property. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1482; A 1999, 3280) NRS 598.0907 “Certification mark” defined. “Certification mark” means a mark used in connection with the goods or services of a person other than the certifier to indicate geographic origin, material, mode of manufacture, quality, accuracy or other characteristics of the goods or services or to indicate that the work or labor on the goods or services was performed by members of a union or other organization. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1482)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 598.380) NRS 598.091 “Collective mark” defined. “Collective mark” means a mark used by members of a cooperative, association or other collective group or organization to identify goods or services and distinguish them from those of others, or to indicate membership in the collective group or organization. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1483)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 598.390) NRS 598.0913 “Commissioner” defined. “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Consumer Affairs. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1483)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 598.400) NRS 598.0915 “Deceptive trade practice” defined. A person engages in a “deceptive trade practice” if, in the course of his business or occupation, he: 1. Knowingly passes off goods or services for sale or lease as those of another person. 2. Knowingly makes a false representation as to the source, sponsorship, approval or certification of goods or services for sale or lease. 3. Knowingly makes a false representation as to affiliation, connection, association with or certification by another person. 4. Uses deceptive representations or designations of geographic origin in connection with goods or services for sale or lease. 5. Knowingly makes a false representation as to the characteristics, ingredients, uses, benefits, alterations or quantities of goods or services for sale or lease or a false representation as to the sponsorship, approval, status, affiliation or connection of a person therewith. 6. Represents that goods for sale or lease are original or new if he knows or should know that they are deteriorated, altered, reconditioned, reclaimed, used or secondhand. 7. Represents that goods or services for sale or lease are of a particular standard, quality or grade, or that such goods are of a particular style or model, if he knows or should know that they are of another standard, quality, grade, style or model. 8. Disparages the goods, services or business of another person by false or misleading representation of fact. 9. Advertises goods or services with intent not to sell or lease them as advertised. 10. Advertises goods or services for sale or lease with intent not to supply reasonably expectable public demand, unless the advertisement discloses a limitation of quantity. 11. Advertises goods or services as being available free of charge with intent to require payment of undisclosed costs as a condition of receiving the goods or services. 12. Advertises under the guise of obtaining sales personnel when the purpose is to first sell or lease goods or services to the sales personnel applicant. 13. Makes false or misleading statements of fact concerning the price of goods or services for sale or lease, or the reasons for, existence of or amounts of price reductions. 14. Fraudulently alters any contract, written estimate of repair, written statement of charges or other document in connection with the sale or lease of goods or services. 15. Knowingly makes any other false representation in a transaction. 16. Knowingly falsifies an application for credit relating to a retail installment transaction, as defined in NRS 97.115. (Added to NRS by 1973, 1483; A 1983, 881; 1985, 2256; 1995, 1094; 1997, 1375; 1999, 3280; 2001, 489, 2149) NRS 598.0916 “Deceptive trade practice” defined. A person engages in a “deceptive trade practice” when, in the course of his business or occupation, he disseminates an unsolicited prerecorded message to solicit a person to purchase goods or services by telephone and he does not have a preexisting business relationship with the person being called unless a recorded or unrecorded natural voice: 1. Informs the person who answers the telephone call of the nature of the call; and 2. Provides to the person who answers the telephone call the name, address and telephone number of the business or organization, if any, represented by the caller. (Added to NRS by 1999, 3332) NRS 598.0917 “Deceptive trade practice” defined. A person engages in a “deceptive trade practice” when in the course of his business or occupation he employs “bait and switch” advertising, which consists of an offer to sell or lease goods or services which the seller or lessor in truth may not intend or desire to sell or lease, accompanied by one or more of the following practices: 1. Refusal to show the goods advertised. 2. Disparagement in any material respect of the advertised goods or services or the terms of sale or lease. 3. Requiring other sales or other undisclosed conditions to be met before selling or leasing the advertised goods or services. 4. Refusal to take orders for the sale or lease of goods or services advertised for delivery within a reasonable time. 5. Showing or demonstrating defective goods for sale or lease which are unusable or impractical for the purposes set forth in the advertisement. 6. Accepting a deposit for the goods or services for sale or lease and subsequently switching the purchase order or lease to higher priced goods or services. 7. Tendering a lease of goods advertised for sale or a sale o

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