Construction Fraud

Constructional fraud occurs if a person engaged in construction knowingly:

• Misapplies money
• Obtains money, property or labor by false pretense
• Receives payments and fails to state his own true name, or states a false name, contractor’s license number, address or telephone number of the person offering a service;
• Diverts money or commits any act of theft, forgery, fraud or embezzlement, in connection with a construction project
• Acts as a contractor without a contractor's license
• Submits false information concerning a payroll to a public officer or agency in any report relating to a contract for a public work
• Fails to disclose a material fact.

A Contractor

A contractor is anyone who in any capacity except as an employee of another with wages as the sole compensation, undertakes to, offers to undertake to, purports to have the capacity to undertake to, or submits a bid to, or does himself or by or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement. (NRS 624.020)