Nevada

Nevada Lien Waiver Forms

Nevada prints all four lien waiver forms in NRS 108.2457. A waiver that is not in one of these forms is unenforceable.

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The four Nevada statutory lien waiver forms, conditional and unconditional, for progress and final payment
The four statutory forms in NRS 108.2457
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Statutory text verified Sep 7, 2026 Source leg.state.nv.us Free, no sign-up

Written consent that waives or limits lien rights is unenforceable unless the claimant signs a waiver and release in the form set out in the statute, and, for a conditional waiver, actually receives the payment identified in it.

NRS § 108.2457(1)

Nevada puts its warning in a place nobody looks. On the two unconditional forms the notice is not at the top the way California and Texas print it. It sits underneath the signature block, after you have already signed.

The four forms below are the statute's own text, with the dotted fill-in lines the way the Legislature prints them.

Filling them in is the tedious part, and it is the part APARBooks does for you. See how the blanks fill themselves from the payment you already recorded.

Nevada

Two questions get you to the right form

Has the money actually cleared? And is this a progress billing or the last one? That's the whole decision.

Conditional / not paid yet
Unconditional / paid
Progress
Conditional Waiver and Release Upon Progress Payment NRS § 108.2457(5)(a) You're handed a check for a draw. Sign this. It takes effect only once the check clears. Unconditional Waiver and Release Upon Progress Payment NRS § 108.2457(5)(b) Only after the draw has cleared. Nevada puts its warning at the bottom, under the signature.
Final
Conditional Waiver and Release Upon Final Payment NRS § 108.2457(5)(c) Closeout check in hand, not yet cleared. Has a line for disputed claims. Unconditional Waiver and Release Upon Final Payment NRS § 108.2457(5)(d) Gives up every lien and bond right on the job. Sign only after final payment clears.

Conditional Waiver and Release Upon Progress Payment

NRS § 108.2457(5)(a)
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Use it when: you're asked to sign in exchange for a progress billing and you have not been paid yet, or you were handed a single-payee or joint-payee check.
CONDITIONAL WAIVER AND RELEASE UPON PROGRESS PAYMENT
Property Name:
Property Location:
Undersigned’s Customer:
Invoice/Payment Application Number:
Payment Amount:

Upon receipt by the undersigned of a check in the above-referenced Payment Amount payable to the undersigned, and when the check has been properly endorsed and has been paid by the bank on which it is drawn, this document becomes effective to release and the undersigned shall be deemed to waive any notice of lien, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to payment rights that the undersigned has on the above-described Property to the following extent:.

This release covers a progress payment for the work, materials or equipment furnished by the undersigned to the Property or to the Undersigned’s Customer which are the subject of the Invoice or Payment Application, but only to the extent of the Payment Amount or such portion of the Payment Amount as the undersigned is actually paid, and does not cover any retention withheld, any items, modifications or changes pending approval, disputed items and claims, or items furnished that are not paid.

Before any recipient of this document relies on it, the recipient should verify evidence of payment to the undersigned.

The undersigned warrants that he or she either has already paid or will use the money received from this progress payment promptly to pay in full all laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials or equipment that are the subject of this waiver and release.

Dated:

(Company Name)

By:
Its:
Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.

Unconditional Waiver and Release Upon Progress Payment

NRS § 108.2457(5)(b)
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Use it when: the progress payment is already in your account. Nevada's warning sits at the end of this form rather than the top, so it is easy to sign past it.
UNCONDITIONAL WAIVER AND RELEASE UPON PROGRESS PAYMENT
Property Name:
Property Location:
Undersigned’s Customer:
Invoice/Payment Application Number:
Payment Amount:

The undersigned has been paid and has received a progress payment in the above-referenced Payment Amount for all work, materials and equipment the undersigned furnished to the Customer for the above-described Property and does hereby waive and release any notice of lien, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to payment rights that the undersigned has on the above-described Property to the following extent:.

This release covers a progress payment for the work, materials and equipment furnished by the undersigned to the Property or to the Undersigned’s Customer which are the subject of the Invoice or Payment Application, but only to the extent of the Payment Amount or such portion of the Payment Amount as the undersigned is actually paid, and does not cover any retention withheld, any items, modifications or changes pending approval, disputed items and claims, or items furnished that are not paid.

The undersigned warrants that he or she either has already paid or will use the money received from this progress payment promptly to pay in full all laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials or equipment that are the subject of this waiver and release.

Dated:

(Company Name)

By:
Its:

(Each unconditional waiver and release must contain the following language, in type at least as large as the largest type otherwise on the document:)

Notice: This document waives rights unconditionally and states that you have been paid for giving up those rights. This document is enforceable against you if you sign it to the extent of the Payment Amount or the amount received. If you have not been paid, use a conditional release form.
Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.

Conditional Waiver and Release Upon Final Payment

NRS § 108.2457(5)(c)
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Use it when: you have the final check but it hasn't cleared. Nevada gives you a Amount of Disputed Claims line here, which most states do not.
CONDITIONAL WAIVER AND RELEASE UPON FINAL PAYMENT
Property Name:
Property Location:
Undersigned’s Customer:
Invoice/Payment Application Number:
Payment Amount:
Payment Period:
Amount of Disputed Claims:

Upon receipt by the undersigned of a check in the above-referenced Payment Amount payable to the undersigned, and when the check has been properly endorsed and has been paid by the bank on which it is drawn, this document becomes effective to release and the undersigned shall be deemed to waive any notice of lien, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to payment rights that the undersigned has on the above-described Property to the following extent:.

This release covers the final payment to the undersigned for all work, materials or equipment furnished by the undersigned to the Property or to the Undersigned’s Customer and does not cover payment for Disputed Claims, if any.

Before any recipient of this document relies on it, the recipient should verify evidence of payment to the undersigned.

The undersigned warrants that he or she either has already paid or will use the money received from the final payment promptly to pay in full all laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials or equipment that are the subject of this waiver and release.

Dated:

(Company Name)

By:
Its:
Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.

Unconditional Waiver and Release Upon Final Payment

NRS § 108.2457(5)(d)
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Use it when: final payment has cleared. This is the strongest of the four, and it still lets you write in a disputed amount to carve out.
UNCONDITIONAL WAIVER AND RELEASE UPON FINAL PAYMENT
Property Name:
Property Location:
Undersigned’s Customer:
Invoice/Payment Application Number:
Payment Amount:
Amount of Disputed Claims:

The undersigned has been paid in full for all work, materials and equipment furnished to the Customer for the above-described Property and does hereby waive and release any notice of lien, any private bond right, any claim for payment and any rights under any similar ordinance, rule or statute related to payment rights that the undersigned has on the above-described Property, except for the payment of Disputed Claims, if any, noted above.

The undersigned warrants that he or she either has already paid or will use the money received from this final payment promptly to pay in full all laborers, subcontractors, materialmen and suppliers for all work, materials and equipment that are the subject of this waiver and release.

Dated:

(Company Name)

By:
Its:

(Each unconditional waiver and release must contain the following language, in type at least as large as the largest type otherwise on the document:)

Notice: This document waives rights unconditionally and states that you have been paid for giving up those rights. This document is enforceable against you if you sign it, even if you have not been paid. If you have not been paid, use a conditional release form. (e) Notwithstanding any language in any waiver and release form set forth in this section, if the payment given in exchange for any waiver and release of lien is made by check, draft or other such negotiable instrument, and the same fails to clear the bank on which it is drawn for any reason, then the waiver and release shall be deemed null, void and of no legal effect whatsoever and all liens, lien rights, bond rights, contract rights or any other right to recover payment afforded to the lien claimant in law or equity will not be affected by the lien claimant’s execution of the waiver and release.
Scroll inside the form to read it all, or download the PDF above.
Nevada

You already typed all of this once

Every blank on these four forms is data you entered when you set up the project, signed the subcontract, or cut the check. APARBooks fills them from those records instead of asking you again.

1

Record the payment

Pay a subcontractor bill, submit a pay application, or write the check. Nothing extra to enter.

2

APARBooks picks the form

Conditional while the check is still outstanding, unconditional once it clears. Progress or final off where you are in the billing cycle.

3

The blanks fill themselves

Property, customer, invoice number and payment amount all come off the project, the subcontract, and the payment you just recorded.

4

Sign and file

E-signature in the portal, no print and scan. The signed waiver is stored on the project with the rest of the pay application package.

On the Nevada form, that means:

Blank on the form
Filled from
Property Name
The project the bill is coded to
Property Location
The job address on the project record
Undersigned's Customer
The subcontract the bill sits under
Invoice / Payment Application Number
The bill or pay application you are paying
Payment Amount
The payment you just recorded
Amount of Disputed Claims
Anything on that bill you have not approved
Dated  /  Company Name  /  By  /  Its
The vendor record, signed with the built-in e-signature

See how the automation works

Four rules that decide whether a Nevada waiver holds

The form is the easy part. These are the subsections that void one.

§ 108.2457(1)

Nobody can take your lien rights by contract

An owner, contractor, or subcontractor may not obtain a waiver of, or impair, another party's lien rights except as this section allows. Written consent that waives or limits lien rights does nothing unless the claimant signs the statutory form and, on a conditional waiver, actually receives the payment named in it.

Unenforceable without the form
§ 108.2457(3)

A joint check only counts for so much

This is Nevada's own rule and it catches people out. When you pay with a two-party joint check to a claimant and another payee in privity with each other, the endorsed and cleared check counts as payment to that claimant for the lowest of three figures: the amount of the check, the amount you meant them to have out of it, or the balance you actually owed them. Anything above that is still owed.

Nevada-specific
§ 108.2457(2)

A side letter or an email waives nothing

An oral or written statement that purports to waive, release, or adversely affect lien rights is unenforceable and creates no estoppel unless there is a written waiver in the statutory form and the claimant was paid, and then only up to the payment actually received.

§ 108.2457(4)

Settlements sit outside the form rules, on two conditions

An accord and satisfaction of a genuine dispute, or a settlement of a pending court or arbitration matter, is not held to these forms. But it only works if it makes specific reference to the lien rights being waived and is in writing signed by the claimant. A verbal handshake or a general release that never mentions the lien does not clear it.

Must name the lien, in writing

Nevada lien waiver FAQ

Still stuck? Email us at support@aparbooks.com.

Only if you are going to exchange a waiver at all. :State does not make you swap waivers for payment. What it does is decide what a waiver has to look like once you do. Most GCs, owners, and construction lenders ask for them anyway, and the moment someone asks, this is the form that has to be used. Something typed up from scratch usually is not worth anything.

Before, using the conditional version. It only takes effect once the check clears, so nobody gives anything up early and you are still covered if the check bounces. The unconditional version is for after the money has actually landed in their account. If someone hands you an unconditional form along with the check, they have it backwards.

They can still put a lien on the job, and the waiver you got from your sub does not stop them. You can only sign away your own rights, not somebody else's. If your sub buys material on account from a supply house, that supply house has its own claim until it gets paid. That is why GCs collect waivers down the chain, not just from the people they write checks to.

Do not ask for one in that situation, and do not lean on it if you get one. An unconditional waiver says the money already arrived. If it has not, the sub has signed away rights for a payment they never received, and that is a fight you do not want on your job. Ask for the conditional version with the check, and the unconditional one after it clears.

Nothing was released. That is the whole point of the conditional version: it only takes effect when the bank actually pays the check. If the check bounces, the lien rights are still there. It is also why a photocopy of an uncashed check is not proof of payment. What counts is the cleared check or written confirmation from the claimant that the money arrived.

Generate them from the payment instead of typing them. Everything the form asks for, who is being paid, the job, the owner, the check and the amount, is already in your books the moment you cut the check. APARBooks builds the right waiver for each sub off that payment, sends it out for signature, and shows you which ones came back. An afternoon of copy and paste turns into part of running the draw.

Yes. The forms call for a signature, not for ink, and electronic signatures are accepted on them. Printing, signing, scanning, and emailing thirty of these is habit, not a requirement. APARBooks has e-signature built in, so a sub can sign from a phone and the signed copy files itself against the project. If an owner or lender insists on a wet signature, that is their own condition, not something the law asks for.

Fill in the blanks, that is fine. Do not rewrite the paragraphs. :State only accepts these forms, and one that somebody edited can end up worth nothing to whoever was counting on it. If you need to carve something out, use the exceptions the form already gives you rather than adding language of your own.

:State does not require it. A signature from the claimant, or from someone authorized to sign for them, is enough. Wyoming and Mississippi are the two states that make you notarize a lien waiver. Plenty of owners and lenders ask for notarization anyway, but that is a condition in their contract, not something the law is asking for.

On a progress payment, no. The progress forms cover the invoice being paid and expressly leave out retention withheld, changes still pending approval, disputed items, and anything furnished that was not paid for. The final forms go further, but they still give you a line to write in an amount you are disputing, so use it rather than signing and hoping.

Less than you might think. Nevada says a two-party joint check, once endorsed and cleared, counts as payment to the claimant for the smallest of three numbers: the face amount of the check, the amount you intended them to get out of it, or what you actually owed them. If the other payee took most of it, the balance is still owed and still lienable.

Yes. The wording is :State law itself, and laws are not copyrighted, so anyone can print these, fill them in, and use them. No sign-up and no email address. If you would rather not fill them in by hand at all, APARBooks generates them from the payment you already recorded.

Official sources
NRS Chapter 108 — Liens (Nevada Legislature) NRS § 108.2457 — Waiver and release of lien rights

The form text on this page is NRS § 108.2457(5), copied from the Nevada Legislature and verified on September 7, 2026, laid out the way the Legislature prints it. Note where the warning sits: on the two unconditional forms Nevada puts it below the signature block, not at the top. APARBooks is construction accounting software, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. Confirm against the current statute before you rely on a form, and talk to a Nevada construction attorney about anything contested.

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