1. The registrant must file an answer to the charges with the Commission not later than 30 days after service of the notice and other documents described in NRS 645C.702. The answer must contain an admission or denial of the allegations contained in the complaint and any defense upon which the registrant will rely. If no answer is filed within the period described in this subsection, the Division may, after notice to the registrant is given in the manner provided in subsection 5 of NRS 645C.702, move the Commission for the entry of a default against the registrant.
2. The answer may be served by delivery to the Commission, or by mailing the answer by certified mail to the principal office of the Division.
3. No proceeding to suspend or revoke a registration as an appraisal management company may be maintained unless it is commenced by giving notice to the registrant within 5 years after the commission or omission of the alleged grounds to suspend or revoke the registration as an appraisal management company, except that:
(a) If the charges are based upon a misrepresentation or failure to disclose, the period does not commence until the discovery of facts which do or should lead to the discovery of the misrepresentation or failure to disclose; and
(b) The period is suspended during the pendency of any action or proceeding, to which the Division, registrant or one of the affiliated appraisers of the registrant is a party, which involves the conduct of the registrant or the affiliated appraiser in a transaction to which the alleged grounds to suspend or revoke the registration are related.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 478)