A. For all regulated real estate transactions first executed on or after January 1, 2000, no agency relationship between a buyer, seller, landlord or tenant and a brokerage shall exist unless the buyer, seller, landlord or tenant and the brokerage agree, in writing, to the agency relationship. No type of agency relationship may be assumed by a buyer, seller, landlord, tenant or licensee, or created orally or by implication.
B. A brokerage may provide real estate services to a client pursuant to an express written agreement that does not create an agency relationship and no agency duties will be imposed on the brokerage.
C. A brokerage may provide real estate services to a customer without entering into an express written agreement and without creating an agency relationship and no agency duties will be imposed on the brokerage.
D. The commission shall promulgate rules governing the rights of clients or customers and the rights, responsibilities and duties of a brokerage in those brokerage relationships that are subject to the jurisdiction of the commission.
History: Laws 1999, ch. 127, § 2; 2003, ch. 36, § 2.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2003 amendment, effective January 1, 2004, inserted present Subsections B and C and redesignated former Subsection B as present Subsection D; in present Subsection D deleted "and responsibilities" following "governing the rights" near the beginning and substituted "a brokerage in those brokerage relationships that are subject to the jurisdiction of the commission" for "the brokerage in an agency relationship" at the end.