Subject to the terms of a document or an agreement governing an entity or an entity ownership interest, and unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, language in a power of attorney granting general authority with respect to operation of an entity or business authorizes the agent to:
1. Operate, buy, sell, enlarge, reduce or terminate an ownership interest.
2. Perform a duty or discharge a liability and exercise in person or by proxy a right, power, privilege or option that the principal has, may have or claims to have.
3. Enforce the terms of an ownership agreement.
4. Initiate, participate in, submit to alternative dispute resolution, settle, oppose, propose or accept a compromise with respect to litigation to which the principal is a party because of an ownership interest.
5. Exercise in person or by proxy, or enforce by litigation or otherwise, a right, power, privilege or option the principal has or claims to have as the holder of stocks and bonds.
6. Initiate, participate in, submit to alternative dispute resolution, settle, oppose, propose or accept a compromise with respect to litigation to which the principal is a party concerning stocks and bonds.
7. With respect to an entity or business owned solely by the principal:
(a) Continue, modify, renegotiate, extend and terminate a contract made by or on behalf of the principal with respect to the entity or business before execution of the power of attorney;
(b) Determine:
(1) The location of its operation;
(2) The nature and extent of its business;
(3) The methods of manufacturing, selling, merchandising, financing, accounting and advertising employed in its operation;
(4) The amount and types of insurance carried; and
(5) The mode of engaging, compensating and dealing with its employees and accountants, attorneys or other advisors;
(c) Change the name or form of organization under which the entity or business is operated and enter into an ownership agreement with other persons to take over all or part of the operation of the entity or business; and
(d) Demand and receive money due or claimed by the principal or on the principal’s behalf in the operation of the entity or business and control and disburse the money in the operation of the entity or business.
8. Put additional capital into an entity or business in which the principal has an interest.
9. Join in a plan of reorganization, consolidation, conversion, domestication or merger of the entity or business.
10. Sell or liquidate all or part of an entity or business.
11. Establish the value of an entity or business under a buy-out agreement to which the principal is a party.
12. Prepare, sign, file and deliver reports, compilations of information, returns or other papers with respect to an entity or business and make related payments.
13. Pay, compromise or contest taxes, assessments, fines or penalties and perform any other act to protect the principal from illegal or unnecessary taxation, assessments, fines or penalties with respect to an entity or business, including attempts to recover, in any manner permitted by law, money paid before or after the execution of the power of attorney.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 187)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
NRS 162A.020 - "Acknowledged" defined.
NRS 162A.030 - "Agent" defined.
NRS 162A.040 - "Durable" defined.
NRS 162A.050 - "Electronic" defined.
NRS 162A.060 - "Good faith" defined.
NRS 162A.070 - "Incapacity" defined.
NRS 162A.075 - "Nondurable" defined.
NRS 162A.080 - "Person" defined.
NRS 162A.090 - "Power of attorney" defined.
NRS 162A.100 - "Presently exercisable general power of appointment" defined.
NRS 162A.110 - "Principal" defined.
NRS 162A.120 - "Property" defined.
NRS 162A.130 - "Record" defined.
NRS 162A.140 - "Sign" defined.
NRS 162A.150 - "State" defined.
NRS 162A.160 - "Stocks and bonds" defined.
NRS 162A.210 - Power of attorney is durable; exceptions.
NRS 162A.230 - Validity of power of attorney.
NRS 162A.240 - Meaning and effect of power of attorney.
NRS 162A.250 - Nomination of guardian of estate; relation of agent to court-appointed guardian.
NRS 162A.260 - Time at which power of attorney is effective.
NRS 162A.270 - Termination of power of attorney or authority of agent.
NRS 162A.280 - Co-agents and successor agents.
NRS 162A.290 - Reimbursement of agent.
NRS 162A.300 - Agent’s acceptance of appointment.
NRS 162A.310 - Duties of agent.
NRS 162A.320 - Exoneration of agent.
NRS 162A.330 - Judicial relief.
NRS 162A.340 - Liability of agent.
NRS 162A.350 - Resignation of agent; notice.
NRS 162A.360 - Acceptance of and reliance upon acknowledged power of attorney.
NRS 162A.370 - Liability for refusal to accept acknowledged power of attorney.
NRS 162A.380 - Principles of law and equity.
NRS 162A.390 - Laws applicable to financial institutions and entities.
NRS 162A.400 - Remedies under other law.
NRS 162A.450 - Grant of specific authority.
NRS 162A.470 - Construction of authority generally.
NRS 162A.490 - Tangible personal property.
NRS 162A.500 - Stocks and bonds.
NRS 162A.510 - Commodities and options.
NRS 162A.520 - Banks and other financial institutions.
NRS 162A.530 - Operation of entity or business.
NRS 162A.540 - Insurance and annuities.
NRS 162A.550 - Estates, trusts and other beneficial interests.
NRS 162A.560 - Claims and litigation.
NRS 162A.570 - Personal and family maintenance.
NRS 162A.580 - Benefits from governmental programs or civil or military service.
NRS 162A.590 - Retirement plans.
NRS 162A.620 - Power of attorney.
NRS 162A.650 - Uniformity of application and construction.
NRS 162A.660 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
NRS 162A.720 - "Attending physician" defined.
NRS 162A.730 - "Declaration" defined.
NRS 162A.740 - "Health care facility" defined.
NRS 162A.745 - "Intellectual disability" defined.
NRS 162A.750 - "Life-sustaining treatment" defined.
NRS 162A.760 - "Provider of health care" defined.
NRS 162A.770 - "Qualified patient" defined.
NRS 162A.780 - "Terminal condition" defined.
NRS 162A.810 - Time at which power of attorney is effective.
NRS 162A.815 - Acceptance and reliance upon acknowledged power of attorney.
NRS 162A.820 - Termination of power of attorney or authority of agent.
NRS 162A.830 - Co-agents and successor agents.
NRS 162A.840 - Persons not eligible for designation as agent.
NRS 162A.860 - Power of attorney: Form.
NRS 162A.865 - Power of attorney for adult with intellectual disability: Form.
NRS 162A.870 - Power of attorney for adult with dementia: Form.