All money deposited in escrow to be delivered upon the close of the escrow or upon any other contingency must be kept separate from money belonging to the escrow agent or agency and must be deposited in a financial institution that is federally insured or insured by a private insurer approved pursuant to NRS 672.755 unless another financial institution has been designated in writing in the instructions for the escrow. The money when deposited must be designated as ‘trust funds’ or ‘escrow accounts’ or under some other appropriate name indicating that the money is not the money of the escrow agent or agency.

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Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.160

  • Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
  • Escrow: means any transaction wherein one person, for the purpose of effecting or closing the sale, purchase, exchange, transfer, encumbering or leasing of real or personal property to another person or persons, delivers any written instrument, money, evidence of title to real or personal property, or other thing of value to a third person to be held by such third person until the happening of a specified event or the performance of a prescribed condition, when it is then to be delivered by such third person, in compliance with instructions under which he or she is to act, to a grantee, grantor, promisee, promisor, obligee, obligor, lessee, lessor, bailee, bailor or any agent or employee thereof. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010
  • Escrow agent: means any natural person employed by and associated with an escrow agency engaged in the business of administering escrows for compensation. See Nevada Revised Statutes 645A.010