Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 89.220

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Employee: means a person licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render professional service within this State who renders such service through a professional entity or a professional association, but does not include clerks, bookkeepers, technicians or other persons who are not usually considered by custom and practice of the profession to be rendering professional services to the public. See Nevada Revised Statutes 89.020
• person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
• Professional association: means a common-law association of two or more persons licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render professional service within this State when created by written articles of association which contain in substance the following provisions characteristic of corporate entities:

  (a) The death, insanity, bankruptcy, retirement, resignation, expulsion or withdrawal of any member of the association does not cause its dissolution. See Nevada Revised Statutes 89.020

• Professional service: means any type of personal service which may legally be performed only pursuant to a license, certificate of registration or other legal authorization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 89.020
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.