Why 60 is the number

Sixty hours is not arbitrary. It is Nevada's existing pre-licensing standard for community managers, and the amendment reaches it by cross-reference rather than by restating it. NAC 116A.120(1) splits that requirement into two parts: at least 20 hours of instruction relating to federal, state and local laws applicable to managing a common-interest community, and at least 40 cumulative hours across the other prescribed subjects.

The effect is to close a gap. Before this amendment, someone could enter Nevada community management on a temporary certificate with 18 hours of instruction and emerge a year later with a full certificate on that basis, while a person coming in the front door needed 60. After it, the temporary route becomes a timing difference rather than a training discount.

The one-way nature of the temporary certificate makes the stakes concrete. NAC 116A.137(3) is unforgiving on this point, and the Division states it in bold on its own page: a temporary certificate may not be renewed, and no person may obtain another temporary certificate after theirs has expired. A temporary manager who reaches month twelve with 30 hours has not simply fallen short of an upgrade — they are out.

The Commission has already been ordering 60 hours as a remedy

There is an instructive parallel in the Commission's own disciplinary docket. In a consolidated matter decided in 2026, a Nevada supervising community manager was found to have allowed association operating-account checks to be co-signed by a company employee who was neither a certified manager, nor a board member, nor an officer of the association. The order downgraded the supervising certificate to an ordinary community-manager certificate and conditioned any future restoration on completing Nevada's sixty-hour CAM pre-licensing course within a year.²

The Commission is, in other words, already treating the 60-hour course as the benchmark for competence in the one forum where it can impose it case by case. Section 14 makes it the entry standard.

A classroom is now a place or a platform

Sections 10, 11 and 13 do something quieter and arguably more consequential for how Nevada managers are trained: they put remote instruction into the administrative code.

“‘Classroom’ means a physical location or electronic platform through which live instruction is provided.”

“‘Live instruction’ means instruction provided by an instructor who: 1. Is physically located in the same room as the student…; 2. Uses electronic means of communication to provide instruction through an electronic platform in such a manner that the person providing the instruction and the student receiving the instruction are separated by distance but not time; or 3. Uses any combination of methods described in subsections 1 and 2.”

“Separated by distance but not time” is the whole test, and it is a good piece of drafting: it admits livestreamed and hybrid teaching and excludes recorded coursework, without needing to name a single technology.

This has been the practice since 2024

The Division has been permitting live and hybrid instruction under guidance rather than regulation for more than two years. Informational Bulletin #039, “Live & Hybrid Instruction in Common-Interest Community Management Education,” dated March 8, 2024, set out what attendance means when the classroom is a video call:³

“When attending a course via livestream for credit, in accordance with the provisions of NRS 116A.410, a licensee must direct their attention to the instruction being provided and refrain from engaging in activities: 1. Unrelated to the instruction. 2. Which are distracting to other students or the instructor. 3. Which may otherwise disrupt the orderly conduct of a class.”

The bulletin also requires cameras on for the duration of the class excluding scheduled breaks, and appropriate dress, and names the disqualifying activities explicitly — driving or riding in a vehicle, cooking, cleaning, using unrelated devices. R091-25 codifies the framework; the bulletin remains the place where the behavioural detail lives.

What does not change

Renewal requirements for provisional, full and supervising community managers are untouched by this regulation: Form 630, 18 hours of continuing education including 3 hours of law, and a $200 renewal fee. The temporary certificate application fee is also $200. Nothing in R091-25 establishes a new fee — the Division says so in the notice.

And none of it is in force. The Commission adopted the regulation on September 9, 2026; no adopted text has been filed, and the Division's list of approved NAC 116 changes still ends at a regulation effective in December 2022.