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Nevada stock certificate requirements
Nevada starts from the stockholder's right to a certificate. Bearer form is void, the board may authorize uncertificated shares, and a written request has a 10-day confirmation.
The stockholder is entitled to the certificate
NRS 78.235(1) is written from the holder's side. Every stockholder is entitled to a certificate certifying the number of shares in the corporation owned by the stockholder, signed by the designated officers or agents. The confirmed phrase is "certifying the number of shares in the corporation owned by the stockholder." A Nevada corporation that simply never gets around to certificates is arguing with an entitlement, not with a housekeeping preference.
The same subsection voids bearer form. A certificate that does not name the stockholder, and that is meant to travel by possession, is void rather than merely incomplete. Put the stockholder's name on it. "Void" is stronger than "discouraged," and it is the word the confirmed summary uses.
Trap: a bearer certificate in a Nevada corporation. NRS 78.235(1) makes bearer form void. Name the stockholder. Do not leave the holder line empty and call the paper negotiable.
Designated officers or agents, not a guessed pair
The signature rule in NRS 78.235(1) is "designated officers or agents." This page will not rename them as president and secretary, because the confirmed summary does not. Whoever the statute designates signs. If your form has two generic lines and your minutes never say those people are the designated signers, fix the minutes or fix the lines before the certificate goes out.
A printed single-class set is $56.00 for 20 certificates and leaves those signature lines to be completed by the people Nevada actually designates. The Eagle one-class set is the same price if the border is the only change you want.
| Topic | What NRS 78.235 confirms |
|---|---|
| Entitlement | Every stockholder is entitled to a certificate of the shares that stockholder owns |
| Signers | Designated officers or agents |
| Bearer | Void |
| Uncertificated shares | The board may authorize them (NRS 78.235(4)-(5)) |
| Confirmation | Within 10 days after receipt of a written request |
| Par value on the face | Not part of the confirmed NRS 78.235(1) summary |
Uncertificated shares and the 10-day letter
NRS 78.235(4)-(5) lets the board authorize uncertificated shares. The corporation provides a statement within a reasonable time. Separately, within 10 days after receipt of a written request, it provides a confirmation. The confirmed phrase is "Within 10 days after receipt of a written request."
Those are two clocks, and only one of them is numeric. "Reasonable time" is not the 10-day clock. The 10-day clock starts when the written request is received, not when the board wishes it had answered. A company that authorizes uncertificated shares should know who opens the mail and who can send the confirmation inside that window.
The electronic certificate set in the catalog is $21.00 for 12. It is a file for companies that have made the board authorization. It does not erase the statement or the 10-day confirmation.
Trap: missing the 10-day confirmation. NRS 78.235(4)-(5) says that within 10 days after receipt of a written request the corporation sends the confirmation. A reasonable-time statement does not answer that request.
| Paper certificate | Uncertificated shares | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | The stockholder's entitlement under NRS 78.235(1) | Board authorization under NRS 78.235(4)-(5) |
| What goes to the holder | A signed certificate of the shares owned | A statement within a reasonable time |
| If the holder writes and asks | The certificate is the record | Confirmation within 10 days after the request is received |
A lost certificate and a bond
NRS 78.235(6) covers a certificate that was lost, stolen, or destroyed. The corporation may issue a new certificate, and it may require a bond or other security sufficient to indemnify the corporation. The confirmed phrase is "bond or other security sufficient to indemnify." This page does not walk through an affidavit. It records the confirmed power: a replacement certificate, and security if the corporation requires it.
Keep the certificate numbers in a ledger so the replacement refers to the certificate that is actually gone. Issuing a second original, with the first one still in a drawer, is not the lost-certificate case NRS 78.235(6) describes.
Where a generic form goes wrong in Nevada
A form drafted for a state that treats certificates as optional will understate the Nevada entitlement. A form drafted for a state that prints par value as a statutory face item will add a line NRS 78.235(1) does not confirm. A form that leaves the holder blank collides with the bearer-void rule. Use the Nevada sentences: entitlement, designated signers, bearer void, board authorization if there is no paper, reasonable-time statement, 10-day confirmation, and a bond power if a certificate disappears.
The wider checklist, including states that do require a par line or a fully-paid condition, is in what must appear on a stock certificate.
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Certificated Nevada stock: Printed Standard Certificates Class 1 at $56.00, or the Eagle one-class set at $56.00. Two classes: the Class 2 set at $56.00, and put the class rights where your Nevada charter says they live. Uncertificated after a board authorization: the electronic set at $21.00, plus a process for the 10-day confirmation. How the stub and the ledger get filled in is in how to issue stock certificates.
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Is a Nevada stockholder entitled to a stock certificate?
Yes. NRS 78.235(1) says every stockholder is entitled to a certificate certifying the number of shares in the corporation owned by the stockholder, signed by the designated officers or agents.
Are bearer stock certificates valid in Nevada?
No. NRS 78.235(1) provides that bearer form is void.
Can a Nevada corporation use uncertificated shares?
Yes, if the board authorizes them. NRS 78.235(4)-(5) covers that authorization, a statement within a reasonable time, and a confirmation within 10 days after a written request is received.
How fast must Nevada confirm an uncertificated position?
Within 10 days after receipt of a written request. That phrase is the confirmed text of NRS 78.235(4)-(5). The initial statement is owed within a reasonable time, which is a different clock.
What can a Nevada corporation require when a certificate is lost?
NRS 78.235(6) allows a new certificate and allows the corporation to require a bond or other security sufficient to indemnify it.
Does NRS 78.235 require par value to be printed on the certificate?
The confirmed summary of NRS 78.235(1) does not. It confirms the entitlement, the designated signers, and that bearer form is void.
Which catalog set is aimed at uncertificated Nevada shares?
The electronic set is $21.00 for 12 certificates in file form. The board authorization and the 10-day confirmation still come from NRS 78.235(4)-(5), not from the file.
Statutes last checked November 3, 2026. Official text: NRS 78.235.