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NV Rev Stat § 450B.870 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450B - Emergency Medical Services|NRS 450B.870 - Medical review committee entitled to autopsy records concerning death under review; sharing of information concerning subject of review; autopsy records are privileged.

  1. A medical review committee is entitled to access to any autopsy records relating to a death under review.  2. Each organization represented on a medical review committee to review the medical care or death of a person shall share with other members of the committee information in its possession concerning the person who is the subject of the review and any other information deemed by the organization to be pertinent to the review.  3. Any autopsy records provided to a medical review committee pursuant to this section are privileged records for the purposes of NRS 49.119 and 49.121.  4. As used in this section, "medical review committee" means a medical review committee of a county or district board of health that certifies, licenses or regulates providers of emergency medical services pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, but only when functioning as a peer review committee.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2478)
NV Rev Stat § 450B.900 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 450B - Emergency Medical Services|NRS 450B.900 - Penalties for violation.

  1. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.  2. In addition to any criminal penalty imposed, the Division may impose against any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter, an administrative penalty in an amount established by the State Board of Health by regulation.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1147; A 2011, 2513)
NV Rev Stat § 451.005 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.005 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined.

As used in NRS 451.010 to 451.470, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, "human remains" or "remains" means the body of a deceased person, and includes the body in any stage of decomposition and the cremated remains of a body.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 254; A 1969, 161; 2003, 1881; 2015, 569; 2017, 327)
NV Rev Stat § 451.007 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.007 - Requirements for determination.

  1. For legal and medical purposes, a person is dead if the person has sustained an irreversible cessation of:  (a) Circulatory and respiratory functions; or  (b) All functions of the person’s entire brain, including his or her brain stem.  2. A determination of death made under:  (a) Paragraph (a) of subsection 1 must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.  (b) Paragraph (b) of subsection 1 must be made in accordance with the applicable guidelines set forth in:  (1) "Evidence-based Guideline Update: Determining Brain Death in Adults: Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology," published June 8, 2010, by the American Academy of Neurology, or any subsequent revisions approved by the American Academy of Neurology or its successor organization; or  (2) "Guidelines for the Determination of Brain Death in Infants and Children: An Update of the 1987 Task Force Recommendations," published January 27, 2012, by the Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, or any subsequent revisions approved by the Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine or its successor organization.  (Added to NRS by 1979, 226; A 1985, 130; 2017, 1728)
NV Rev Stat § 451.008 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.008 - Consent not required for determination; prohibition on withholding or withdrawal of organ-sustaining treatment in certain circumstances; notice.

  1. A determination of the death of a person made pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 451.007 is a clinical decision that does not require the consent of the person’s authorized representative or the family member with the authority to consent or withhold consent.   2. Organ-sustaining treatment must not be withheld or withdrawn from a person determined to be dead pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 451.007 who is known to the attending physician to be:  (a) Pregnant, so long as it is probable that the fetus will develop to the point of live birth with continued application of organ-sustaining treatment; or  (b) A donor or potential donor of an anatomical gift, for the amount of time necessary to successfully recover the anatomical gift.  3. After a determination of the death of a person is made pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 451.007, reasonable efforts must be made:  (a) By the person’s provider of health care to notify a family member or other authorized representative of the person of the determination of death; and  (b) By the health care facility in which the determination of death was made to inform a family member or other authorized representative of the person that the potential costs of continuing to administer organ-sustaining treatment may become the responsibility of the person’s estate or family.  4. As used in this section:  (a) "Anatomical gift" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 451.513.  (b) "Organ-sustaining treatment" means a medical procedure or intervention conducted after a person has been determined to be dead pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 451.007 that serves only to prolong the viability of the organs of the person or a fetus carried by the person.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 1728)
NV Rev Stat § 451.010 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.010 - Dissection of dead human bodies: Limitations; penalty.

  1. The right to dissect the dead body of a human being is limited to cases:  (a) Specially provided by statute or by the direction or will of the deceased.  (b) Where a coroner is authorized under NRS 259.050 or an ordinance enacted pursuant to NRS 244.163 to hold an inquest upon the body, and then only as the coroner may authorize dissection.  (c) Where the spouse or next of kin charged by law with the duty of burial authorize dissection for the purpose of ascertaining the cause of death, and then only to the extent so authorized.  (d) Where authorized by the provisions of NRS 451.350 to 451.470, inclusive.  (e) Where authorized by the provisions of NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive.  2. Every person who makes, causes or procures to be made any dissection of the body of a human being, except as provided in subsection 1, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.  [1911 C&P § 208; RL § 6473; NCL § 10156] — (NRS A 1963, 198, 534; 1969, 161; 1989, 432; 2007, 793; 2017, 794)
NV Rev Stat § 451.015 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.015 - Commercial use of aborted embryo or fetus prohibited; penalty.

Any person who uses, or makes available for the use of another, the remains of an aborted embryo or fetus for any commercial purpose shall be fined not less than $250 nor more than $5,000.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1902)
NV Rev Stat § 451.020 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.020 - Burial or cremation within reasonable time after death; transportation and disposal of residue of cremated body.

  1. Except in cases of dissection provided for in NRS 451.010, and where a dead body shall rightfully be carried through or removed from the State for the purpose of burial elsewhere, every dead body of a human being lying within this state, and the remains of any dissected body after dissection, shall be decently buried or cremated within a reasonable time after death.  2. The residue resulting from the cremation of the body of a deceased person may be transported in this state in any manner, without any permit therefor, and may be disposed of in any manner desired, or directed by the decedent, by the person charged by law with the duty of burying the body.  [1911 C&P § 208; RL § 6473; NCL § 10156] — (NRS A 1969, 716)
NV Rev Stat § 451.023 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.023 - Responsibility of surviving spouse or parent for burial or cremation of deceased spouse or child.

The spouse of a minor child or the parent of an unmarried or otherwise unemancipated minor child shall be primarily responsible for the decent burial or cremation of his or her spouse or such child within a reasonable time after death.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 131; A 2017, 794)
NV Rev Stat § 451.025 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.025 - Reimbursement for burial expenses paid with public money.

If the governing body of any county, city or town within the State of Nevada must arrange for and order the decent burial of any person dying within such county, city or town, leaving a spouse or parent in whose custody such person remained at the time he or she died, which spouse or parent is not indigent and not otherwise eligible for assistance as a poor person and expenses for a decent burial have been paid out of public funds pursuant to such an order, the county, city or town must be reimbursed for its expenses of burial of the dead body of such person by the spouse or parent charged by law with the duty of burial.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 131; A 1983, 139; 2017, 794)
NV Rev Stat § 451.027 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.027 - Duty of county agency responsible for remains of indigent person believed to be veteran to report name of person to Department of Veterans Services; Department to determine eligibility for interment at national or veterans’ cemetery; disposition of remains; immunity from liability for certain acts or omissions.

  1. If the county agency that is responsible for interring or cremating the remains of indigent persons obtains custody of the unclaimed human remains of a deceased person whom the county agency knows, has reason to know or reasonably believes is a veteran, the county agency shall report the name of the deceased person to the Department of Veterans Services as soon as practicable after obtaining custody of the remains.  2. Upon receipt of a report made pursuant to subsection 1, the Department of Veterans Services shall determine whether the deceased person is a veteran who is eligible for interment at a national cemetery pursuant to 38 U.S.C. § 2402 or a veterans’ cemetery pursuant to NRS 417.210. The Department shall provide notice of the determination to the county agency.  3. If the Department of Veterans Services provides notice pursuant to subsection 2 to a county agency of a determination that a deceased person is a veteran who:  (a) Is eligible for interment at a national cemetery or a veterans’ cemetery, the county agency shall arrange for the proper disposition of the veteran’s remains with:  (1) A national cemetery or veterans’ cemetery; or  (2) The Department of Veterans Services.  (b) Is not eligible for interment at a national cemetery or a veterans’ cemetery and is indigent, the county agency shall cause the veteran’s remains to be decently interred or cremated in the county.   4. A county agency that is responsible for interring or cremating the remains of indigent persons is immune from civil or criminal liability for any act or omission with respect to complying with the provisions of this section.  5. As used in this section, "veteran" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 176A.090.  (Added to NRS by 2015, 568)
NV Rev Stat § 451.030 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.030 - Removal of remains for sale or dissection; purchases; punishment.

  1. A person who removes the dead body of a human being, or any part thereof, from a grave, vault or other place where it has been buried or deposited awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law, with the intent to sell it, or for the purpose of securing a reward for its return, or for dissection, or from malice or wantonness, is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.  2. A person who purchases or receives, except for burial or cremation, any such dead body, or any part thereof, knowing that it has been removed contrary to the provisions of subsection 1, is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.  3. A person who opens a grave or other place of interment, temporary or otherwise, or a building where such a dead body is deposited while awaiting burial or cremation, without authority of law, with the intent to remove the body or any part thereof, for the purpose of selling or demanding money for it, for dissection, from malice or wantonness, or with the intent to sell or remove the coffin or any part thereof or anything attached thereto, or any vestment or other article interred or intended to be interred with the body, is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.  [1911 C&P § 210; RL § 6475; NCL § 10158] — (NRS A 1967, 581; 1979, 1470; 1989, 576; 1995, 1279)
NV Rev Stat § 451.040 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.040 - Seizure of remains for debt; interference with dead body; penalty.

  1. Every person who shall arrest or attach the dead body of a human being upon a debt or demand, or shall detain or claim to detain it for any debt or demand or upon any pretended lien or charge, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  2. Every person who, without authority of law, shall obstruct or detain a person engaged in carrying or accompanying the dead body of a human being to a place of burial or cremation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  [1911 C&P § 211; RL § 6476; NCL § 10159]
NV Rev Stat § 451.045 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.045 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains within State.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 451.050, the local health officer may issue a permit for the disinterment or removal of human remains. The permit must indicate the name of the cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium or other place of burial where the remains will be interred, inurned or buried.  2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, a person in charge of a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium or other place of burial shall not disinter or remove or permit disinterment or removal of human remains unless the person has received a copy of such a permit.  3. A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.  4. A county coroner is not required to obtain a permit from the local health officer for the disinterment, removal or transportation of human remains while carrying out his or her duties as the county coroner.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 254; A 1989, 381)
NV Rev Stat § 451.050 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.050 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains out of State.

  1. Any person, company, association or corporation in this State who shall exhume or disinter, or who shall cause to be exhumed or disinterred, any human remains, or any part of such remains, which have been buried in the ground in this State, for the purpose of transporting the same to any other state or foreign country, except under the conditions provided in subsection 2, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  2. The boards of county commissioners of the several counties in which human remains are buried or interred, as provided in subsection 1, are authorized to grant and to issue written permits for the disinterment and removal of any such human remains referred to in subsection 1, whenever in their judgment the public health will not be endangered by such disinterment and removal; but no such permit shall be granted or issued under any circumstances or at any time where the person or persons buried or interred have died from or with any contagious or loathsome disease.  [1911 C&P § 287; RL § 6552; NCL § 10235] + [1911 C&P § 288; RL § 6553; NCL § 10236] — (NRS A 1967, 582)
NV Rev Stat § 451.060 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.060 - Penalties for noncompliance of common carrier.

  1. Any transportation company or common carrier transporting or carrying, or accepting through its agents or employees for transportation or carriage, the body of any deceased person, without an accompanying permit issued in accordance with law, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $250. If the death occurred outside of the State and the body is accompanied by a burial, removal or transit permit issued in accordance with the law or board of health regulations in force where the death occurred, such burial, removal or transit permit may be held to authorize the transportation or carriage of the body into or through the State.  2. Any railroad, transportation or express company which receives for transportation and shipment any dead human body, unless the body has been prepared by a regularly licensed embalmer of the State of Nevada, with the removal permit, his or her name and the number of the embalmer’s license attached thereon, and unless the body shall reach its destination within the boundaries of this state and within 30 hours from time of death, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.  [Part 10:28:1909; A 1917, 66; 1919 RL § 4454; NCL § 2674] + [Part 21:199:1911; RL § 2972; NCL § 5255] — (NRS A 1967, 582; 1979, 1470)
NV Rev Stat § 451.065 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.065 - Unlawful to require remains to be embalmed or otherwise prepared before disposition; exceptions; penalty.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, no crematory, funeral home, cemetery or other place that accepts human remains for disposition may require the remains to be embalmed or otherwise prepared before their disposition by cremation, interment or otherwise, or before their removal from or into any registration district.  2. The State Board of Health may require embalming or other preparations if necessary to protect the public.  3. If embalming is not required by the State Board of Health pursuant to subsection 2, the Nevada Funeral and Cemetery Services Board may authorize the embalming of a body if it determines that it is necessary to preserve the body and the crematory, funeral home, cemetery or other place that accepts human remains for disposition:  (a) Has held the body for at least 72 hours;  (b) Is unable to notify a member of the family or other authorized person to obtain approval to embalm the body; and  (c) Has no reason to believe that the family or other authorized person does not wish to have the body embalmed.  4. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 192; A 1977, 361; 1993, 2606; 1997, 2580; 2003, 1279)
NV Rev Stat § 451.067 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.067 - Designation of family cemetery; notification of Division of Public and Behavioral Health of designation.

  1. The board of county commissioners of a county whose population is less than 55,000 may adopt an ordinance allowing one or more natural persons to designate as a family cemetery an area of land owned by any of those persons for the interment in that area without charge of any member of the family of any of them or any other person.  2. Before the first interment in a family cemetery designated in accordance with an ordinance adopted pursuant to subsection 1, a member of the family or a representative of the family shall notify the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services of the designation of the family cemetery and its specific location on the land owned by the family.  (Added to NRS by 2001, 988; A 2011, 1277)
NV Rev Stat § 451.069 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.069 - "Cemetery authority" defined.

As used in NRS 451.069 to 451.330, inclusive, "cemetery authority" means any natural person, partnership, association, corporation or public entity, including the Nevada System of Higher Education or any cemetery district, owning or leasing the land or other property of a cemetery or operating a cemetery as a business in this State.  (Added to NRS by 1979, 1561; A 1993, 405; 2001, 988; 2017, 327)
NV Rev Stat § 451.070 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.070 - Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 451.075, a cemetery authority may order the disinterment and removal of all human remains interred in all or any part of any cemetery if:  1. A governmental authority other than the cemetery authority determines that:  (a) The maintenance of all or any part of the cemetery as a burial place for the human dead is not in accordance with the health, safety, comfort or welfare of the public;   (b) The cemetery authority is unable to restore the cemetery or part of the cemetery to a condition where the maintenance of the cemetery as a burial place for the human dead is in accordance with the health, safety, comfort and welfare of the public; and  (c) The cemetery authority is unable, at current market rates, to sell or lease the cemetery to or enter into a contract with another cemetery authority that will maintain the cemetery as a burial place for the human dead in accordance with the health, safety, comfort and welfare of the public; or   2. The cemetery authority determines that financial provision must be made for future care of gravesites within a specified area.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 459; A 1979, 1561; 2001, 989; 2017, 327)
NV Rev Stat § 451.075 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.075 - Prohibition on certain acts by cemetery authority concerning burial plot owned in fee simple.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, without limitation, any provision of NRS 451.069 to 451.330, inclusive, a cemetery authority shall not:  1. Order the disinterment and removal of human remains interred in a burial plot that is owned in fee simple by a person other than the cemetery authority; or  2. Sell, mortgage or encumber or require the sale, mortgage or encumbrance of such a burial plot.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 327)
NV Rev Stat § 451.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.080 - Regulations governing manner of removal and reinterment; time for removal and reinterment.

  1. The cemetery authority may prescribe reasonable regulations governing the manner of making disinterments and removals and providing for reinterment in a portion of the existing cemetery or in any other cemetery or for deposit of the remains in any memorial mausoleum or columbarium or for providing appropriate future care.  2. The cemetery authority must prescribe a reasonable time of not less than 1 year after the date on which it orders the disinterment and removal of remains pursuant to NRS 451.070, after which the cemetery authority may proceed to disinter and remove the remains and reinter them in a portion of the existing cemetery or another cemetery or deposit them in a memorial mausoleum or columbarium.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 459; A 1979, 1561; 2001, 989; 2017, 328)
NV Rev Stat § 451.110 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.110 - Notice of determination to remove human remains.

  1. Notice of a determination to remove the human remains from all or any part of any cemetery must be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city, or the county if the cemetery is in an unincorporated area, in which the cemetery or the portion from which removals are to be made is situated. Publication must be at least once a week for 4 consecutive weeks.  2. The notice must specify the period after which the cemetery authority may remove the remains.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 460; A 2001, 989)
NV Rev Stat § 451.130 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies|NRS 451.130 - Posting of copies of notice in cemetery.

Copies of the notice shall, within 10 days after the first publication, be posted in at least three conspicuous places in the cemetery or the portion from which removals are to be made.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 460)