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NV Rev Stat § 452.030 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.030 - Owner to keep cemetery in orderly condition; enforcement authority of board of county commissioners and district attorney; transfer of title of cemetery to city or county.

  1. Every owner of a cemetery shall keep the same in an orderly condition, and authority is conferred on the board of county commissioners of each county to make such rules as will carry out the intent of this section.  2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, in addition to any action that may be taken pursuant to the rules described in subsection 1, the district attorney of the county in which a cemetery is located or a relative of any person interred in a cemetery may bring an action in a court of competent jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of subsection 1. If the court finds that the owner of the cemetery has failed to keep the cemetery in an orderly condition, the court may:  (a) Order the owner of the cemetery to take any action necessary to bring the cemetery into such a condition; or  (b) If the court also determines that continued ownership of the cemetery by the owner is not in accordance with the health, safety, comfort or welfare of the public, transfer title to the cemetery to the city or, if the cemetery is located in an unincorporated area of a county, the county in which the cemetery is located, if the city or county accepts such a transfer of title.  3. A city or county to which title of a cemetery is transferred pursuant to this section shall:  (a) Operate the cemetery;  (b) Lease the cemetery to a cemetery authority to operate the cemetery;   (c) Enter into a contract with a cemetery authority to operate the cemetery; or  (d) Transfer title of the cemetery to a nonprofit organization acting as the cemetery authority of the cemetery.  4. The provisions of subsection 2 do not apply to a cemetery owned by a city or county.  [3:166:1913; 1919 RL p. 2644; NCL § 977] — (NRS A 2017, 328)
NV Rev Stat § 452.050 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.050 - Authority to provide endowment care; permit from Administrator; exempt cemeteries; handling of funds.

  1. Every cemetery authority operating a cemetery which is not exempt pursuant to subsection 2 shall place its cemetery under endowment care and establish, maintain and operate an endowment care fund after having first applied for and received a permit from the Administrator.  2. A cemetery is exempt from the provisions of subsection 1 if:  (a) It was maintained as a cemetery on July 1, 1971; or  (b) It is owned and operated by a governmental agency, church or benevolent or fraternal organization not operated for profit.  Nothing contained in this subsection shall prohibit any cemetery authority from electing to come under the provisions of subsection 1.  3. Endowment care funds and special care funds may be commingled for investment and the money disbursed therefrom must be divided between the endowment care funds and special care funds in the proportion that each fund contributed to the principal sum invested. The funds must be held in the name of the cemetery authority.  [1:138:1953] — (NRS A 1961, 116; 1971, 2073; 2017, 1202)
NV Rev Stat § 452.060 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.060 - Investment of principal of funds: Disposition of income; separate records for funds required; duties of trustee; authority of cemetery authority to operate fund as unitrust or change method, rate or frequency of disbursements.

  1. The principal of all funds for endowment care must be invested and the money disbursed from an endowment care fund must be used for the care, maintenance and embellishment of the cemetery, in accordance with the provisions of law and the resolutions, bylaws, rules and regulations or other actions or instruments of the cemetery authority, and for no other purpose. Endowment care funds and special care funds must be maintained separate and distinct from all other funds and the trustees shall keep separate records thereof.  2. The trustee of the endowment care fund shall:  (a) Create a reserve from which principal losses may be replaced by setting aside a reasonable percentage of the income from the fund.  (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, make monthly disbursements of the income earned from the fund to the cemetery authority.  (c) Pay all capital gains taxes imposed on the fund from the principal of the fund.  3. On January 1 of any calendar year, a cemetery authority may, by giving written notice to the trustee of the endowment care fund and the Administrator of its intention to do so at least 30 days before that date:  (a) Operate the fund as a unitrust subject to the provisions of NRS 452.165 or cease operating the fund in that manner;  (b) Change the method or rate of disbursements from the fund; or  (c) Change the frequency of disbursements from the fund. Money may be disbursed from an endowment care fund to the cemetery authority on a monthly, quarterly, semiannual or annual basis.  [2:138:1953] — (NRS A 2017, 1203)
NV Rev Stat § 452.070 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.070 - Authority may collect fee from purchaser of plot for maintenance of cemetery.

The cemetery authority may from time to time adopt plans for the general care, maintenance and embellishment of its cemetery, and charge and collect from all subsequent purchasers of plots such reasonable sums as, in the judgment of the cemetery authority, will aggregate a fund, the money disbursed from which will provide care, maintenance and embellishment.  [3:138:1953] — (NRS A 2017, 1203)
NV Rev Stat § 452.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.080 - Agreement for endowment care.

Upon payment of the purchase price and the amount fixed as a proportionate contribution for endowment care, there may be included in the deed of conveyance or by separate instrument an agreement to use the money disbursed from such endowment care fund for the care, maintenance and embellishment, in accordance with the plan adopted, of the cemetery and its appurtenances to the proportionate extent the income received by the cemetery authority from the contribution will permit.  [4:138:1953] — (NRS A 2017, 1203)
NV Rev Stat § 452.090 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.090 - Agreement concerning maintenance of plot.

Upon the application of an owner of any plot, and upon the payment by the owner of the amount fixed as a reasonable and proportionate contribution for endowment care a cemetery authority may enter into an agreement with the owner to use the money disbursed from such fund for the care of his or her plot and its appurtenances.  [5:138:1953] — (NRS A 2017, 1203)
NV Rev Stat § 452.100 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.100 - Trustees of endowment care fund: Appointment; right of director to serve; limitation on compensation; appointment of bank or trust company as sole trustee.

  1. The cemetery authority may appoint a board of trustees of not less than three in number as trustees of its endowment care fund. The members of the board of trustees shall hold office subject to the direction of the cemetery authority.  2. The directors of a cemetery authority, if any, may be the trustee of its endowment care fund. When the fund is in the care of the directors as a board of trustees, the secretary of the cemetery authority shall act as its secretary and keep a true record of all of its proceedings.  3. No sum in excess of 5 percent of the income derived from the fund in any year shall be paid as compensation to the board of trustees for its services as trustee.  4. In lieu of the appointment of a board of trustees of its endowment care fund, any cemetery authority may appoint as sole trustee of its endowment care fund any bank or trust company qualified under the laws of the State of Nevada to engage in the trust business.  [6:138:1953]
NV Rev Stat § 452.110 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.110 - Bequests to fund; fund and contributions for charitable purposes; gifts not invalidated by uncertainty of beneficiaries; fund not subject to rule against perpetuities.

  1. A cemetery authority which has established an endowment care fund may take, receive and hold as a part of or incident to the fund any property, real, personal or mixed, bequeathed, devised, granted, given or otherwise contributed to it for its endowment care fund.  2. The endowment care fund and all payments or contributions to it are hereby expressly permitted as and for charitable and eleemosynary purposes. Endowment care is a provision for the discharge of a duty due from the persons contributing to the persons interred and to be interred in the cemetery, and a provision for the benefit and protection of the public by preserving and keeping cemeteries from becoming unkept and places of reproach and desolation in the communities in which they are situated.  3. No payment, gift, grant, bequest or other contribution for general endowment care is invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as beneficiaries, nor is the fund or any contribution to it invalid as violating any law against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation of title to property.  [7:138:1953]
NV Rev Stat § 452.120 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.120 - Requirements for deposit by endowment care cemetery.

An endowment care cemetery shall deposit in its endowment care fund, no later than 30 days following the end of the month in which the final payment is received for the sale of a grave, lawn crypt space, niche or mausoleum crypt, not less than the following amounts for interment spaces and memorial markers and monuments sold or disposed of:  1. Five dollars per square foot for each grave space.  2. Five dollars per square foot for each lawn crypt space.  3. Forty dollars for each single niche in a columbarium or mausoleum.  4. One hundred twenty-five dollars for each single adult mausoleum crypt.  5. One hundred twenty-five dollars for the first adult crypt of a tandem companion mausoleum crypt.  6. One hundred dollars for each additional crypt of a tandem companion mausoleum crypt.  7. Sixty dollars for each mausoleum crypt which is less than one-half the size of an adult crypt as measured in cubic feet.  8. A sum equal to 20 percent of the cost of each privately built mausoleum crypt.  9. Ten dollars per square foot for each lawn space niche.  10. Twelve cents per square inch of top surface face for each memorial marker and for each foundation for an upright monument.  11. Twelve cents per square inch of top surface face for each memorial lawn niche marker.  [8:138:1953] — (NRS A 1971, 2073; 1989, 1088; 2017, 1204)
NV Rev Stat § 452.130 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.130 - Additional deposit required before disposition of plot.

  1. In addition to the requirements of NRS 452.120, any endowment care cemetery hereafter established shall also have deposited in its endowment care fund or maintenance fund the additional sum of $25,000 or have deposited such sum in a maintenance fund as required by NRS 452.120 before disposing or making a sale of any space specified in NRS 452.120.  2. When the endowment care fund or maintenance fund has $75,000 on deposit, the initial $25,000 may be withdrawn.  3. The endowment care fund or maintenance fund once having reached $50,000 shall not be decreased below such amount.  [9:138:1953] — (NRS A 1971, 2073)
NV Rev Stat § 452.140 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.140 - Endowment care cemetery may contain area without endowment care; requirements.

  1. A cemetery which otherwise complies with NRS 452.120 may be designated an endowment care cemetery even though it contains a small section which may be sold without endowment care, if the section is separately set off from the remainder of the cemetery and if signs are kept prominently placed around the section designating the same as a "Nonendowment care section" in legible black lettering at least 4 inches high. There shall be printed at the head of all contracts, agreements, statements, receipts and certificates of ownership or deeds referring to plots in the section the phrase "Nonendowment care."  2. Subsection 1 applies only to cemeteries existing on July 1, 1971.  [10:138:1953] — (NRS A 1971, 2074; 2017, 1204)
NV Rev Stat § 452.150 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.150 - Requirements for endowment or nonendowment care cemetery: Posting of signs; heading and contents; notice of nonendowment care on contracts and publications; revision and verification of signs and report.

  1. Each endowment care cemetery shall post in a conspicuous place in the office or offices where sales are conducted and in a conspicuous place at or near the entrance of the cemetery or its administration building and readily accessible to the public, a legible sign which shall contain the following information in the order and manner set forth below:  (a) A heading containing the words "Endowment care," which shall appear in a minimum of 48-point black type.  (b) This is an endowment care interment property.  2. Each nonendowment care cemetery shall post in a conspicuous place in the office or offices where sales are conducted and in a conspicuous place at or near the entrance of the cemetery or its administration building and readily accessible to the public, a legible sign which shall contain the following information in the order and manner set forth below:  (a) A heading containing the words "Nonendowment care."  (b) This is a nonendowment care interment property.  3. There shall be printed at the head of all contracts, agreements, statements, receipts, literature and other publications of nonendowment care cemeteries the following: "This institution is operated as a ‘nonendowment care’ interment property."  4. All the information appearing on the signs and report filed in the cemetery office shall be revised annually and verified by the president and secretary, or two officers authorized by the cemetery authority.  5. As used in this section, "nonendowment care cemetery" means a cemetery that is not required by NRS 452.050 to establish and maintain an endowment care fund and does not elect, pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 452.050, to come under the provisions of that section.  [11:138:1953] — (NRS A 2017, 1204)
NV Rev Stat § 452.160 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.160 - Use of funds; authorized investments; annual financial statements.

  1. Endowment care funds must not be used for any purpose other than to provide for the reserves authorized by law and for the endowment care of the cemetery in accordance with the resolutions, bylaws, rules and regulations or other actions or instruments of the cemetery authority.  2. The funds must be invested and reinvested in:  (a) Bonds of the United States;  (b) Bonds of this state or the bonds of other states;  (c) Bonds of counties or municipalities of any state;  (d) With the approval of the Administrator, first mortgages or first trust deeds on improved real estate;  (e) Deposits in any bank, credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank that is federally insured or insured by a private insurer approved pursuant to NRS 672.755; or  (f) With the written approval of the Administrator, any investment which would be proper under the provisions of NRS 164.700 to 164.775, inclusive.  Pending investment as provided in this subsection, such funds may be deposited in an account in any savings bank, credit union or savings and loan association which is qualified to do business in the State of Nevada and which is federally insured or insured by a private insurer approved pursuant to NRS 672.755.  3. Each cemetery authority operating an endowment care cemetery shall submit to the Administrator annually, on a form prescribed and adopted by the Administrator, a financial statement of the condition of its endowment care fund. The statement must be accompanied by a fee of $10. If the statement is not received by the Administrator, he or she may, after giving 10 days’ notice, revoke the cemetery authority’s certificate of authority.  [12:138:1953] — (NRS A 1960, 337; 1971, 2074; 1983, 139; 1987, 1270; 1999, 1498; 2003, 1982; 2017, 1205)
NV Rev Stat § 452.165 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.165 - Operation of endowment care fund as unitrust: Written investment policy; maximum amount of disbursements; trustee prohibited from making disbursement in certain circumstances; authority of Administrator to prohibit disbursement.

  1. The trustee of an endowment care fund that is operating as a unitrust shall adopt a written investment policy that supports the growth of the fund.  2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the trustee of an endowment care fund that is operating as a unitrust may disburse to the cemetery authority during a calendar year an amount not to exceed the sum of 5 percent of the value of the endowment care fund at the beginning of the calendar year and any additional taxes or fees imposed on the distribution.  3. The trustee of an endowment care fund that is operating as a unitrust shall not make a disbursement to the cemetery authority from the fund if, after making the disbursement, the value of the fund would be less than 80 percent of the value of the fund at the end of the immediately preceding calendar year.  4. The Administrator may prohibit the trustee of an endowment care fund that is operating as a unitrust from making a disbursement to the cemetery authority or limit the amount of such a disbursement if the Administrator determines, based on the value of the fund, that the principal of the fund is not adequately protected. For the purposes of this subsection, the value of the fund must be determined at the end of the calendar year by averaging, over the preceding 3 years or during the period of the trust’s existence, whichever is less, both the income and the principal of the trust.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 1202)
NV Rev Stat § 452.170 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.170 - Endowment care fund: Acceptance of gifts; uses; contributions for charitable purposes; gifts not invalidated by uncertainty of beneficiaries; rule against perpetuities inapplicable.

  1. A cemetery authority which has established an endowment care fund may also take and hold any property bequeathed, granted, or given to it in trust to apply the principal, or proceeds, or income to either or all of the following purposes:  (a) Improvement or embellishment of all or any part of the cemetery or any lot in it.  (b) Erection, renewal, repair or preservation of any monument, fence, building, or other structure in the cemetery.  (c) Planting or cultivation of trees, shrubs or plants in or around any part of the cemetery.  (d) Special care or ornamenting of any part of any plot, section or building in the cemetery.  (e) Any purpose or use not inconsistent with the purpose for which the cemetery was established or is maintained.  2. The sums paid in or contributed to the fund authorized by this section are hereby expressly permitted as and for a charitable and eleemosynary purpose. Such contributions are a provision for the discharge of a duty due from the persons contributing to the person or persons interred or to be interred in the cemetery, and likewise a provision for the benefit and protection of the public by preserving, beautifying, and keeping cemeteries from becoming unkept and places of reproach and desolation in the communities in which they are situated. No payment, gift, grant, bequest, or other contribution for such purpose is invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as beneficiaries in the instruments creating the fund, nor is the fund or any contribution to it invalid as violating any law against perpetuities or the suspension of the power of alienation of title to property.  [13:138:1953]
NV Rev Stat § 452.180 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.180 - Misrepresentations concerning endowment care fund; penalties; investigation by Administrator; applicability.

  1. It is unlawful for a cemetery authority, its officers, employees or agents, or a seller or agent certified or licensed pursuant to NRS 689.450 to 689.595, inclusive, to represent that an endowment care fund or any other fund set up for maintaining care is perpetual or permanent, or to sell, offer for sale or advertise any plot under representation that the plot is under endowment care, before an endowment care fund has been established for the cemetery in which the plot is situated. Any person violating any of the provisions of NRS 452.050 to 452.180, inclusive, is personally liable for all damages resulting to any person by reason of such violation, and upon conviction thereof is guilty of a misdemeanor.  2. The Administrator, for the purpose of ascertaining the assets, conditions and affairs of any endowment care cemetery, may examine the books, records, documents and assets of any endowment care cemetery operating, or being organized to operate as such a cemetery, in the State of Nevada, and may make whatever other investigations as may be necessary to determine that the cemetery is complying fully with the provisions of NRS 452.050 to 452.180, inclusive.  3. If, after an examination or investigation, the Administrator has just cause to believe that a cemetery granted a permit under the provisions of NRS 452.050 to 452.180, inclusive, has failed to comply with the provisions and requirements of NRS 452.050 to 452.180, inclusive, and any regulations adopted thereunder, the Administrator may, after due notice and hearing, if the Administrator finds that the cemetery authority has violated those requirements or regulations, revoke or refuse to renew the permit of that cemetery authority and refer the violation to the Attorney General to determine if further action should be taken under subsection 1.  4. The provisions of NRS 679B.230 to 679B.300, inclusive, apply to any examination conducted under this section. Unless the context requires that a provision apply only to insurers, any reference in those sections to "insurer" must be replaced by a reference to "cemetery authority" or the person being examined.  [14:138:1953; A 1955, 290] — (NRS A 1961, 117; 1967, 583; 1971, 2074; 1987, 1270; 2017, 1205)
NV Rev Stat § 452.200 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 452 - Cemeteries|NRS 452.200 - Liability and penalty for unauthorized use or investment of funds.

Any member of a board of trustees or any officer or director of a corporation or association violating any of the provisions of NRS 452.160 shall be personally liable therefor, and shall upon conviction thereof be guilty of a misdemeanor.  [2:40:1931;1931 NCL § 981.01] — (NRS A 1967, 583; 1971, 2075)