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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 450B - Emergency Medical Services › NRS 450B.855 - Establishment of program to provide peer support counseling to emergency response employees; duties of nonprofit organization that establishes program and Division.

1. A governmental entity which licenses and regulates emergency response employees may, within the limits of available money, enter into a contract with a nonprofit organization to establish a program to provide peer support counseling to emergency response employees.
2. A nonprofit organization that establishes a program to provide peer support counseling to emergency response employees pursuant to subsection 1 must:
(a) Establish and operate a toll-free hotline for emergency response employees to call if such employees are experiencing mental health issues as a result of the nature of their work.
(b) Establish and maintain a network of peer support counselors to provide peer support counseling to persons who call the toll-free hotline established pursuant to paragraph (a).
(c) Establish and maintain an Internet website that provides:
(1) Information on mental health issues associated with emergency response work, including, without limitation, stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, addictive disorders and self-medication; and
(2) Information concerning local and national support groups for mental health issues.
3. The Division shall post on an Internet website maintained by the Division:
(a) The telephone number of each toll-free hotline established pursuant to subsection 2; and
(b) Information concerning local and national support groups for mental health issues.
4. To the extent money is available, the Division shall collect information regarding suicide and attempted suicide among emergency response employees and report that information to the Chief Medical Officer or his or her designee. Such a report must not include any confidential or privileged information.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 338)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 450B - Emergency Medical Services › NRS 450B.860 - Volunteer ambulance drivers and attendants: Discharge from employment; civil action; disclosure to employer.

1. Any person or other entity who is an employer or is vested with the power to discharge or recommend the discharge of a person who serves as a volunteer ambulance driver or attendant shall not deprive the person performing that service of his or her employment as a consequence of his or her action as a volunteer ambulance driver or attendant.
2. A person discharged in violation of subsection 1 may commence a civil action against the person’s employer and obtain:
(a) Wages and benefits lost as a result of the violation;
(b) An order of reinstatement without loss of position, seniority or benefits;
(c) Damages equal to the amount of lost wages and benefits; and
(d) Reasonable attorney’s fees fixed by the court.
3. Any applicant for employment who is, and any employee who becomes, a volunteer ambulance driver or attendant must disclose that fact to his or her prospective or present employer.
4. As used in this section, "volunteer ambulance driver or attendant" means a person who is a driver of or attendant on an ambulance owned or operated by:
(a) A nonprofit organization that provides volunteer ambulance service in any county, city or town in this State; or
(b) A political subdivision of this State.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 467)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.005 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined.

As used in NRS 451.010 to 451.340, 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; 2023, 294)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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 451.500 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; 2023, 294, 1113)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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]
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.140 - Mailing of copy of notice to owner of plot or heir of person interred.

1. A copy of the notice must be mailed to every person who owns, holds, or has the right of interment in, any plot in the cemetery or part affected, whose name appears upon the records of the cemetery or upon the real property assessment roll of the county in which the cemetery is located. The notice must be addressed to the last known post office address of the plot owner as it appears from the records of the cemetery or county assessor, and if the owner’s address does not appear or is not known, then to him or her in the city in which the cemetery is situated.
2. The notice must also be mailed to each known living heir at law of any person whose remains are interred in the cemetery, if his or her address is known.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 460; A 1979, 1562)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.150 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative.

At any time before the date fixed for the removal of remains by the cemetery authority, any relative or friend of any person whose remains are interred in the cemetery from which removals are to be made may give the cemetery authority written notice that the relative or friend desires to be present when the remains are disinterred or are reinterred.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 460)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.160 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Contents.

The notice to the cemetery authority shall specify:
1. The name of the person whose remains are to be disinterred.
2. As accurately as possible, the plot where the remains are interred.
3. The date of interment.
4. An address at which the required notices may be given by the cemetery authority.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 461)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.180 - Notice by cemetery authority; manner of service on friend or relative.

After receipt of such notice before the date fixed for the removal of the remains by the cemetery authority, it shall give written notice to the person requesting it of the time when the remains shall be disinterred. This notice shall be given by delivery, or by mail, to the person requesting it at least 10 days prior to the date specified for the disinterment of the remains.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 461)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.190 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Effect.

Whenever a request of notice is given by a relative or friend, the cemetery authority shall not disinter the remains referred to until the notice of the time of disinterment is given the relative or friend, as provided in NRS 451.150 to 451.180, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 461)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.260 - Removal of human remains.

After the completion of notice and after the expiration of the period specified in the notice, the cemetery authority may cause the removal of all human remains interred in the cemetery or portion from which the remains have been ordered removed, and may reinter such remains in other cemeteries in this state where interments are permitted, without further notice to any person claiming any interest in the cemetery, or portion affected, or in the remains interred therein.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 462; A 2001, 989)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.270 - Manner and time of reinterment.

1. The remains of each person reinterred shall be placed in a separate and suitable receptacle and decently and respectfully interred not later than 1 year after the date on which the remains are disinterred under rules and regulations adopted by the cemetery authority making the removal.
2. A receptacle shall be deemed suitable for the purposes of subsection 1 if the receptacle:
(a) Is capable of withstanding weather and movement of the earth that may affect the receptacle for at least 100 years; or
(b) Has been approved by the closest living relative of the decedent.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 462; A 2017, 328)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.280 - Disposal of land by cemetery authority; authority to sell and encumber.

Whenever human remains have been ordered removed under the provisions of NRS 451.069 to 451.330, inclusive, and the cemetery authority has made and published notice of the determination to remove such remains, the portions of the cemetery in which no interments have been made, and those portions from which all human remains have been removed, may be sold, mortgaged or otherwise encumbered as security for any loan or loans made to the cemetery authority.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 462; A 1979, 1562; 2001, 989)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.290 - Sale or encumbrance of land; confirmation by district court of sale by cemetery corporation or association.

No order of any court shall be required prior to the making of any such sale, mortgage or other encumbrance of such lands; but any sale of such cemetery lands made by any cemetery corporation or association controlled by a governing body shall be fairly conducted and the price paid shall be fair and reasonable and all such sales shall be confirmed, as to the fairness and reasonableness of the price paid, by the district court of the county in which the lands are situated.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 462)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.300 - Petition for confirmation; notice of hearing.

Petitions for confirmation of sales shall be made to the district court of the county in which such lands are situated, and the clerk of the court shall fix a day for and give notice of hearing by publication on three dates of publication prior to the hearing, and if the newspaper is published oftener than once a week there shall be at least 10 days from the first to last dates of publication (both first and last days included).
(Added to NRS by 1961, 462; A 1977, 274)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.310 - Confirmation of sale agreed upon before receipt of notice of determination that further maintenance of cemetery is not in accordance with health, safety, comfort or welfare of public.

If, before receiving notice of any determination made by a governmental authority pursuant to NRS 451.070, any cemetery authority has in good faith entered into any agreement to sell or has granted any option to buy all or any portion of its cemetery lands for a price reasonable at the time the agreement to sell was made, or the option granted, the district court shall confirm the sale at the price stipulated in the agreement to sell or the option to buy.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 462; A 1979, 1562; 2001, 990)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.320 - Declaration of removal by cemetery authority: Filing; acknowledgment; effect of subsequent conveyance.

1. After the removal of all human remains interred in any part of the whole of the cemetery lands, the cemetery authority may file for record in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the lands are situated a written declaration reciting that all human remains have been removed from the lands described in the declaration.
2. The declaration shall be acknowledged in the manner of the acknowledgment of deeds to real property by the president and secretary, or other corresponding officers of the cemetery authority, or by the person owning or controlling the cemetery lands, and thereafter any deed, mortgage or other conveyance of any part of such lands is conclusive evidence in favor of any grantee or mortgagee named in it, and his or her successor or assigns, of the fact of the complete removal of all human remains therefrom.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 463)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.330 - Removal of dedication; notice of hearing and proof.

After all remains have been removed from a cemetery in accordance with the provisions of NRS 451.069 to 451.330, inclusive, the dedication may be removed from all or any part of such cemetery lands by an order and decree of the district court of the county in which the property is situated, in a proceeding brought for that purpose and upon notice of hearing and proof satisfactory to the court:
1. That all bodies have been removed, or that no interments were made; and
2. That the property is no longer used or required for interment.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 463; A 1979, 1563; 2001, 990)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.340 - Disinterment by heir or relative must comply with requirements of religious denomination, society or church; authority of officer, representative or agent of church or religious society.

1. The heirs, relatives or friends of any decedent whose remains have been interred in any cemetery owned, governed or controlled by any religious corporation or by any church or religious society of any denomination or by any corporation sole administering temporalities of any religious denomination, society or church, or owned, governed or controlled by any person or persons as trustee or trustees for any religious denomination, society or church shall not disinter, remove, reinter or dispose of any such remains except in accordance with the rules, regulations and discipline of such religious denomination, society or church.
2. The officers, representatives or agents of the church or religious society shall be the sole judge of the requirements of the rules, regulations and discipline of such religious denomination, society or church.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 463)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.500 - Short title.

NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, may be cited as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 158; A 1977, 449; 1979, 351; 1989, 433; 2007, 794)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.503 - Applicability of Act.

NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, apply to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 432; A 2007, 794; 2019, 2766; 2023, 1113)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.505 - Uniformity of application and construction.

In applying and construing the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 158; A 1989, 433; 2007, 794)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.510 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 451.511 to 451.5545, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 158; A 1987, 316; 1989, 433; 1991, 482; 2007, 794; 2019, 2766; 2023, 1113)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.512 - "Agent" defined.

"Agent" means a natural person:
1. Authorized to make health-care decisions on the principal’s behalf by a power of attorney for health care; or
2. Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal’s behalf by any other record signed by the principal.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 781)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.520 - "Decedent" defined.

"Decedent" means a deceased natural person whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, a fetus.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 158; A 1989, 433; 2007, 794)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.522 - "Disinterested witness" defined.

"Disinterested witness" means a witness other than the spouse, child, parent, sibling, grandchild, grandparent or guardian of the natural person who makes, amends, revokes or refuses to make an anatomical gift, or another adult who exhibited special care and concern for the natural person. The term does not include a person to which an anatomical gift could pass under NRS 451.571.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 781)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.523 - "Document of gift" defined.

"Document of gift" means a donor card or other record used to make an anatomical gift. The term includes a statement or symbol on a driver’s license, identification card or donor registry.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 431; A 1991, 482, 2172; 2003, 828; 2007, 794)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.526 - "Donor registry" defined.

"Donor registry" means a database that contains records of anatomical gifts and amendments to or revocations of anatomical gifts. The term includes, without limitation, a donor registry that has entered into a contract with the Department of Motor Vehicles pursuant to NRS 483.340 or 483.840.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 781)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.540 - "Person" defined.

"Person" means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited-liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 158; A 1985, 517; 2007, 795)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.5475 - "Prospective donor" defined.

"Prospective donor" means a natural person who is dead or near death and has been determined by a procurement organization to have a part that could be medically suitable for transplantation, therapy, research or education. The term does not include a natural person who has made a refusal.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 781)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.550 - "State" defined.

"State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 158; A 1989, 433; 2007, 795)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.553 - "Technician" defined.

"Technician" means a natural person determined to be qualified to remove or process parts by an appropriate organization that is licensed, accredited or regulated under federal or state law. The term includes an enucleator.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 431; A 2007, 795)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.556 - Persons authorized to make anatomical gift before death of donor.

Subject to NRS 451.562, an anatomical gift of a donor’s body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education in the manner provided in NRS 451.558 by:
1. The donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and is:
(a) Emancipated; or
(b) Authorized under state law to apply for a driver’s license because the donor is at least 16 years of age;
2. An agent of the donor, unless the power of attorney for health care or other record prohibits the agent from making an anatomical gift;
3. A parent of the donor, if the donor is an unemancipated minor; or
4. The donor’s guardian.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 782)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.558 - Manner of making anatomical gift before death of donor.

1. A donor may make an anatomical gift:
(a) By authorizing a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor’s driver’s license or identification card;
(b) In a will;
(c) During a terminal illness or injury of the donor, by any form of communication addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness; or
(d) As provided in subsection 2.
2. A donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under NRS 451.556 may make a gift by a donor card or other record signed by the donor or other person making the gift or by authorizing that a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift be included on a donor registry. If the donor or other person is physically unable to sign a record, the record may be signed by another natural person at the direction of the donor or other person and must:
(a) Be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and
(b) State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in paragraph (a).
3. An anatomical gift made in the manner described in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 by a donor who is at least 16 years of age but less than 18 years of age is valid and may not be revoked by a parent or guardian if the donor and his or her parent or guardian sign a form prescribed by the Department of Motor Vehicles which indicates that unless the anatomical gift is amended or revoked by the donor before his or her death, the anatomical gift may not be amended or revoked by the parent or guardian of the donor.
4. Revocation, suspension, expiration or cancellation of a driver’s license or identification card upon which an anatomical gift is indicated does not invalidate the gift.
5. An anatomical gift made by will takes effect upon the donor’s death whether or not the will is probated. Invalidation of the will after the donor’s death does not invalidate the gift.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 782; A 2013, 435)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.559 - Amending or revoking anatomical gift before death of donor.

1. Subject to NRS 451.562, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under NRS 451.556 may amend or revoke an anatomical gift by:
(a) A record signed by:
(1) The donor;
(2) The other person; or
(3) Subject to subsection 2, another natural person acting at the direction of the donor or the other person if the donor or other person is physically unable to sign; or
(b) A later-executed document of gift that amends or revokes a previous anatomical gift or portion of an anatomical gift, either expressly or by inconsistency.
2. A record signed pursuant to subparagraph (3) of paragraph (a) of subsection 1 must:
(a) Be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the donor or the other person; and
(b) State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in paragraph (a).
3. Subject to NRS 451.562, a donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under NRS 451.556 may revoke an anatomical gift by the destruction or cancellation of the document of gift, or the portion of the document of gift used to make the gift, with the intent to revoke the gift.
4. A donor may amend or revoke an anatomical gift that was not made in a will by any form of communication during a terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.
5. A donor who makes an anatomical gift in a will may amend or revoke the gift in the manner provided for amendment or revocation of wills or as provided in subsection 1.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 783)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies › NRS 451.561 - Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal.

1. A natural person may refuse to make an anatomical gift of his or her body or part by:
(a) A record signed by:
(1) Him or her; or
(2) Subject to subsection 2, another natural person acting at his or her direction if he or she is physically unable to sign;
(b) The natural person’s will, whether or not the will is admitted to probate or invalidated after his or her death; or
(c) Any form of communication made by the natural person during his or her terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness.
2. A record signed pursuant to subparagraph (2) of paragraph (a) of subsection 1 must:
(a) Be witnessed by at least two adults, at least one of whom is a disinterested witness, who have signed at the request of the natural person; and
(b) State that it has been signed and witnessed as provided in paragraph (a).
3. A natural person who has made a refusal may amend or revoke the refusal:
(a) In the manner provided in subsection 1 for making a refusal;
(b) By subsequently making an anatomical gift pursuant to NRS 451.558 that is inconsistent with the refusal; or
(c) By destroying or cancelling the record evidencing the refusal, or the portion of the record used to make the refusal, with the intent to revoke the refusal.
4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 8 of NRS 451.562, in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the natural person set forth in the refusal, a natural person’s unrevoked refusal to make an anatomical gift of his or her body or part bars all other persons from making an anatomical gift of the natural person’s body or part.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 783)