Title 40

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…

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 p…

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 …

NRS 451.024 Persons authorized to order burial or cremation; order of priority of such persons; acceptance of legal and financial responsibility does not give rise to claim against estate or other person; transfer of authority to another person; unavailability of authorized perso…

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 whos…

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 f…

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 l…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 leasi…

NRS 451.070 Court order required for disinterment and removal of human remains; petition; hearing; maintenance of records by cemetery authority; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 7, a cemetery authority shall not disinter or remove human remains interred i…

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 sell, mortgage o…

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 existi…

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…

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)

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 cemet…

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 …

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 inter…

NRS 451.170 Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Manner of delivery. The notice may be delivered, or forwarded by registered or certified mail, to the office or principal place of business of the cemetery authority proposing to make removals. (Added to NRS by 1961,…

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 sh…

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, a…

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 remo…

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 …

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 …

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 m…

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 date…

NRS 451.310 Confirmation of sale agreed upon before receipt of court order authorizing the disinterment and removal of human remains. If, before receiving an order authorizing the disinterment and removal of human remains interred in all or any part of a cemetery pursuant to NRS …

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 co…

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 de…

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 interr…

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)

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)

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 196…

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, 43…

NRS 451.511 “Adult” defined. “Adult” means a natural person who is at least 18 years of age. (Added to NRS by 2007, 780)

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…

NRS 451.513 “Anatomical gift” defined. “Anatomical gift” means a donation of all or part of a human body to take effect after the donor’s death for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education. (Added to NRS by 1989, 431; A 2007, 794)

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. (Ad…

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 exh…

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…

NRS 451.525 “Donor” defined. “Donor” means a natural person whose body or part is the subject of an anatomical gift. (Added to NRS by 1969, 158; A 1989, 433; 2007, 794)

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 …