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NRS 451.005 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined. - As used in NRS 451.010 to 451.470, inclusive, unless the...
NRS 451.007 - Requirements for determination. - 1. For legal and medical purposes, a person is dead...
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...
NRS 451.010 - Dissection of dead human bodies: Limitations; penalty. - 1. The right to dissect the dead body of a...
NRS 451.015 - Commercial use of aborted embryo or fetus prohibited; penalty. - Any person who uses, or makes available for the use...
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...
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...
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; un... - 1. The following persons, in the following order of priority,...
NRS 451.025 - Reimbursement for burial expenses paid with public money. - If the governing body of any county, city or town...
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; di... - 1. If the county agency that is responsible for interring...
NRS 451.030 - Removal of remains for sale or dissection; purchases; punishment. - 1. A person who removes the dead body of a...
NRS 451.040 - Seizure of remains for debt; interference with dead body; penalty. - 1. Every person who shall arrest or attach the dead...
NRS 451.045 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains within State. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 451.050, the local...
NRS 451.050 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains out of State. - 1. Any person, company, association or corporation in this State...
NRS 451.060 - Penalties for noncompliance of common carrier. - 1. Any transportation company or common carrier transporting or carrying,...
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,...
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...
NRS 451.069 - "Cemetery authority" defined. - As used in NRS 451.069 to 451.330, inclusive, "cemetery authority"...
NRS 451.070 - Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains. - Except as otherwise provided in NRS 451.075, a cemetery authority...
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...
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...
NRS 451.110 - Notice of determination to remove human remains. - 1. Notice of a determination to remove the human remains...
NRS 451.130 - Posting of copies of notice in cemetery. - Copies of the notice shall, within 10 days after the...
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...
NRS 451.150 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative. - At any time before the date fixed for the removal...
NRS 451.160 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Contents. - The notice to the cemetery authority shall specify: 1. The...
NRS 451.170 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Manner of delivery. - The notice may be delivered, or forwarded by registered or...
NRS 451.180 - Notice by cemetery authority; manner of service on friend or relative. - After receipt of such notice before the date fixed for...
NRS 451.190 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Effect. - Whenever a request of notice is given by a relative...
NRS 451.260 - Removal of human remains. - After the completion of notice and after the expiration of...
NRS 451.270 - Manner and time of reinterment. - 1. The remains of each person reinterred shall be placed...
NRS 451.280 - Disposal of land by cemetery authority; authority to sell and encumber. - Whenever human remains have been ordered removed under the provisions...
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...
NRS 451.300 - Petition for confirmation; notice of hearing. - Petitions for confirmation of sales shall be made to the...
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...
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...
NRS 451.330 - Removal of dedication; notice of hearing and proof. - After all remains have been removed from a cemetery in...
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...
NRS 451.350 - "Committee" defined. - As used in NRS 451.350 to 451.470, inclusive, "Committee" means...
NRS 451.360 - Establishment and composition of Committee; election and terms of Chair and Secretary. - 1. The Nevada System of Higher Education may establish a...
NRS 451.370 - Meetings, records and budget of Committee. - 1. The Committee shall meet: (a) At least twice annually...
NRS 451.380 - Compensation of members of Committee. - The members of the Committee shall serve without salary. (Added...
NRS 451.390 - Regulations of Committee. - The Committee shall adopt such regulations as it may deem...
NRS 451.400 - Notification of Committee or its designee concerning dead human body which is unclaimed or required to be buried at public expense; delivery of body as designated by Committee. - 1. All public officers, agents or employees of every county,...
NRS 451.410 - Retention of bodies received by Committee; referral of excess or unfit bodies to board of county commissioners for burial or cremation. - Each dead human body received by the Committee shall be...
NRS 451.420 - Committee to receive notice of death for unclaimed indigent person; limitations on delivery of bodies to Committee. - 1. Notice of death must be given to the Committee...
NRS 451.430 - Delivery of body by Committee to friend or other claimant; payment of expenses; military funeral required by veterans’ organization that claims body. - Any dead human body which has been delivered to the...
NRS 451.440 - Contract for delivery of body to Committee prohibited; Committee authorized to accept body left by will. - 1. The Committee is prohibited from entering into any contract,...
NRS 451.450 - Distribution of bodies among schools, teaching hospitals and other persons or entities; fees; penalty. - 1. The Committee or its duly authorized agent shall take...
NRS 451.460 - Recipient of body received from Committee required to give bond; approval, amount and conditions of bond. - The Committee shall not distribute a body delivered to it...
NRS 451.470 - Disposal of remains after use. - At any time any body, or part of any body...
NRS 451.500 - Short title. - NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, may be cited as the...
NRS 451.503 - Applicability of Act. - NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, apply to an anatomical gift...
NRS 451.505 - Uniformity of application and construction. - In applying and construing the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act,...
NRS 451.510 - Definitions. - As used in NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, unless the...
NRS 451.511 - "Adult" defined. - "Adult" means a natural person who is at least 18...
NRS 451.512 - "Agent" defined. - "Agent" means a natural person: 1. Authorized to make health-care...
NRS 451.513 - "Anatomical gift" defined. - "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or part of...
NRS 451.520 - "Decedent" defined. - "Decedent" means a deceased natural person whose body or part...
NRS 451.522 - "Disinterested witness" defined. - "Disinterested witness" means a witness other than the spouse, child,...
NRS 451.523 - "Document of gift" defined. - "Document of gift" means a donor card or other record...
NRS 451.525 - "Donor" defined. - "Donor" means a natural person whose body or part is...
NRS 451.526 - "Donor registry" defined. - "Donor registry" means a database that contains records of anatomical...
NRS 451.528 - "Driver’s license" defined. - "Driver’s license" means a license or permit issued by the...
NRS 451.5285 - "Eye bank" defined. - "Eye bank" means a person that is licensed, accredited or...
NRS 451.529 - "Guardian" defined. - "Guardian" means a person appointed by a court to make...
NRS 451.530 - "Hospital" defined. - "Hospital" means a facility licensed as a hospital under the...
NRS 451.532 - "Identification card" defined. - "Identification card" means an identification card issued by the Department...
NRS 451.533 - "Know" defined. - "Know" means to have actual knowledge. (Added to NRS by...
NRS 451.5335 - "Minor" defined. - "Minor" means a natural person who is under 18 years...
NRS 451.534 - "Organ procurement organization" defined. - "Organ procurement organization" means a person designated by the Secretary...
NRS 451.5345 - "Parent" defined. - "Parent" means a parent whose parental rights have not been...
NRS 451.535 - "Part" defined. - "Part" means an organ, an eye or any tissue of...
NRS 451.540 - "Person" defined. - "Person" means a natural person, corporation, business trust, estate, trust,...
NRS 451.545 - "Physician" defined. - "Physician" means a natural person authorized to practice medicine or...
NRS 451.547 - "Procurement organization" defined. - "Procurement organization" means an eye bank, organ procurement organization or...
NRS 451.5475 - "Prospective donor" defined. - "Prospective donor" means a natural person who is dead or...
NRS 451.548 - "Reasonably available" defined. - "Reasonably available" means able to be contacted by a procurement...
NRS 451.5485 - "Recipient" defined. - "Recipient" means a natural person into whose body a decedent’s...
NRS 451.549 - "Record" defined. - "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium...
NRS 451.5493 - "Refusal" defined. - "Refusal" means a record created under NRS 451.561 that expressly...
NRS 451.5497 - "Sign" defined. - "Sign" means, with the present intent to authenticate or adopt...
NRS 451.550 - "State" defined. - "State" means a state of the United States, the District...
NRS 451.553 - "Technician" defined. - "Technician" means a natural person determined to be qualified to...
NRS 451.5535 - "Tissue" defined. - "Tissue" means a portion of the human body other than...
NRS 451.554 - "Tissue bank" defined. - "Tissue bank" means a person that is licensed, accredited or...
NRS 451.5545 - "Transplant hospital" defined. - "Transplant hospital" means a hospital that furnishes organ transplants and...
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...
NRS 451.558 - Manner of making anatomical gift before death of donor. - 1. A donor may make an anatomical gift: (a) By...
NRS 451.559 - Amending or revoking anatomical gift before death of donor. - 1. Subject to NRS 451.562, a donor or other person...
NRS 451.561 - Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal. - 1. A natural person may refuse to make an anatomical...
NRS 451.562 - Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment or revocation. - 1. Subject to the provisions of subsections 6 and 7,...
NRS 451.566 - Persons authorized to make anatomical gift of body or part of decedent. - 1. Subject to subsections 2 and 3 and unless barred...
NRS 451.568 - Manner of making, amending or revoking anatomical gift of body or part of decedent. - 1. A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under...
NRS 451.571 - Persons who may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift. - 1. An anatomical gift may be made to the following...
NRS 451.572 - Search and notification. - 1. The following persons shall make a reasonable search of...
NRS 451.578 - Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine. - 1. A document of gift need not be delivered during...
NRS 451.579 - Rights and duties of procurement organization and others. - 1. When a hospital refers a natural person at or...
NRS 451.584 - Coordination of procurement and use. - Each hospital in this State shall enter into agreements or...
NRS 451.587 - Nontransplant anatomical donation organizations: Certification; standards and guidelines; fee for application for issuance or renewal of certificate; duties of Division; penalty. - 1. Each nontransplant anatomical donation organization that procures a human...
NRS 451.590 - Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalties. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person...
NRS 451.591 - Other prohibited acts; penalties. - 1. A person shall not, in order to obtain a...
NRS 451.592 - Immunity. - 1. A person that acts in accordance with NRS 451.500...
NRS 451.593 - Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity. - 1. A document of gift is valid if executed in...
NRS 451.594 - Donor registry. - 1. A person shall not create or maintain a donor...
NRS 451.595 - Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive. - 1. As used in this section: (a) "Advance health-care directive"...
NRS 451.596 - Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization. - 1. A coroner shall cooperate with procurement organizations to maximize...
NRS 451.597 - Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of coroner. - 1. Upon request of a procurement organization, a coroner shall...
NRS 451.598 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. - NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, modify, limit and supersede the...
NRS 451.600 - Definitions. - As used in NRS 451.600 to 451.715, inclusive, unless the...
NRS 451.605 - "Agent" defined. - "Agent" means, with respect to a particular deceased person, a...
NRS 451.607 - "Alkaline hydrolysis" defined. - "Alkaline hydrolysis" means the: 1. Reduction of human remains to...
NRS 451.610 - "Communicable disease" defined. - "Communicable disease" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS...
NRS 451.615 - "Container" defined. - "Container" means a vessel, whether or not a casket, in...
NRS 451.617 - "Cremation" defined. - "Cremation" means the technical process that reduces human remains to...
NRS 451.620 - "Human remains" defined. - "Human remains" means the body of a deceased person, or...
NRS 451.625 - "Operator" defined. - "Operator" of a crematory means the person licensed to conduct...
NRS 451.630 - "Urn" defined. - "Urn" means a vessel in which cremated remains can be...
NRS 451.635 - Requirements for licensing of crematories and certification of persons operating crematory equipment. - 1. No person may cremate human remains except in a...
NRS 451.637 - Operator of crematory to provide notice to certain entities concerning equipment for alkaline hydrolysis; entity that receives notice to ensure compliance with state and local requirements. - 1. After obtaining a license pursuant to NRS 451.635 and...
NRS 451.640 - Adoption of regulations; injunctive relief. - 1. The Nevada Funeral and Cemetery Services Board shall adopt...
NRS 451.645 - Authority of cemetery or funeral home to erect and conduct crematory; placement. - 1. A cemetery or funeral home may erect and conduct...
NRS 451.655 - Order of person for cremation and disposition of remains. - 1. A prepaid contract for services to be rendered upon...
NRS 451.660 - Requirements for death certificate and written authorization; delegation of authority of authorized agent; unavailability of authorized agent. - 1. The operator of a crematory shall not cremate human...
NRS 451.665 - Maintenance of records; identification of remains. - 1. The operator of a crematory, funeral establishment or direct...
NRS 451.670 - Prohibition against requiring placement of remains in casket; construction and incineration or dissolution of container. - 1. No operator of a crematory may require that human...
NRS 451.675 - Holding of remains awaiting cremation. - 1. If the operator of a crematory cannot cremate human...
NRS 451.680 - Procedure and space for cremation. - 1. The agent, or the person charged with arranging for...
NRS 451.685 - Allowance of persons near remains awaiting cremation; simultaneous cremation of remains of more than one person. - 1. The operator of a crematory shall not permit a...
NRS 451.690 - Delivery and transportation of cremated remains. - 1. When cremated remains are called for or delivered, the...
NRS 451.695 - Disposition of cremated remains: Responsibility; operator of crematory. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2: (a) The...
NRS 451.700 - Disposition of cremated remains: Restrictions on manner and location. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 or authorized...
NRS 451.705 - Effect of execution of order for cremation; liability for article of value delivered with remains. - 1. The signer of an order for the cremation of...
NRS 451.710 - Refusal to accept or cremate remains or to release cremated remains pending resolution of dispute. - 1. The operator of a crematory incurs no liability by...
NRS 451.715 - Unlawful acts; abatement of unlawful crematory as public nuisance. - 1. It is unlawful for any person to: (a) Hold...