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)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
NRS 451.005 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined.
NRS 451.007 - Requirements for determination.
NRS 451.010 - Dissection of dead human bodies: Limitations; penalty.
NRS 451.015 - Commercial use of aborted embryo or fetus prohibited; penalty.
NRS 451.025 - Reimbursement for burial expenses paid with public money.
NRS 451.030 - Removal of remains for sale or dissection; purchases; punishment.
NRS 451.040 - Seizure of remains for debt; interference with dead body; penalty.
NRS 451.045 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains within State.
NRS 451.050 - Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains out of State.
NRS 451.060 - Penalties for noncompliance of common carrier.
NRS 451.069 - "Cemetery authority" defined.
NRS 451.070 - Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains.
NRS 451.110 - Notice of determination to remove human remains.
NRS 451.130 - Posting of copies of notice in cemetery.
NRS 451.140 - Mailing of copy of notice to owner of plot or heir of person interred.
NRS 451.150 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative.
NRS 451.160 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Contents.
NRS 451.170 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Manner of delivery.
NRS 451.180 - Notice by cemetery authority; manner of service on friend or relative.
NRS 451.190 - Notice to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Effect.
NRS 451.260 - Removal of human remains.
NRS 451.270 - Manner and time of reinterment.
NRS 451.280 - Disposal of land by cemetery authority; authority to sell and encumber.
NRS 451.300 - Petition for confirmation; notice of hearing.
NRS 451.330 - Removal of dedication; notice of hearing and proof.
NRS 451.350 - "Committee" defined.
NRS 451.360 - Establishment and composition of Committee; election and terms of Chair and Secretary.
NRS 451.370 - Meetings, records and budget of Committee.
NRS 451.380 - Compensation of members of Committee.
NRS 451.390 - Regulations of Committee.
NRS 451.470 - Disposal of remains after use.
NRS 451.503 - Applicability of Act.
NRS 451.505 - Uniformity of application and construction.
NRS 451.511 - "Adult" defined.
NRS 451.512 - "Agent" defined.
NRS 451.513 - "Anatomical gift" defined.
NRS 451.520 - "Decedent" defined.
NRS 451.522 - "Disinterested witness" defined.
NRS 451.523 - "Document of gift" defined.
NRS 451.525 - "Donor" defined.
NRS 451.526 - "Donor registry" defined.
NRS 451.528 - "Driver’s license" defined.
NRS 451.5285 - "Eye bank" defined.
NRS 451.529 - "Guardian" defined.
NRS 451.530 - "Hospital" defined.
NRS 451.532 - "Identification card" defined.
NRS 451.5335 - "Minor" defined.
NRS 451.534 - "Organ procurement organization" defined.
NRS 451.5345 - "Parent" defined.
NRS 451.540 - "Person" defined.
NRS 451.545 - "Physician" defined.
NRS 451.547 - "Procurement organization" defined.
NRS 451.5475 - "Prospective donor" defined.
NRS 451.548 - "Reasonably available" defined.
NRS 451.5485 - "Recipient" defined.
NRS 451.549 - "Record" defined.
NRS 451.5493 - "Refusal" defined.
NRS 451.5497 - "Sign" defined.
NRS 451.550 - "State" defined.
NRS 451.553 - "Technician" defined.
NRS 451.5535 - "Tissue" defined.
NRS 451.554 - "Tissue bank" defined.
NRS 451.5545 - "Transplant hospital" defined.
NRS 451.556 - Persons authorized to make anatomical gift before death of donor.
NRS 451.558 - Manner of making anatomical gift before death of donor.
NRS 451.559 - Amending or revoking anatomical gift before death of donor.
NRS 451.561 - Refusal to make anatomical gift; effect of refusal.
NRS 451.562 - Preclusive effect of anatomical gift, amendment or revocation.
NRS 451.566 - Persons authorized to make anatomical gift of body or part of decedent.
NRS 451.568 - Manner of making, amending or revoking anatomical gift of body or part of decedent.
NRS 451.571 - Persons who may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift.
NRS 451.572 - Search and notification.
NRS 451.578 - Delivery of document of gift not required; right to examine.
NRS 451.579 - Rights and duties of procurement organization and others.
NRS 451.584 - Coordination of procurement and use.
NRS 451.590 - Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalties.
NRS 451.591 - Other prohibited acts; penalties.
NRS 451.595 - Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive.
NRS 451.596 - Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization.
NRS 451.598 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.
NRS 451.605 - "Agent" defined.
NRS 451.607 - "Alkaline hydrolysis" defined.
NRS 451.610 - "Communicable disease" defined.
NRS 451.615 - "Container" defined.
NRS 451.617 - "Cremation" defined.
NRS 451.620 - "Human remains" defined.
NRS 451.625 - "Operator" defined.
NRS 451.640 - Adoption of regulations; injunctive relief.
NRS 451.645 - Authority of cemetery or funeral home to erect and conduct crematory; placement.
NRS 451.655 - Order of person for cremation and disposition of remains.
NRS 451.665 - Maintenance of records; identification of remains.
NRS 451.675 - Holding of remains awaiting cremation.
NRS 451.680 - Procedure and space for cremation.
NRS 451.690 - Delivery and transportation of cremated remains.
NRS 451.695 - Disposition of cremated remains: Responsibility; operator of crematory.
NRS 451.700 - Disposition of cremated remains: Restrictions on manner and location.
NRS 451.715 - Unlawful acts; abatement of unlawful crematory as public nuisance.