Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies
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 accordance with:
(a) The provisions of NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive;
(b) The laws of the state or country where it was executed; or
(c) The laws of the state or country where the person making the anatomical gift was domiciled, has a place of residence or was a national at the time the document of gift was executed.
2. If a document of gift is valid under this section, the law of this State governs the interpretation of the document of gift.
3. A person may presume that a document of gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that it was not validly executed or was revoked.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 790; A 2019, 2766)

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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies

NRS 451.005 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined.

NRS 451.007 - Requirements for determination.

NRS 451.008 - Consent not required for determination; prohibition on withholding or withdrawal of organ-sustaining treatment in certain circumstances; notice.

NRS 451.010 - Dissection of dead human bodies: Limitations; penalty.

NRS 451.015 - Commercial use of aborted embryo or fetus prohibited; penalty.

NRS 451.020 - Burial or cremation within reasonable time after death; transportation and disposal of residue of cremated body.

NRS 451.023 - Responsibility of surviving spouse or parent for burial or cremation of deceased spouse or child.

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...

NRS 451.025 - Reimbursement for burial expenses paid with public money.

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...

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 451.065 - Unlawful to require remains to be embalmed or otherwise prepared before disposition; exceptions; penalty.

NRS 451.067 - Designation of family cemetery; notification of Division of Public and Behavioral Health of designation.

NRS 451.069 - "Cemetery authority" defined.

NRS 451.070 - Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains.

NRS 451.075 - Prohibition on certain acts by cemetery authority concerning burial plot owned in fee simple.

NRS 451.080 - Regulations governing manner of removal and reinterment; time for removal and reinterment.

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 451.290 - Sale or encumbrance of land; confirmation by district court of sale by cemetery corporation or association.

NRS 451.300 - Petition for confirmation; notice of hearing.

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.

NRS 451.320 - Declaration of removal by cemetery authority: Filing; acknowledgment; effect of subsequent conveyance.

NRS 451.330 - Removal of dedication; notice of hearing and proof.

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.

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 451.400 - 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.

NRS 451.410 - Retention of bodies received by Committee; referral of excess or unfit bodies to board of county commissioners for burial or cremation.

NRS 451.420 - Committee to receive notice of death for unclaimed indigent person; limitations on delivery of bodies to 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.

NRS 451.440 - Contract for delivery of body to Committee prohibited; Committee authorized to accept body left by will.

NRS 451.450 - Distribution of bodies among schools, teaching hospitals and other persons or entities; fees; penalty.

NRS 451.460 - Recipient of body received from Committee required to give bond; approval, amount and conditions of bond.

NRS 451.470 - Disposal of remains after use.

NRS 451.500 - Short title.

NRS 451.503 - Applicability of Act.

NRS 451.505 - Uniformity of application and construction.

NRS 451.510 - Definitions.

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 451.533 - "Know" defined.

NRS 451.5335 - "Minor" defined.

NRS 451.534 - "Organ procurement organization" defined.

NRS 451.5345 - "Parent" defined.

NRS 451.535 - "Part" 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 451.587 - Nontransplant anatomical donation organizations: Certification; standards and guidelines; fee for application for issuance or renewal of certificate; duties of Division; penalty.

NRS 451.590 - Sale or purchase of parts prohibited; penalties.

NRS 451.591 - Other prohibited acts; penalties.

NRS 451.592 - Immunity.

NRS 451.593 - Law governing validity; choice of law as to execution of document of gift; presumption of validity.

NRS 451.594 - Donor registry.

NRS 451.595 - Effect of anatomical gift on advance health-care directive.

NRS 451.596 - Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization.

NRS 451.597 - Facilitation of anatomical gift from decedent whose body is under jurisdiction of coroner.

NRS 451.598 - Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act.

NRS 451.600 - Definitions.

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 451.630 - "Urn" defined.

NRS 451.635 - Requirements for licensing of crematories and certification of persons operating crematory equipment.

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.

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 451.660 - Requirements for death certificate and written authorization; delegation of authority of authorized agent; unavailability of authorized agent.

NRS 451.665 - Maintenance of records; identification of remains.

NRS 451.670 - Prohibition against requiring placement of remains in casket; construction and incineration or dissolution of container.

NRS 451.675 - Holding of remains awaiting cremation.

NRS 451.680 - Procedure and space for cremation.

NRS 451.685 - Allowance of persons near remains awaiting cremation; simultaneous cremation of remains of more than one person.

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 451.705 - Effect of execution of order for cremation; liability for article of value delivered with remains.

NRS 451.710 - Refusal to accept or cremate remains or to release cremated remains pending resolution of dispute.

NRS 451.715 - Unlawful acts; abatement of unlawful crematory as public nuisance.