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NRS 451.080

Regulations governing manner of removal and reinterment; time for removal and reinterment

Known as the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act

The act spans §§ 451–451 (124 sections).

(Added to NRS by 1961, 459; A 1979, 1561; 2001, 989; 2017, 328; 2025, 1663)

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 a court 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.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.