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

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 451.075, a cemetery authority may order the disinterment and removal of all human remains interred in all or any part of any cemetery if:

1.

A governmental authority other than the cemetery authority determines that:

(a)

The maintenance of all or any part of the cemetery as a burial place for the human dead is not in accordance with the health, safety, comfort or welfare of the public;

(b)

The cemetery authority is unable to restore the cemetery or part of the cemetery to a condition where the maintenance of the cemetery as a burial place for the human dead is in accordance with the health, safety, comfort and welfare of the public; and

(c)

The cemetery authority is unable, at current market rates, to sell or lease the cemetery to or enter into a contract with another cemetery authority that will maintain the cemetery as a burial place for the human dead in accordance with the health, safety, comfort and welfare of the public; or

2.

The cemetery authority determines that financial provision must be made for future care of gravesites within a specified area.

Source: Section 451.070 — Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-451.­html#NRS451Sec070.

Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

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