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Nevada Revised Statutes Title 40. Public Health and Safety § 451.070. Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

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.

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