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2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies
NRS 451.270 - Manner and time of reinterment.
Universal Citation: NV Rev Stat § 451.270 (2022)
1. The remains of each person reinterred shall be placed in a separate and suitable receptacle and decently and respectfully interred not later than 1 year after the date on which the remains are disinterred under rules and regulations adopted by the cemetery authority making the removal.
2. A receptacle shall be deemed suitable for the purposes of subsection 1 if the receptacle:
(a) Is capable of withstanding weather and movement of the earth that may affect the receptacle for at least 100 years; or
(b) Has been approved by the closest living relative of the decedent.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 462; A 2017, 328)
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