2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 452 - Cemeteries
NRS 452.720 - Trust fund for endowment care: Use; deposit and investments; submission of annual financial statement.


NV Rev Stat § 452.720 (2011) What's This?

1. Money held in trust for the endowment care of a cemetery for pets must not be used for any purpose other than to provide, through income only, for the reserves authorized by law and for the endowment care of the cemetery in accordance with the resolutions, bylaws, rules and regulations or other actions or instruments of the cemetery authority.

2. The money must be invested and reinvested in:

(a) Bonds of the United States;

(b) Bonds of this state or the bonds of other states;

(c) Bonds of counties or municipalities of any state;

(d) With the approval of the Administrator, first mortgages or first trust deeds on improved real estate;

(e) Deposits in any bank, credit union or savings and loan association that is federally insured or insured by a private insurer approved pursuant to NRS 678.755; or

(f) With the written approval of the Administrator, any investment which would be proper under the provisions of NRS 164.700 to 164.775, inclusive.

Pending investment as provided in this subsection, such money may be deposited in an account in any savings bank, credit union or savings and loan association which is qualified to do business in this state and which is federally insured or insured by a private insurer approved pursuant to NRS 678.755.

3. Each cemetery authority shall annually submit to the Administrator, on a form prescribed and adopted by the Administrator, a financial statement of the condition of its trust fund for the endowment care of the cemetery. The statement must be accompanied by a fee of $10. If the statement is not received by the Administrator, he or she may, after giving 10 days notice, revoke the cemetery authority s certificate of authority.

(Added to NRS by 1993, 2753; A 1999, 1499; 2003, 1983)

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