2015 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies
NRS 451.070 - Authority to order disinterment and removal of human remains.

NV Rev Stat § 451.070 (2015) What's This?

A cemetery authority may order the disinterment and removal of all human remains interred in all or any part of any cemetery if the cemetery authority or a governmental authority determines that the further 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 or if the cemetery authority determines that financial provision must be made for future care of gravesites within a specified area.

(Added to NRS by 1961, 459; A 1979, 1561; 2001, 989)

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