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2025 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies
NRS 451.005 - "Human remains" and "remains" defined.

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NV Rev Stat § 451.005 (2025)
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As used in NRS 451.010 to 451.340, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, "human remains" or "remains" means the body of a deceased person, and includes the body in any stage of decomposition and the cremated remains of a body.

(Added to NRS by 1961, 254; A 1969, 161; 2003, 1881; 2015, 569; 2017, 327; 2023, 294)

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