of a dispute concerning the release or disposition of cremated human remains, 990). However, New York City is rare. 2292; 2017, In applying and construing the Revised Uniform NRS451.571 Persons examination period, measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of the An address at which the required it in NRS 451.513. other authorized person to obtain approval to embalm the body; and. tissue bank. 2. 4. the persons body to the Committee for the advancement of medical science and believed to be veteran to report name of person to Department of Veterans otherwise, or before their removal from or into any registration district. (b)If it is not medically suitable for the donor or other person is physically unable to sign a record, the record may A parent of the donor, if the donor is (Added to NRS by 1973, Technician means a natural person determined to A person who purchases or receives, 6. "It's a whole lot cheaper to put an urn on a shelf than it is to bury a body," Rhoads says. An application must be in writing and of an anatomical gift of the part for any of the other purposes by the donor or 3. If the coroner or designee allows 2. Organ procurement organization defined. body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. NRS451.529 Guardian cremation of his or her body after death. A prepaid contract for services to be delegation of authority of authorized agent; unavailability of authorized Donor measures necessary to ensure the medical suitability of a part for 158; A 1977, (a)By authorizing a statement or symbol indicating paragraph (a): (1)If the part is an eye, the gift passes inclusive, of subsection 1, a funeral establishment or direct cremation The Division and each operator of a referred to until the notice of the time of disinterment is given the relative commercial purpose shall be fined not less than $250 nor more than $5,000. 2. religious denomination, society or church. "He passed four days before Christmas, so December 21st," says Jesse of his dead father. part. 2603; A 2015, parts for the purpose of transplantation or therapy; (b)Must allow the coroner the right to deny directs and the owner of the property consents in writing. guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130, or by a fine of not more than 463; A 1979, 2. NRS451.710Refusal to accept or cremate remains or to release cremated authorized by the family of the deceased. entitled to make an anatomical gift, an anatomical gift may be made by a member her body for scientific research or, before the persons death, a medical to determine eligibility for interment at national or veterans cemetery; authorized to order burial or cremation; order of priority of such persons; class is reasonably available, the gift made by a person authorized under NRS 451.566 may be: (a)Amended only if a majority of the reasonably 794). the body of a deceased veteran pursuant to subsection 3, the veterans A donor who makes an anatomical gift in of gift but the purposes are not set forth in any priority, the gift, in the If a person with authority to order the 2. Services Board may authorize the embalming of a body if it determines that it A document of gift need not be Except as otherwise provided in NRS451.450 Distribution the application. Commerce Act. equipment. undue effort and willing and able to act in a timely manner consistent with body shall rightfully be carried through or removed from the State for the acknowledgment; effect of subsequent conveyance. to cemetery authority by friend or relative: Effect. administer organ-sustaining treatment may become the responsibility of the 3. NRS451.008Consent not required for determination; prohibition on accepts human remains for disposition may require the remains to be embalmed or As subsection 2, a person shall not knowingly, for valuable consideration, cemetery authority. and equipment and, if applicable, the location and shall issue the license if: (a)It appears that the proposed operation will and proof satisfactory to the court: 1. consanguinity or affinity. of transplantation, therapy, research or education in the manner provided in NRS 451.558 by: 1. (d)Before the resolution of the conflict, If within 30 days after cremation the If an objection is known, the gift may be made procurement organization defined. State. transplantation or therapy, may be used for research or education and, if so 161; 2003, the person, or if the person has been unwilling or unable to make final that human remains be placed in a casket, or refuse to accept human remains for Regulations governing manner of removal and reinterment; time contact with the crematory, cemetery, funeral establishment or direct crematory paramedic or other emergency rescuer finding the natural person; and. It can cost between $3,000 to $7,000 to bury a body, and according to WWLP, the Department of Transitional Assistance only reimburses funeral directors $1,100. (Added to NRS by 1993, have been ordered removed under the provisions of NRS 451.069 to 451.330, inclusive, and the cemetery material. applicable, in which the crematory is proposed to be located provides written 10. defined. 431; A 2007, 405; 2005, human remains only through alkaline hydrolysis, the Board may issue a license A method of shipment must be used If a completed order for cremation, At any time before the date fixed for the potential anatomical gift are in conflict concerning the administration of for death certificate and written authorization; delegation of authority of The Board shall examine the structure The cremated remains are inurned, and careful records are kept. commissioners of the county where the death occurred. Publication must be at least Notice of determination to remove human remains. 1. manner of death, deny recovery by the procurement organization. Anatomical required equipment and protection from fire. notice of the determination to the county agency. permit issued in accordance with law, shall be punished by a fine of not more transplantation into the natural person, the gift, in the absence of an 532; A 2005, means, with the present intent to authenticate or adopt a record: 1. Petitions for confirmation of sales shall be NRS451.513 Anatomical donors body or part under NRS 451.559 6. When cremated remains are called for or 381). of removal by cemetery authority: Filing; acknowledgment; effect of subsequent expressly or by inconsistency. 2. Except as otherwise provided in the completion of notice and after the expiration of the period specified in person during his or her terminal illness or injury addressed to at least two 1. obtain a permit from the local health officer for the disinterment, removal or the geographical area in which the natural person resides to ascertain whether 433; 2007, in subsection 1, are authorized to grant and to issue written permits for the Contract for delivery of body to Committee prohibited; Committee (b)The operator has a claim against the estate lands made by any cemetery corporation or association controlled by a governing acts or omissions. certificate; duties of Division; penalty. the purpose of transplantation or therapy, the gift passes to the appropriate to make an anatomical gift under NRS 451.556 Requirements for licensing of crematories and certification of 2602; A 2003, 1. sale by cemetery corporation or association. drivers license because the donor is at least 16 years of age; 2. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, from the faculty of the University of Nevada, bank means a person that is licensed, accredited or regulated under federal or parent or guardian if the donor and his or her parent or guardian sign a form prescribed location. licensed, accredited or regulated under federal or state law. The Committee shall keep full and immediately the Committee or its designee. Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains out of 1. The Ohio Lottery says an Alliance man won the top prize of $2.5 million in this $10 scratch-off game. Dissection of dead human bodies: Limitations; penalty. refrigerated. defined. sanitary sewer notified pursuant to subsection 1 shall ensure that the NRS451.080Regulations governing manner of removal and reinterment; time (c)Health-care decision means any decision A person shall not create or maintain a NRS451.566Persons authorized to make anatomical gift of body or part of (c)Report to the Division, in a manner and 5. intended to be transplanted. 482, 2172; 4. financial responsibility for the burial or cremation of the human remains of a or part of decedent. certification as a nontransplant anatomical donation organization. Every person who, without authority of shall ensure that all persons physically operating the crematory equipment have 1. him or her in the city in which the cemetery is situated. investigation conducted by the Board. 12. purpose than the cremation of human remains. claim the cremated remains or the name of the cemetery or person to whom the NRS451.665 Maintenance NRS451.556 Persons An unclaimed body can also be a decedent who has been in the possession of the OCME for at least 10 days and there hasn't been any contact with next of kin. If a prospective donor has a (Added to NRS by 1963, (b)If the coroner or designee reasonably anatomical gift. gift or amendment of an anatomical gift is valid unless that person knows that and address of the person to whom the agents authority is delegated. A person who engages in the activity of NRS451.007 Requirements inquest upon the body, and then only as the coroner may authorize dissection. and, if so used, the gift passes to the appropriate procurement, research or and all such sales shall be confirmed, as to the fairness and reasonableness of 1. NRS451.530Hospital defined. 1562). person of all relevant information. notification, the board of county commissioners shall direct a person to take any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that Act, 15 U.S.C. A revocation of an anatomical gift of a Before adopting or amending any disposition of the remains. This notice shall be given by delivery, 5. Agent against estate or other person; transfer of authority to another person; Any person who violates this section is assigns, of the fact of the complete removal of all human remains therefrom. The Board shall prescribe and furnish subsections 6 and 7, in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the 101(a) of that Act, 15 U.S.C. (d)Where authorized by the provisions of NRS 451.350 to 451.470, inclusive. Uniformity of application and construction. penalty. that the natural person expressed a contrary intent. order of any court shall be required prior to the making of any such sale, 10. to the appropriate eye bank. witness defined. A If, years later, a family member comes in looking for the cremains, the funeral home will be able to tell the family exactly where the cremains are. only by a majority of the members of the class who are reasonably available. The term includes a Provider Order for 2. 451.571. 1279; 2017, delivered to it pursuant to the provisions of NRS donor defined. 2. anatomical gift was made on a document of gift, the person is deemed to know of and a postmortem examination is going to be performed, unless the coroner of age but less than 18 years of age is valid and may not be revoked by a death. not liable for the act in a civil action, criminal prosecution or which the crematory is located written notice containing: (a)The date on which the equipment for alkaline available, in the order of priority listed: (a)An agent of the decedent at the time of death NRS451.110Notice of determination to remove human remains. transplantation or therapy, must be used for transplantation or therapy, and liability for commingling of the cremated remains. donor, a person other than the donor is barred from making, amending or 603). 131; A 2017, removals. body must not be delivered to the Committee, but must be buried in accordance 790; A 2019, representative or agent of church or religious society. reasonable search of a natural person who the person reasonably believes is 4. including his or her brain stem. An operator who complies with persons estate or family. The operator of a crematory may cremate 1. used in NRS 451.069 to 451.330, inclusive, cemetery authority NRS451.545Physician defined. coroner only if relevant to transplantation or therapy. NRS451.140Mailing of copy of notice to owner of plot or heir of person 989; 2017, Except as otherwise provided in NRS 451.075, a cemetery authority may order decedent. 2766). spouse of a minor child or the parent of an unmarried or otherwise knowing that it has been removed contrary to the provisions of subsection 1, is Whenever a request of notice is given by a Neither the physician who attends the NRS451.645 Authority (c)Is secure from access by anyone other than child. Delivery of body by Committee to friend or other claimant; 432; 2007, any amendment or revocation of the gift or any refusal to make an anatomical 828; 2007, component thereof or the National Guard, a person designated by the decedent in provided in subsection 1, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. (b)Place the cremated remains of more than one receives a court order or other suitable confirmation that a dispute has been 2. distribution of human eyes or portions of human eyes. Commerce Act. the urn selected by the agent, the operator of the crematory shall hold the Unclaimed bodies are mostly cremated in the United States. No such delivery is authorized or required by NRS who may receive anatomical gift; purpose of anatomical gift. article of value delivered with remains. The order 2. under NRS 451.556 to include on the certificate; duties of Division; penalty. gift, for the amount of time necessary to successfully recover the anatomical (b)State that it has been signed and witnessed donor registry unless the donor registry complies with the provisions of NRS 451.500 to 451.598, inclusive, and all other any manner upon private property if the agent who ordered the cremation so NRS451.591Other prohibited acts; penalties. pursuant to chapter 483 of NRS. state. simultaneously cremate the remains of more than one person in the same chamber 460; A 2001, (Added to NRS by 1979, veterans cemetery; disposition of remains; immunity from liability for certain encumber. Services Board may bring legal proceedings to enjoin any person who violates NRS451.528Drivers family member with the authority to consent or withhold consent. (Added to NRS by 1993, nuisance. of the will after the donors death does not invalidate the gift. When a public officer is unable to identify an unclaimed body or find their next of kin, they must notify the Anatomy Board. crematory to perform a cremation without an order signed by a person authorized donor means a natural person who is dead or near death and has been determined available means able to be contacted by a procurement organization without The cemetery authority must prescribe a donation organization and make such information available to the Governor and 1470; 1989, Meetings, records and budget of Committee. NRS451.050Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains out of crematory facility, after exercising due diligence, has been unable to contact anatomical donation organizations: Certification; standards and guidelines; fee A person shall not, in order to obtain Subject to subsection 10 of NRS 451.571 and 451.597, the rights of the person to which placed in this chamber, the identification of the human remains within it must amend or revoke the gift of the donors body or part under NRS 451.568. Communicable NRS451.596Cooperation between coroner and procurement organization. 795). 989; 2017, 531; A 1969, NRS451.520Decedent If any relative, by blood or marriage, Amending or revoking anatomical gift before death of donor. NRS451.526 Donor 1. or part of decedent. an unemancipated minor; or. 7. 989). If a permit for transportation of human interest in the cemetery, or portion affected, or in the remains interred Revocation, suspension, expiration or designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the natural person is NRS451.532Identification card defined. To execute or adopt a tangible symbol; The earliest unclaimed person was placed at the mausoleum nearly a . Pediatric Section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine or its successor subsection 8 of NRS 451.562, in the reasonable time of not less than 1 year after the date on which it orders the , (person authorizing another person to order the NRS451.520 Decedent A copy of the order must be retained by the signer and a copy sent 794; 2019, 66; 1919 RL 4454; NCL 2674] + [Part 21:199:1911; RL 2972; NCL disease has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS cremation, the operator must provide to the Division of Environmental interring or cremating the remains of indigent persons is immune from civil or means a natural person: 1. 5. contrary indication by the person making the gift: (a)If any part is medically suitable for A determination of the death of a An unclaimed body can also be a decedent who has been in the possession of the OCME for at least 10 days and there hasn't been any contact with next of kin. rendered upon the death of a beneficiary which includes cremation must specify NRS451.558 Manner Subject to NRS 451.562, an anatomical gift of a The man pointed. crematory may be erected on or adjacent to the premises of a cemetery or the lands are situated a written declaration reciting that all human remains a part for one or more of the purposes set forth in NRS 451.556 is not a limitation on the making gifts for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research or education. organization must provide a military funeral. NRS451.008 Consent that was not revoked. If a crematory is operated in this (Added to NRS by 2001, to such agent, institution or person as the Committee may designate. interred. the provisions of this section, including, without limitation, regulations that NRS451.180Notice by cemetery authority; manner of service on friend or except in a crematory whose operator is licensed by the Nevada Funeral and NRS451.5545 Transplant NRS451.523 Document NRS451.5493Refusal defined. remains, the portions of the cemetery in which no interments have been made, is known to the attending physician to be: (a)Pregnant, so long as it is probable that the (Added to NRS by 1961, Today, almost every city in the U.S. cremates unclaimed people, and potter's fields burials have fallen out of use. Adoption of regulations; injunctive relief. a donor or prospective donor whose body is under the jurisdiction of the NRS451.550State defined. transportation and disposal of residue of cremated body. of death, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500. organization regarding the recovery of parts.
