Nevada Code § 451.050

Permit for disinterment or removal of human remains out of State
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1. Any person, company, association or
corporation in this State who shall exhume or disinter, or who shall cause to
be exhumed or disinterred, any human remains, or any part of such remains,
which have been buried in the ground in this State, for the purpose of
transporting the same to any other state or foreign country, except under the
conditions provided in subsection 2, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. The boards of county commissioners of
the several counties in which human remains are buried or interred, as provided
in subsection 1, are authorized to grant and to issue written permits for the
disinterment and removal of any such human remains referred to in subsection 1,
whenever in their judgment the public health will not be endangered by such
disinterment and removal; but no such permit shall be granted or issued under
any circumstances or at any time where the person or persons buried or interred
have died from or with any contagious or loathsome disease.

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