Nevada Code § 451.340

Disinterment by heir or relative must comply with requirements of religious denomination, society or church; authority of officer, representative or agent of church or religious society
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1. The heirs, relatives or friends of any
decedent whose remains have been interred in any cemetery owned, governed or
controlled by any religious corporation or by any church or religious society
of any denomination or by any corporation sole administering temporalities of
any religious denomination, society or church, or owned, governed or controlled
by any person or persons as trustee or trustees for any religious denomination,
society or church shall not disinter, remove, reinter or dispose of any such
remains except in accordance with the rules, regulations and discipline of such
religious denomination, society or church.
2. The officers, representatives or agents
of the church or religious society shall be the sole judge of the requirements
of the rules, regulations and discipline of such religious denomination,
society or church.

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