Nevada Code § 689.480

Unlawful acts; exception
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1. It is unlawful for any person to
receive, hold, control or manage money or proceeds received or derived from the
sale of, or from a contract to sell, any personal property, equipment,
merchandise or supplies of any description not then already existing,
available, deliverable and suitable for use in, or for the performance of, any
services connected with the interment, entombment or inurnment of the remains
of any deceased person, whether any such payment is made in lump sum or on an
installment basis, before the demise of the contract beneficiary for whom
purchased, unless the provisions of NRS
689.450 to 689.595 , inclusive, are
complied with.
2. The provisions of subsection 1 do not
apply to:
(a) The sale of grave plots, interests in land of
a cemetery or space in a mausoleum vault or crypt or columbarium niche by any
cemetery authority otherwise authorized to make such sales under NRS 689.450 to 689.595 , inclusive, which sales must be
separated and distinctly defined in any agreement for burial merchandise and
services.
(b) A bona fide prepaid agreement whereby a
cemetery authority is to furnish burial merchandise and services to a person
who has a medically diagnosed terminal illness and which agreement is entered
into and fully performed by the cemetery authority within 60 days of the date
medically predicted for the demise of the beneficiary named in any such
agreement.

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