NRS451.430. Delivery of body by Committee to friend or other claimant; payment of expenses; military funeral required by veterans’ organization that claims body.

  Any dead human body which has been delivered to the Committee may be claimed by any friend of the deceased, any representative of a fraternal society of which the deceased was a member, a veterans’ organization recognized by the Director of the Department of Veterans Services, or any representative of any charitable or religious organization. Upon receipt of such a claim, the body must be surrendered to the claimant by the Committee after the payment to the Committee of the expenses incurred in obtaining and handling the body. If a veterans’ organization claims the body of a deceased veteran pursuant to this section, the veterans’ organization must provide a military funeral.

      (Added to NRS by 1963, 532; A 2003, 386)