Nevada Revised Statutes Section 452.140 - Public Health and Safety

“Nonendowment care cemetery” defined; endowment care cemetery may contain area without endowment care; requirements.

1. A “nonendowment care cemetery” is one that does not comply with the provisions of NRS 452.120 and 452.130.

2. A cemetery which otherwise complies with NRS 452.120 may be designated an endowment care cemetery even though it contains a small section which may be sold without endowment care, if the section is separately set off from the remainder of the cemetery and if signs are kept prominently placed around the section designating the same as a “Nonendowment care section” in legible black lettering at least 4 inches high. There shall be printed at the head of all contracts, agreements, statements, receipts and certificates of ownership or deeds referring to plots in the section the phrase “Nonendowment care.”

3. Subsection 2 applies only to cemeteries existing on July 1, 1971.

Last modified: February 26, 2006