1. All public officers, agents or employees of every county, city or town, every person in charge of any prison, morgue, hospital, funeral parlor or mortuary, and all other persons coming into possession, charge or control of any dead human body which is unclaimed or which is required to be buried at public expense are hereby required to notify immediately the Committee or its designee.
2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 451.420, every person required to notify the Committee or its designee of the person’s possession, charge or control of a dead human body pursuant to subsection 1 shall, upon the request of the Committee and without fee, deliver such a dead body to the Committee, or to such agent, institution or person as the Committee may designate.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 532; A 2003, 385; 2005, 602)