417.200 - Establishment; operation and maintenance; procedure for offering voluntary services.

417.200  Establishment; operation and maintenance; procedure for offering voluntary services.

      1.  The Executive Director shall establish, operate and maintain a veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada and a veterans’ cemetery in southern Nevada, and may, within the limits of legislative authorization, employ personnel and purchase equipment and supplies necessary for the operation and maintenance of the cemeteries. The Executive Director shall employ a cemetery superintendent to operate and maintain each cemetery.

      2.  The cemetery superintendent shall ensure that the area immediately above and surrounding the interred remains in each veterans’ cemetery is landscaped with natural grass.

      3.  A person desiring to provide voluntary services to further the establishment, maintenance or operation of either of the cemeteries shall submit a written offer to the cemetery superintendent which describes the nature of the services. The cemetery superintendent shall consider all such offers and approve those he or she deems appropriate. The cemetery superintendent shall coordinate the provision of all services so approved.

      (Added to NRS by 1987, 991; A 1995, 2526; 1997, 2589; 2009, 1832)