417.210 - Eligibility for interment; application; fees; interment of family member.
417.210 Eligibility for interment; application; fees; interment of family member.
1. A veteran who is eligible for interment in a national cemetery pursuant to the provisions of 38 U.S.C. § 2402 is eligible for interment in a veterans’ cemetery in this State.
2. An eligible veteran, or a member of his or her immediate family, or a veterans’ organization recognized by the Executive Director may apply for a plot in a cemetery for veterans in this State by submitting a request to the cemetery superintendent on a form to be supplied by the cemetery superintendent. The cemetery superintendent shall assign available plots in the order in which applications are received. A specific plot may not be reserved before it is needed for burial. No charge may be made for a plot or for the interment of a veteran.
3. One plot is allowed for the interment of each eligible veteran and for each member of his or her immediate family, except where the conditions of the soil or the number of the decedents of the family requires more than one plot.
4. The Executive Director shall charge a fee for the interment of a family member, but the fee may not exceed the actual cost of interment.
5. As used in this section, “immediate family” means the spouse, minor child or, when the Executive Director deems appropriate, the unmarried adult child of an eligible veteran.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 991; A 1995, 2526; 1997, 2589; 2003, 385)