451.450 - Distribution of bodies among schools, teaching hospitals and other persons or entities; fees; penalty.
451.450 Distribution of bodies among schools, teaching hospitals and other persons or entities; fees; penalty.
1. The Committee or its duly authorized agent shall take and receive the bodies delivered to it pursuant to the provisions of NRS 451.350 to 451.470, inclusive, and shall distribute such bodies proportionately and equitably, among schools, teaching hospitals in which there is a resident training program that requires cadaveric material for study, and such other person or entity as the Committee may determine to be eligible to receive such bodies.
2. The Committee shall charge and collect:
(a) From a university, state college, community college or medical school within the Nevada System of Higher Education and any other medical school in this State to which the Committee distributes a dead human body in accordance with subsection 1, a fee in an amount not to exceed the expenses of the Committee to obtain, handle and distribute the body delivered to it pursuant to the provisions of NRS 451.350 to 451.470, inclusive; and
(b) From any other person or entity to which the Committee distributes a dead human body in accordance with subsection 1:
(1) A fee in an amount not to exceed the expenses of the Committee to obtain, handle and distribute the body delivered to it pursuant to the provisions of NRS 451.350 to 451.470, inclusive; and
(2) An additional fee of $200 for each body distributed to the person or entity which must be used by the Committee to carry out the provisions of NRS 451.350 to 451.470, inclusive.
3. A person or entity may not receive a dead body for the promotion of medical science unless the Committee has determined that the person or entity is eligible to receive the dead body. A person or entity who receives a dead body in violation of this subsection is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 533; A 1969, 161; 2005, 603)