Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 451 - Dead Bodies
PRESERVATION
Section 451.010 - Embalming

1. At the direction of a physician, licensed to practice medicine in Nevada, who was last in attendance on a person known or suspected to have died of a communicable disease, or of any coroner or health officer who has knowledge or suspects that a person has died of a communicable disease in his jurisdiction, the funeral director shall embalm the dead body as soon as possible.

2. In a case where an autopsy or other medical examination is required, embalming must not be performed until authorized by the physician, coroner or health officer having jurisdiction over the body.

3. If a dead body has not been disposed of or otherwise preserved within 18 hours after the time of death, the facility must, in the interest of public health, take such steps as may be reasonably necessary to preserve the dead body or may store the dead body in a sealed container.