NRS 451.025: Reimbursement for burial expenses paid with public money.

If the governing body of any county, city or town within the State of Nevada must arrange for and order the decent burial of any person dying within such county, city or town, leaving a spouse or parent in whose custody such person remained at the time he or she died, which spouse or parent is not indigent and not otherwise eligible for assistance as a poor person and expenses for a decent burial have been paid out of public funds pursuant to such an order, the county, city or town must be reimbursed for its expenses of burial of the dead body of such person by the spouse or parent charged by law with the duty of burial.