§ 20-17-1028. Contracts with municipality or county where a cemetery is located
(a) (1) The State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services may contract with the municipality or county where a cemetery is located for the care and maintenance and the operation of the cemetery. (2) Services relating to the care and maintenance and the operation of the cemetery include without limitation: (A) The […]
§ 20-17-1029. Cemetery advisory boards — Membership — Organization — Authority
(a) The Governor may create a cemetery advisory board for any cemetery purchased under § 20-17-1006 [repealed] to assist the state and the municipality or county where the cemetery is located in achieving the efficient management, operation, maintenance, and preservation of the cemetery. (b) (1) A cemetery advisory board shall be composed of seven (7) […]
§ 20-17-1030. Infant interment gardens
(a) A cemetery company may maintain an infant interment garden if: (1) The cemetery company provides the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services a letter of intent to establish an infant interment garden and a map of the location for the infant interment garden; (2) The infant interment garden is made […]
§ 20-17-1015. Permanent maintenance fund — Annual report
(a) (1) Within seventy-five (75) days after the end of each calendar year, the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services shall require the trustee of the permanent maintenance fund to file under oath a detailed annual report of the condition of the fund. (2) The annual report shall include: (A) A […]
§ 20-17-1016. Permanent maintenance fund — Required deposits
(a) Unless a greater amount is established by rule of the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services, a cemetery company shall deposit into its permanent maintenance fund a sum not less than: (1) Twenty percent (20%) of the gross proceeds from the sale of a lot or grave space in its […]
§ 20-17-1017. Permanent maintenance fund — Voluntary contributions
The permanent maintenance fund may also receive, take, and hold therefor and as part thereof or as incident thereto any real, personal, or mixed property bequeathed, devised, granted, given, or otherwise contributed to it.
§ 20-17-1018. Violations, criminal penalties, and remedies
(a) In addition to the civil provisions of this subchapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to: (1) Advertise or operate all or part of a cemetery as a perpetual care cemetery or permanent maintenance cemetery without holding a valid permit issued by the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services; […]
§ 20-17-1019. Conveyance of lots
(a) (1) An instrument conveying all or part of a burial lot or burial plot shall be issued to the purchaser upon full payment of the purchase price of the burial lot or burial plot. (2) The cemetery company shall not use an instrument to convey a burial lot or burial plot unless the form […]
§ 20-17-1020. Unlawful act
It shall be unlawful for any cemetery company to bury or inter a body in any path, alley, or walk.
§ 20-17-1021. Disposition of contributions and fees
(a) All contributions imposed under this subchapter shall be: (1) Deposited into the respective permanent maintenance fund of the cemetery company upon which the contribution is imposed; and (2) Paid within forty-five (45) days of imposition. (b) All fees imposed under this subchapter shall be paid to the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, […]