497.270 – Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.
1497.270 Minimum acreage; sale or disposition of cemetery lands.— (1) No land in a licensed cemetery may be sold, mortgaged, leased, or encumbered without prior approval of the licensing authority pursuant to procedures specified by rule. Such approval shall not be given unless it be shown that such approval would be in the public interest. The licensing […]
497.271 – Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria.
497.271 Standards for construction and significant alteration or renovation of mausoleums and columbaria.— (1) All newly constructed and significantly altered or renovated mausoleums and columbaria must, in addition to complying with applicable building codes, conform to the standards adopted under this section. (2) The licensing authority shall adopt, by no later than July 1, 1999, rules establishing minimum […]
497.272 – Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement.
497.272 Construction of mausoleums, columbaria, and belowground crypts; preconstruction trust fund; compliance requirement.— (1) A cemetery company shall start construction of that section of a mausoleum, columbarium, or bank of belowground crypts in which sales, contracts for sales, reservations for sales, or agreements for sales are being made within 4 years after the date of the first […]
497.273 – Cemetery companies; authorized functions.
497.273 Cemetery companies; authorized functions.— (1) Within the boundaries of the cemetery lands it owns, a cemetery company may perform the following functions: (a) The exclusive care and maintenance of the cemetery. (b) The exclusive interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains, including the exclusive right to open, prepare for interment, and close all ground, mausoleum, and urn burials. […]
497.274 – Standards for grave spaces.
497.274 Standards for grave spaces.— (1) A standard adult grave space shall measure at least 42 inches in width and 96 inches in length, except for preinstalled vaults in designated areas. For interments, except cremated remains, the covering soil shall measure no less than 12 inches from the top of the outer burial container at time of […]
497.276 – Records.
497.276 Records.— (1) A record shall be kept of every burial in the cemetery of a cemetery company, showing the date of burial and the name of the person buried, together with lot, plot, and space in which the burial was made. All financial records of the cemetery company shall be available at its principal place of […]
497.2765 – Recording purchase of burial rights.
497.2765 Recording purchase of burial rights.— (1) Any person purchasing a burial right, belowground crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden for the interment, entombment, inurnment, or other disposition of human remains may, at the person’s option, permanently record the purchase of the burial right, belowground crypt, grave space, mausoleum, columbarium, ossuary, or scattering garden […]
497.277 – Other charges.
497.277 Other charges.—Other than the fees for the sale of burial rights, burial merchandise, and burial services, no other fee may be directly or indirectly charged, contracted for, or received by a cemetery company as a condition for a customer to use any burial right, burial merchandise, or burial service, except for: (1) Charges paid for opening […]
497.278 – Monuments; installation fees.
497.278 Monuments; installation fees.— (1) No cemetery company may charge a fee for the installation of a monument purchased or obtained from and to be installed by a person or firm other than the cemetery company or its agents. (2) To verify that a monument is installed on the proper grave in accordance with cemetery bylaws, rules, or […]
497.161 – Other rulemaking provisions.
497.161 Other rulemaking provisions.— (1) In addition to such other rules as are authorized or required under this chapter, the following additional rules, not inconsistent with this chapter, shall be authorized by the licensing authority. (a) Rules by the board defining any technical term used but not defined in this chapter, and defining the terms “at-need” and “preneed” […]