Section 43g – Use of Community Mausoleum Prior to Completion; Care and Improvement Fund
Section 43G. No community mausoleum, crypt or structure erected as aforesaid shall be used for the purpose of depositing therein the remains of any dead body until such mausoleum, crypt or structure, or a component section thereof, is fully completed, and the permanent care and improvement fund required by section forty-three J has been established.
Section 48 – Cremation; Certificates for Burial
Section 48. An undertaker shall not bury the ashes of a human body until he has received from the person having the charge of the crematory a certificate that the burial permit and the certificate of the medical examiner prerequisite to the cremating of said body have been duly presented.
Section 43h – Sale of Community Mausoleum Prior to Completion
Section 43H. No crypt in a community mausoleum shall be sold or offered for sale before said structure, or a component section thereof, is fully completed.
Section 49 – Licensing of Funeral Directors; Revocation or Suspension; Hearing; Fees; Permits
Section 49. The board of health of each town shall annually, on or before May first, license persons to act as funeral directors therein upon such terms and conditions as the board of registration in embalming and funeral directing, established by section twenty-nine of chapter thirteen, shall prescribe. All such licenses shall expire April thirtieth […]
Section 43i – Removal of Bodies Constituting Menace to Public Health
Section 43I. Whenever any mausoleum, vault, crypt or other structure containing one or more dead human bodies shall, in the opinion of the department of public health, become a menace to public health, and the owner thereof fails to remedy or remove the same to the satisfaction of said department, any court of competent jurisdiction […]
Section 50 – Penalty; Violations of Secs. 44 to 48
Section 50. Violations of any of the provisions of sections forty-four to forty-eight, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars.
Section 43j – Permanent Care and Improvement Fund for Community Mausoleums
Section 43J. Every cemetery association or other agency establishing, maintaining and operating a community mausoleum on or after July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, shall create and establish a permanent care and improvement fund, distinct and separate from the permanent care and improvement fund of its cemetery. The fund established under authority of this section […]
Section 51 – Embalming Fluid
Section 51. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or supply others with any embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, which contains more than five milligrams of arsenic per litre. Violation of any provision of this section shall be punished by a fine of one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for one year, or both.
Section 43k – Custodian of Fund; Administration and Investment
Section 43K. The treasurer of the cemetery in which such community mausoleum is situated shall be the custodian of the permanent care and improvement fund established therefor as aforesaid and every such fund shall be held, administered and invested in the manner provided by law for funds in savings banks of the commonwealth.
Section 43l – Abating or Enjoining Nuisance
Section 43L. Any cemetery, community mausoleum or columbarium established, maintained or operated in violation of or contrary to any provision of this chapter shall be a nuisance and may be abated or enjoined as such at the suit of any taxpayer of the commonwealth.