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Section 23-18-1. – Definitions.

§ 23-18-1. Definitions. The following terms used in this chapter, unless the context indicates otherwise, have the following meanings: (1) “Agencies” mean town cemeteries, religious or ecclesiastical society cemeteries, cemetery associations, or any person, firm, corporation, or unincorporated association previously or hereafter engaged in the business of conducting a cemetery or operating a community mausoleum […]

Section 23-18-2. – Location of mausoleums and columbaria.

§ 23-18-2. Location of mausoleums and columbaria. Every community mausoleum, other than structures containing crypts erected or controlled by churches and religious societies, and every columbarium, or other similar structure intended to hold or contain the bodies or remains of the dead, the spaces, crypts, or niches of which are available to the public, shall […]

Section 23-18-2.1. – Cremated human remains.

§ 23-18-2.1. Cremated human remains. (a) If a cemetery has rules or regulations in effect regarding the disposition of cremated human remains on or in cemetery property, those rules and regulations, if not contrary to law, shall be binding on all interested parties. (b) The scattering of cremated human remains within a cemetery shall be […]