§ 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 available to the public and to existing families and property owners of the permitted cemetery on a nondiscriminatory basis; (3) No charge is made to the family, next of kin, or any agency for the space, interment, and opening and closing services; (4) The infant interment garden complies with the rules and regulations of the cemetery on file with the board; and (5) The conveyance and recordkeeping requirements of §§ 20-17-1019 and 20-17-1022 are satisfied for each interment in the infant interment garden. (b) An infant interment garden that complies with this section is not subject to the deposit requirements of § 20-17-1016 .

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2017, No. 788,§ 61, eff. 7/1/2018. Acts 2011, No. 590, § 13.