Colorado § 6-24-101 Definitions

Colorado Statutes

§ 6-24-101 — Definitions

Colorado § 6-24-101

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Art.Cemeteries

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Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-24-101 (2026).

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As used in this article 24, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1)Burial memorial means any type of gravestone, tombstone, headstone, memorial, monument, or marker that commemorates the permanent disposition of the remains of a human body either below or above the surface of the ground.

(2)Cemetery means any place, including a mausoleum, in which there is provided space either below or above the surface of the ground for the interment of the remains of human bodies. Cemetery does not include a cemetery that is owned, operated, or maintained by a government or governmental agency, by a church or synagogue, by a labor organization, by a cooperative association as defined in section 7-55-101, by a corporation organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes, or by a

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As used in this article 24, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(1) Burial memorial means any type of gravestone, tombstone, headstone,
memorial, monument, or marker that commemorates the permanent disposition of
the remains of a human body either below or above the surface of the ground.

(2) Cemetery means any place, including a mausoleum, in which there is
provided space either below or above the surface of the ground for the interment of
the remains of human bodies. Cemetery does not include a cemetery that is
owned, operated, or maintained by a government or governmental agency, by a
church or synagogue, by a labor organization, by a cooperative association as
defined in section 7-55-101, by a corporation organized and operated exclusively for
religious purposes, or by a fraternal society, order, or association operating under
the lodge system and exempt from the payment of state income tax and that has as
its main business something other than the ownership, operation, or maintenance of
any business connected with the burial of the dead.

(3) Cemetery authority means any person who owns, maintains, or operates
a cemetery.

(4) Endowment care cemetery means any cemetery, the authority of which
does, or represents to the public that it does, collect funds for the purpose of caring
for, maintaining, or embellishing the cemetery to preserve it from becoming
unkempt or a place of reproach and desolation. It does not include a cemetery
which is owned, operated, or maintained by a government or governmental agency,
by a church, by a labor organization, by a cooperative association as defined in
section 7-55-101, by a corporation organized and operated exclusively for religious
purposes, or by a fraternal society, order, or association operating under the lodge
system and exempt from the payment of state income tax and which has as its main
purpose something other than the ownership, operation, or maintenance of any
business connected with burial of the dead.

(5) Grave space means any space in the ground for the interment of the
remains of a human body.

(6) Inscription means any words or symbols on a burial memorial.

(7) Interment means the permanent disposition of the remains of a
deceased person by cremation, inurnment, entombment, or burial.

(8) Niche or crypt means a space in any structure above the ground for
the interment of the remains of a human body.

(9) Nonendowment care cemetery means any cemetery other than an
endowment care cemetery.

(10) Person means a person as defined by section 2-4-401 (8).