§ 23-14-41-4 — Use of family burial plot

Indiana § 23-14-41-4

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 23: BUSINESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
• Art. 14: CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
• Ch. 41: Family Burial Lots

Text

(a) In a family burial plot:
(1) one (1) grave, crypt, or niche may be used for the record
owner's interment, entombment, or inurnment;
(2) after the record owner's interment, entombment, or inurnment,
one (1) grave, crypt, or niche may be used for the surviving
spouse of the record owner; and
(3) in the spaces remaining, if any, the parents and children of the
deceased record owner, in order of need, may be interred,
entombed, or inurned without the consent of any person claiming
an interest in the family burial plot.
(b) If there is no parent or child who survives the deceased record
owner, the right of interment, entombment, or inurnment in a family
burial plot shall go in order of need to:
(1) the heirs at law of the deceased record owner, or the spouse of
the heir if the heir is already interred, entombed, or inurned, as
specified by the statutes of descent; or
(2) the spouse of any heir at law of the deceased record owner.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.113-2007, SEC.1.