§ 23-14-42-5 — Liability of cemetery acting upon request of registered co-owner of burial rights

Indiana § 23-14-42-5

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 23: BUSINESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
• Art. 14: CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
• Ch. 42: Burial Rights by Designation, Bequest, or Descent, and

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(a) If there are several owners of burial rights
in a burial plot, the owners may:
(1) designate in writing one (1) or more persons to represent
them; and
(2) file the written designation with the owner of the cemetery in
which the plot is located.
(b) In the absence of:
(1) the filing of a written designation of one (1) or more
representatives under subsection (a); or
(2) a written objection to the interment, entombment, or
inurnment;
a cemetery is not liable to any owner of burial rights in a burial plot for
interring, entombing, or inurning, or permitting an interment,
entombment, or inurnment in the burial plot upon the request or
direction of a registered co-owner of the burial rights.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.16.