Indiana Statutes

§ 23-14-59-1 — Immunity from liability

Indiana·Title 23 BUSINESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS·Art. 14 CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS·Ch. 59 Potential Liability of Cemetery Owner

A cemetery owner or anyone acting on behalf of a cemetery owner is not liable in any action for:

(1)a burial, entombment, or inurnment in the wrong lot, grave, grave space, burial space, crypt, crypt space, or niche;
(2)a disinterment, disentombment, or disinurnment of the wrong deceased remains;
(3)a repositioning of the remains of a deceased that encroach upon an adjacent lot, space, grave, grave space, or burial space;
(4)setting or installing a marker, monument, any type of memorial, or an outer burial container on the wrong lot, space, grave, grave space, or burial space; or
(5)installing any kind of foundation or other type of base for a marker, monument, or any type of memorial on the wrong lot or burial space.

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Related

Kathy Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery v. Kristy Sams
63 N.E.3d 1091 (Indiana Court of Appeals, 2016)
2 case citations

Legislative History

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.33.

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