§ 23-14-59-2 — Duties of owner upon wrongful burial

Indiana § 23-14-59-2

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

Text

When a wrongful burial, entombment,
inurnment, disinterment, disentombment, or disinurnment referred to
in section 1(1), 1(2), 1(4), or 1(5) of this chapter occurs, the cemetery
owner shall:
(1) at the expense of the cemetery owner, correct the wrongful
burial, entombment, inurnment, disinterment, disentombment, or
disinurnment as soon as practical after becoming aware of the
error; and
(2) notify:
(A) the spouse, if living, of the deceased person whose remains
were wrongfully buried, entombed, inurned, disinterred,
disentombed, or disinurned, or whose outer burial container
was wrongfully placed;
(B) the parents, if living, of a deceased minor child whose
remains were wrongfully buried, entombed, inurned,
disinterred, disentombed, or disinurned, or whose outer burial
container was wrongfully placed;
(C) the person or persons whose marker, monument, memorial,
foundation, or base was wrongfully placed; or
(D) the person or persons who authorized the original burial,
entombment, inurnment, disinterment, disentombment, or
disinurnment;
of the occurrence.

Legislative History

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