§ 23-14-60-1 — Defective cemetery associations and corporations; rights and powers

Indiana § 23-14-60-1

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 23: BUSINESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
• Art. 14: CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
• Ch. 60: Legalization of Defectively Formed Cemetery

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(a) If:
(1) any number of persons have:
(A) acted together as an association or corporation;
(B) acquired, as an association or corporation, land for
cemetery purposes;
(C) sold and granted to persons the right to bury the dead in lots
located on the land; and
(D) actually managed and controlled the land as a cemetery for
at least thirty (30) years; but
(2) the organization that the persons attempted to establish as a
corporation or cemetery association is defective and incomplete
because of a failure to comply with the formalities required by
law in force at some time since the original parties first assumed
to act as an association or corporation;
the owners of the right to bury the dead on lots in the cemetery and
those who may acquire the right become and continue to be a cemetery
association or corporation from March 14, 1913.
(b) The owners of the right to bury the dead on lots in a cemetery
referred to in subsection (a) have all the rights and powers of a
cemetery association or corporation organized under this article, IC 23-1, or IC 23-17.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.2-2002, SEC.74; P.L.163-2006, SEC.2.