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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 21:41:10+00:00

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Nothing in chapter 711 expressly prohibits the burial of non-humans in a cemetery. A number of provisions, however, are couched in language from which it might be reasonably inferred that burial is limited to humans. . . . Nevertheless, we are loath to infer an express prohibition in such an indirect manner. . . SUMMARY: §713.027 of the Texas Health and Safety Code authorizes a commissioner’s court in a county of fewer than 8,200 to determine whether non-human animals may be buried in a cemetery owned and operated by the county.
A cemetery organization dedicates portions of its property for human burial by filing a public declaration of dedication with the county clerk. The effect of publicly dedicating cemetery property is to commit the land to a public purpose different from any other land. Once a cemetery organization publicly dedicates property, the organization cannot use that property for any purpose other than for human burial. Moreover, once a cemetery organization dedicates property, the dedication may be removed only through judicial proceedings. In effect, the dedication fixes the property’s use. Thus, once dedicated, the property not only must be used “exclusively for cemetery purposes” as required by the health and safety code, but also must be used “exclusively for human burial” as contemplated by the tax code. Publicly dedicating cemetery property, therefore, not only satisfies the health and safety code’s prerequisite for tax exemption, but also satisfies the first condition of the two-part test for tax exemption set forth in the tax code.
Laurel Land Memorial Park, Inc. v. Dallas Central Appraisal District, 911 S.W.2d 783, 787 (Tex. App.—Dallas 1995, writ denied)(emphasis added; citations omitted). It should be noted, however, that the court in Laurel Land did not face the issue of pet burial.
B. The opinion of the Texas Department of Banking.
§711.002(a): The following “persons” have the right to control the disposition of a decedent’s remains: “(1) the person designated in a written instrument signed by the decedent; (2) the decedent’s surviving spouse; (3) any one of the decedent’s surviving adult children;” etc.
§711.004: The following “persons” may consent to removal of interred remains: “(1) the decedent’s surviving spouse; (2) the decedent’s surviving adult children;” etc.
See also, Shields v. Karns, 622 N.E.2d 673 (Ohio Ct. App. 1993) and St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church v. Bean, 22 Montg. 74, 15 Pa.D. 636 (Ct. of Common Pleas of Pa. 1906). The department’s opinion letter concluded that “a legislative change would be required before pets could be buried in cemeteries for humans.” Op. Tex. Dep’t of Banking No. LO 12-01 (May 9, 2012).
There have been recent accounts in the news about pet owners who have made the decision to have their remains buried beside those of their pets in a pet cemetery. Often, the cost is less to bury human remains in a pet cemetery than it is to bury them in a cemetery for humans. There is as yet no statute in Texas regulating pet cemeteries. See Op. Tex. Dep’t of Banking No. LO 12-01 (May 9, 2012). Although a pet cemetery is not a “dedicated cemetery” as was in issue in LO 12-01, nevertheless, once human remains have been interred in a pet cemetery, it would seem that the pet cemetery thereafter would fall within Chapter 711’s definition of “cemetery”: i.e., “a place that is used or intended to be used for interment, and includes a graveyard . . . or any other area containing one or more graves.” See id. §711.001(2)(emphasis added). The term grave means, in part, “a space of ground that contains interred human remains.” Id. §711.001(14). Thus, once the decision has been made by the owner of a pet cemetery to permit the interment of human remains therein, then it would seem that the pet cemetery has acquired a “cemetery purpose” (that is, “a purpose necessary or incidental . . . to interring [human] remains.” See id. §711.001(4) and (28)). If so, then the appropriate cemetery organization must survey the property into gardens or sections, see id. §711.034(a)(1), make a map or plat of the property showing the plots contained therein and showing a specific unique number for each plot, see id., file the map or plat with the county clerk of each county in which the property or any part of the property is located, see id. §711.034(b), and file with the map or plat a written certificate or declaration dedicating the property exclusively to cemetery purposes, see id. §711.034(c). Thus, once a pet cemetery contains but a single human grave, then—under the logic of LO 12-01—it can no longer be used to inter the remains of pets.
As for my opinion, I don't see a problem with your pet being buried on a dedicated cemetery. I mean, that is the point there. There is a dedicated cemetery which means they are built or created because it if dedicated for them.
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