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IN Code § 23-14-38-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 38. Construction of Mausoleums and Vaults|23-14-38-2. Removal and Reinterment of Bodies From Burial Structure Declared to Be Public Nuisance; Removal of Mausoleum or Vault; Costs

Sec. 2. (a) This section applies if:(1) a person fails to maintain a mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure in a good state of repair; and(2) by reason of the failure referred to in subdivision (1), a court of competent jurisdiction declares the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure to be a public nuisance.(b) The deceased body or bodies interred in the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure shall be removed and properly interred:(1) within thirty (30) days after the judgment declaring the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure to be a nuisance, if the judgment is not appealed; or(2) if the judgment is appealed, within thirty (30) days after the judgment is upheld on appeal.(c) The mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure shall be removed:(1) within one hundred eighty (180) days after the judgment declaring the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure to be a nuisance, if the judgment is not appealed; or(2) if the judgment is appealed, within one hundred eighty (180) days after the judgment is upheld on appeal.(d) The cost of reinterring the bodies under subsection (b) and removing the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure under subsection (c) shall be paid:(1) by the person who owns the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure; or(2) if the person who owns the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure is not found, by the county in which the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or structure is located.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.12.
IN Code § 23-14-38-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 38. Construction of Mausoleums and Vaults|23-14-38-3. Violation of Chapter; Class B Misdemeanor

Sec. 3. A person who recklessly fails to comply with this chapter commits a Class B misdemeanor.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.12.
IN Code § 23-14-39-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 39. Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-39-1. Application of Chapter

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to:(1) all burial rights in cemeteries organized or created after June 14, 1939; and(2) cemeteries that:(A) were in existence on June 14, 1939; and(B) do not have a rule or regulation in conflict with this chapter.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.13.
IN Code § 23-14-39-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 39. Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-39-2. Individual Property Rights

Sec. 2. Except as provided in section 3 of this chapter, the burial rights in a lot, plot, burial space, crypt, or niche granted to an individual are the sole and separate property of the individual named as grantee in the instrument of grant.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.13.
IN Code § 23-14-39-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 39. Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-39-3. Vested Rights of Spouse of Grantee; Effect of Dissolution of Marriage

Sec. 3. (a) If the grantee of a burial plot containing more than one (1) interment, entombment, or inurnment space is married at the time of the grant of the burial plot, the spouse of the grantee has a vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment of the spouse's remains in the burial plot, unless the terms of the grant are inconsistent with burial rights of the grantee's spouse.(b) If:(1) a burial plot containing more than one (1) interment, entombment, or inurnment space is granted; and(2) the grantee becomes married after the grant of the burial plot;the grantee's spouse has a vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment in the plot if more than one (1) interment, entombment, or inurnment space in the plot remains unoccupied when the individual becomes the spouse of the grantee.(c) No transfer or other action of a grantee referred to in subsection (a) or (b) divests the grantee's spouse of the vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment recognized in subsection (a) or (b) unless:(1) the spouse joins in the transfer or other action; or(2) the written consent of the spouse is endorsed on or attached to the transfer or other action.(d) A final dissolution of marriage decree between a grantee referred to in subsection (a) or (b) and the grantee's spouse terminates the spouse's vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment recognized in subsection (a) or (b) unless the dissolution of marriage decree provides otherwise.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.13.
IN Code § 23-14-40-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-1. Application of Chapter

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to:(1) all burial rights in cemeteries organized or created after June 14, 1939; and(2) cemeteries that:(A) were in existence on June 14, 1939; and(B) do not have a rule or regulation in conflict with this chapter.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-40-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-2. Application of Chapter; Multispace Plots

Sec. 2. This chapter applies to burial rights in a burial plot containing more than one (1) interment, entombment, or inurnment space.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-40-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-3. Certain Burial Rights Owned With Right of Survivorship

Sec. 3. Any burial rights that are held in joint tenancy by two (2) or more persons who are not husband and wife are owned with the right of survivorship.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-40-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-4. Burial Rights Held in Joint Tenancy by Husband and Wife

Sec. 4. If the owners of burial rights held in joint tenancy are husband and wife, the title shall be recognized as a tenancy by the entirety, and the right of interment, entombment, or inurnment shall be vested and controlled equally by both while living, or, after the death of one (1) spouse, by the surviving spouse or the surviving spouse's successor in interest.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-40-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-5. Burial Rights of Joint Tenants

Sec. 5. In a grant of burial rights to two (2) or more persons as joint tenants, each joint tenant has a vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment of the joint tenant's remains in the burial plot. Upon the death of a joint tenant, the title to the burial rights previously held in joint tenancy immediately vests in the survivor or survivors, subject to the vested right of interment, entombment, inurnment for the remains of the deceased joint tenant owner.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-40-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-6. Rights of Surviving Joint Tenant

Sec. 6. If an affidavit by a competent person that:(1) sets forth the fact of the death of one (1) joint tenant; and(2) establishes the identity of the surviving joint tenant, who is named in the instrument of grant of burial right in a cemetery plot;is filed with the cemetery in which the plot is located, the affidavit is complete authority to the cemetery to permit the use of the unoccupied portion of the plot in accordance with the direction of the surviving joint tenant or the successor in interest of the surviving joint tenant.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-40-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-7. Waiver or Termination of Burial Rights

Sec. 7. If an individual has a vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment of the remains of the individual in a particular plot under this chapter, the right:(1) may be waived by the individual in a written instrument; or(2) is terminated upon the interment, entombment, or inurnment of the remains of the individual in a location other than the plot.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-40-8 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 40. Joint Burial Rights in Multispace Plots|23-14-40-8. Restrictions on Burial Rights

Sec. 8. A vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment under this chapter does not give any individual the right to:(1) have the individual's remains interred, entombed, or inurned in any interment, entombment, or inurnment space in which the remains of a deceased individual having a prior vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment have been deposited; or(2) have the remains of more than one (1) deceased individual interred, entombed, or inurned in a single interment or entombment space or niche in violation of the rules and regulations of the cemetery in which the interment or entombment space or inurnment niche is located.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IN Code § 23-14-41-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots|23-14-41-1. Application of Chapter

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to all burial rights in:(1) cemeteries organized or created after June 14, 1939; and(2) cemeteries that:(A) were in existence on June 14, 1939; and(B) do not have a rule or regulation in conflict with this chapter.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15.
IN Code § 23-14-41-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots|23-14-41-2. "Burial Plot" Defined

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "burial plot" means the unit of space, consisting of one (1) or more:(1) grave spaces;(2) mausoleum crypts;(3) garden crypts; or(4) niches;originally conveyed by the cemetery and remaining after any transfers made by the record owner during the record owner's life.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15.
IN Code § 23-14-41-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots|23-14-41-3. Holding of Family Burial Plot

Sec. 3. Upon the death of the record owner of the burial rights in a burial plot, the burial plot shall be held as the family burial plot of the deceased owner, if:(1) the remains of the record owner have been interred, entombed, inurned, or disposed of;(2) the record owner did not dispose of the burial rights by a specific devise in the owner's last will and testament or by a written designation or transfer of ownership recorded with the cemetery under IC 23-14-42; and(3) there is at least one (1) interment, entombment, or inurnment in the burial plot.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15.
IN Code § 23-14-41-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots|23-14-41-4. Use of Family Burial Plot

Sec. 4. (a) In a family burial plot:(1) one (1) grave, crypt, or niche may be used for the record owner's interment, entombment, or inurnment;(2) after the record owner's interment, entombment, or inurnment, one (1) grave, crypt, or niche may be used for the surviving spouse of the record owner; and(3) in the spaces remaining, if any, the parents and children of the deceased record owner, in order of need, may be interred, entombed, or inurned without the consent of any person claiming an interest in the family burial plot.(b) If there is no parent or child who survives the deceased record owner, the right of interment, entombment, or inurnment in a family burial plot shall go in order of need to:(1) the heirs at law of the deceased record owner, or the spouse of the heir if the heir is already interred, entombed, or inurned, as specified by the statutes of descent; or(2) the spouse of any heir at law of the deceased record owner.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.113-2007, SEC.1.
IN Code § 23-14-41-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots|23-14-41-5. Waiver of Burial Rights

Sec. 5. (a) A:(1) surviving spouse; or(2) parent, child, or heir;of the deceased record owner of a family burial plot who has a right of interment, entombment, or inurnment in the plot may waive that right in favor of another relative or spouse of the deceased record owner through a written instrument that is recorded with the cemetery.(b) After a written waiver is recorded under subsection (a), the body of the individual in whose favor the waiver is made may be interred, entombed, or inurned in the family burial plot.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15.
IN Code § 23-14-41-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots|23-14-41-6. Affidavit Permitting Use of Family Burial Plot

Sec. 6. An affidavit that sets forth:(1) the fact of the death of the record owner of the burial rights in a family burial plot; and(2) the name of the individual or individuals who are entitled to use the family burial plot in accordance with this chapter;is complete authority to the cemetery to permit the use of the unoccupied portions of the family burial plot by the individual or individuals who are shown by the affidavit to be entitled to use the family burial plot.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15.
IN Code § 23-14-41-7 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots|23-14-41-7. Termination and Transfer of Family Burial Plot

Sec. 7. If a family burial plot has been established under section 3 of this chapter and all the living children and parents of the deceased record owner consent in writing, the status as a family burial plot may be terminated and the remaining lots may be transferred, conveyed, or sold to the cemetery owner or any other person designated in the agreement.As added by P.L.113-2007, SEC.2.
IN Code § 23-14-42-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42. Burial Rights by Designation, Bequest, or Descent, and Rights of Co-Owners|23-14-42-1. "Burial Plot" Defined

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "burial plot" means the unit of space consisting of one (1) or more:(1) grave spaces;(2) mausoleum crypts;(3) garden crypts; or(4) niches;that was originally conveyed by the cemetery and remaining after any transfers made by the record owner during the record owner's life.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.16.
IN Code § 23-14-42-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42. Burial Rights by Designation, Bequest, or Descent, and Rights of Co-Owners|23-14-42-2. Designation of Remains Permitted to Be Interred

Sec. 2. The owner of the burial rights in any burial plot has the right by a proper instrument recorded with the cemetery to designate specifically whose remains only shall be interred, entombed, or inurned in the burial plot after the owner's death.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.16.
IN Code § 23-14-42-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42. Burial Rights by Designation, Bequest, or Descent, and Rights of Co-Owners|23-14-42-3. Transfer of Burial Rights

Sec. 3. The owner of the burial rights in any burial plot may, during the life of the owner, transfer all rights and interest in the burial plot to any other person through sale or another method. However, a transfer under this section:(1) must be recorded with the cemetery to be valid; and(2) is subject to the rules and regulations of the cemetery owner.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.16.
IN Code § 23-14-42-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42. Burial Rights by Designation, Bequest, or Descent, and Rights of Co-Owners|23-14-42-4. Burial Rights Passing as Part of Estate

Sec. 4. Upon the death of the record owner of the burial rights in a burial plot, the burial rights pass as part of the estate of the owner if:(1) the record owner did not dispose of the burial rights by:(A) a specific devise in the last will and testament of the record owner; or(B) a written designation or transfer of ownership recorded with the cemetery under section 2 or 3 of this chapter;(2) the burial rights have not become vested in another individual under IC 23-14-39 or IC 23-14-40;(3) the burial plot does not become a family burial plot under IC 23-14-41 before the instrument referred to in subdivision (4) is recorded with the cemetery; and(4) an instrument that:(A) is prepared in accordance with IC 29-1; and(B) documents the person or persons entitled to become the new record owner or owners of the burial plot and to receive the burial rights as part of the deceased record owner's estate;is recorded with the cemetery.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.16.
IN Code § 23-14-42-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42. Burial Rights by Designation, Bequest, or Descent, and Rights of Co-Owners|23-14-42-5. Liability of Cemetery Acting Upon Request of Registered Co-Owner of Burial Rights

Sec. 5. (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.As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.16.
IN Code § 23-14-42.5-1 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42.5. Burial With Law Enforcement Animals or Service Animals|23-14-42.5-1. "Animal"

Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "animal" refers to a:(1) law enforcement animal; or(2) military animal.As added by P.L.176-2016, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.106-2017, SEC.1.
IN Code § 23-14-42.5-2 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42.5. Burial With Law Enforcement Animals or Service Animals|23-14-42.5-2. "Burial Plot"

Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "burial plot" means an individual grave space that is used or intended to be used for the interment of the remains of a deceased individual.As added by P.L.176-2016, SEC.1.
IN Code § 23-14-42.5-3 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42.5. Burial With Law Enforcement Animals or Service Animals|23-14-42.5-3. "Deceased Animal"

Sec. 3. As used in this chapter, "deceased animal" means a deceased animal:(1) that was owned by or assigned to assist the deceased owner during the deceased owner's lifetime;(2) whose death occurs before, after, or simultaneously with the death of the deceased owner; and(3) the remains of which have been cremated and placed in a temporary container or an urn.As added by P.L.176-2016, SEC.1.
IN Code § 23-14-42.5-4 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42.5. Burial With Law Enforcement Animals or Service Animals|23-14-42.5-4. "Deceased Owner"

Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "deceased owner" refers to the deceased record owner of burial rights in a burial plot.As added by P.L.176-2016, SEC.1.
IN Code § 23-14-42.5-5 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42.5. Burial With Law Enforcement Animals or Service Animals|23-14-42.5-5. "Law Enforcement Animal"

Sec. 5. (a) As used in this chapter, "law enforcement animal" means a dog that is owned or used by a law enforcement agency for the principal purposes of:(1) aiding in:(A) the detection of criminal activity;(B) the enforcement of laws; and(C) the apprehension of offenders; and(2) ensuring the public welfare.(b) The term includes the following:(1) An arson investigation dog.(2) A bomb detection dog.(3) A narcotic detection dog.(4) A patrol dog.As added by P.L.176-2016, SEC.1.
IN Code § 23-14-42.5-6 (2021)
2021 Indiana Code|Title 23. Business and Other Associations|Article 14. Cemetery Associations|Chapter 42.5. Burial With Law Enforcement Animals or Service Animals|23-14-42.5-6. "Military Animal"

Sec. 6. As used in this chapter, "military animal" refers to a military working dog described in 10 U.S.C. 2583.As added by P.L.176-2016, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.106-2017, SEC.2.