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23-14-48-1. Application of chapter

IN Code § 23-14-48-1 (2019) (N/A)
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Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), this chapter does not apply to:

(1) a cemetery owned by a municipal corporation or other governmental unit;

(2) a religious cemetery; or

(3) a cemetery:

(A) that is ten (10) acres or less in size;

(B) that is owned and operated entirely and exclusively by a nonprofit mutual association in existence on June 14, 1939; and

(C) in which burials have taken place before June 14, 1939.

(b) If a cemetery described in subsection (a)(3) directly or indirectly:

(1) constructs or permits to be constructed any structure, above or below ground, and offers interment rights in the structure for sale to the general public; or

(2) acquires:

(A) additional land; or

(B) an interest in additional land;

causing the cemetery to exceed ten (10) acres in size;

this chapter applies to the whole of the cemetery.

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.22.

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