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Rhode-Island
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Title 23 - Health and Safety
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Chapter 23-18 Cemeteries
Chapter 23-18 Cemeteries
Section 23-18-1 Definitions.
Section 23-18-2 Location of mausoleums and columbaria.
Section 23-18-2.1 Cremated human remains.
Section 23-18-3 Approval of construction plans - Supervisory control.
Section 23-18-4 Completion of structure and maintenance provisions required before interments.
Section 23-18-5 Sales before completion of structure - Bond.
Section 23-18-6 Proceeds of sales.
Section 23-18-7 Re-interment of bodies in structure becoming health menace.
Section 23-18-8 Speculative sales prohibited.
Section 23-18-8.1 Perpetual care funds.
Section 23-18-8.2 Additional deposits.
Section 23-18-8.3 Maintenance of perpetual care funds.
Section 23-18-9 Penalty for violations.
Section 23-18-10 City and town regulation of burial grounds.
Section 23-18-10.1 Registering historical cemeteries.
Section 23-18-10.2 Exemption from liability.
Section 23-18-11 Regulation of excavation around cemeteries.
Section 23-18-11.1 Permit required to alter or remove historic cemetery - Powers of city or town council - Appeal.
Section 23-18-11.2 Regulation of excavation - Removal and transfer of graves and cemeteries - Penalties.
Section 23-18-12 Vandalism in cemetery - Civil penalties.
Section 23-18-13 Notification of historical preservation and heritage commission.
Section 23-18-14 Records of disposition.
Section 23-18-15 Installation of veteran's plaque.