Liability of Cemetery Acting Upon Request of Registered Co-Owner of Burial Rights

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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.


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