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Section
41-43-31

Title

Section
41-43-33

Who is subject to cemetery law

Section
41-43-35

Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries

Section
41-43-37

Operation as perpetual care cemetery; establishment of irrevocable perpetual care trust fund; registration system for perpetual care cemeteries

Section
41-43-38

Operation as perpetual care cemetery; accounting and reporting requirements; penalties for failure to timely file requisite accountings, records, reports or notices; sale or transfer of perpetual care cemetery; audits; procedure if perpetual care cemetery becomes subject of court ordered receivership

Section
41-43-39

Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations

Section
41-43-40

Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents

Section
41-43-41

Nonperpetual care cemetery may become perpetual care cemetery; all cemeteries created after July 1, 2009, to be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt

Section
41-43-43

Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds

Section
41-43-45

Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser

Section
41-43-47

Cemetery rules and regulations

Section
41-43-49

Repealed

Section
41-43-51

Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds

Section
41-43-53

Penalty for violations of Section 41-43-31 et seq.; punishment for embezzlement, misapplication or conversion of perpetual care trust funds

Section
41-43-55

Business records of all perpetual care cemeteries to be available for inspection and examination by Secretary of State; inspection of cemetery sites

Section
41-43-57

Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances