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Iowa Code § 523I.314A

Standards for interment spaces

Known as the Iowa Cemetery Act

The act spans §§ 523I.101 to 523I.814 (70 sections).

2007 Acts, ch 175, §46; 2012 Acts, ch 1009, §9

1. A standard interment space for full body interment developed on or after July 1, 2007, shall measure at least forty inches in width and ninety-six inches in length.

2. Prior to the sale of interment rights in an undeveloped area of a cemetery, internal reference markers shall be installed and maintained no more than one hundred feet apart. The internal reference markers shall be established with reference to survey markers that are no more than two hundred feet apart, have been set by a licensed professional land surveyor, and have been documented in a plat of survey. Both the map and the plat of survey shall be maintained by the cemetery and made available upon request to the commissioner and to members of the public.

Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.