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Ind. Code § 23-14-59-1

Immunity from liability

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Kathy Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery v. Kristy Sams (2016)

Most recently applied in Kathy Salyer v. Washington Regular Baptist Church Cemetery v. Kristy Sams (November 2016)

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.33.

Sec. 1. A cemetery owner or anyone acting on behalf of a cemetery owner is not liable in any action for:

(1) a burial, entombment, or inurnment in the wrong lot, grave, grave space, burial space, crypt, crypt space, or niche;

(2) a disinterment, disentombment, or disinurnment of the wrong deceased remains;

(3) a repositioning of the remains of a deceased that encroach upon an adjacent lot, space, grave, grave space, or burial space;

(4) setting or installing a marker, monument, any type of memorial, or an outer burial container on the wrong lot, space, grave, grave space, or burial space; or

(5) installing any kind of foundation or other type of base for a marker, monument, or any type of memorial on the wrong lot or burial space.

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