Chapter
Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-1— Regulation of cemeteries in the vicinity of hospitals; private family cemeteries
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-3— Appointment of trustee for private or family cemetery or burying ground
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-5— Use of vacant portions of lots by not-for-profit cemetery permitted under certain circumstances; notice to potential living heirs of original purchaser; recordkeeping
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-7— Penalty for violation of chapter; appeal
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-31— Title
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-33— Who is subject to cemetery law
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-35— Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-37— Operation as perpetual care cemetery; establishment of irrevocable perpetual care trust fund; registration system for perpetual care cemeteries
- Miss. Code Ann. § 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
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-39— Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-40— Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents
- Miss. Code Ann. § 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
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-43— Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-45— Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-47— Cemetery rules and regulations
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-49— Repealed
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-51— Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-53— Penalty for violations of Section 41-43-31 et seq.; punishment for embezzlement, misapplication or conversion of perpetual care trust funds
- Miss. Code Ann. § 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
- Miss. Code Ann. § 41-43-57— Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances