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Wis. Stat. § 157.635

Regulations of cemetery organized and operated by, or affiliated with, a religious association

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case St. Augustine School v. Carolyn Stanford Taylor (2021)

Most recently applied in St. Augustine School v. Carolyn Stanford Taylor (July 2021)

1989 a. 307; 2015 a. 237.

Nothing in this subchapter prohibits a religious association or a cemetery authority of a cemetery that is affiliated with a religious association from prohibiting the burial of the human remains of an individual in the cemetery if the individual was in a class of individuals who are prohibited under regulations adopted by the cemetery authority or religious association from being buried in the cemetery.

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