Cemetery Act

The act regulates cemeteries and the sale of interment rights, setting requirements for interment spaces, memorials, outer burial containers, recordkeeping, and disclosure of prices, fees, and contract terms to purchasers, while prohibiting practices such as speculation in interment rights, sales commissions or bonuses, and discrimination. Administration rests with a designated state regulator empowered to adopt rules and forms, maintain a registry of new cemeteries, conduct examinations and investigations, issue subpoenas and cease and desist orders, seek injunctions and receiverships, and pursue civil penalties for fraudulent, misleading, or unauthorized conduct. It also governs the protection and public accessibility of cemeteries and burial sites, the care of neglected grounds, the interment, relocation, disinterment, and removal of remains, and county-level management of certain older burial sections.

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