New Jersey Cemetery Act

New Jersey · Professions and Occupations · §§ 45:27-1 to 45:27-9 · 43 sections

Overview

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.

Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.

Sections covered

N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-1Short title
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-10Voting rights of members
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-11Reinstatement in perpetuity of certain cemetery associations
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-12Maintenance and Preservation Fund
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-13Capital required for issuance of certificate of authority; fees and charges
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-14Deposit for maintenance of private mausoleum; other funding requirements
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-15Annual report
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-15.1Additional reporting requirements for certain cemetery companies
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-16Duties, powers of cemetery company; restrictions
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-17Copy of survey map, filing with board
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-18Filing requirements with board; public information
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-19Record of interment, placement of cremains
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-2Definitions relative to cemeteries
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-20Exemption from certain taxes
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-21Dedication of property to cemetery purposes
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-22Control of funeral, disposition of remains; priority classes
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-23Removal of remains from interment space
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-24Removal of memorial, embellishment, impediment
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-25Consent of municipality for establishment, enlargement of cemetery
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-26Issuance of certificates
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-27Permit for public mausoleum
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-28Transfer of interment space, niche
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-29Multiple owners of interment space
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-3New Jersey Cemetery Board continued
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-30Regulations on interment
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-31Maintenance of interment spaces
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-32Resale of interment space
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-33Reclamation of grave, crypt
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-34Lease, transfer of land, interest in land
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-35License required for cemetery salesperson
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-36Issuance, renewal of license
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-37Application for cemetery salesperson license
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-38Action instituted by board
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-39Prior approval required for construction of crematory
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-4Responsibilities of board
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-40Permitted locations of crematory
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-41Registry of cemetery companies accepting payment for recipients of Work First New Jersey, SSI
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-5Notice of actions, proceedings involving cemetery companies
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-6Ownership, operation of cemetery, forms authorized
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-7Cemetery company, nonprofit corporation, certificate of authority
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-7.1Certificate of authority to provide management services for a cemetery, issuance to certain for-profit entities
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-8Purposes of cemetery company
N.J. Stat. Ann. § 45:27-9Amendment of charter, certificate of incorporation

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