Codes
And
Regulations

This page last updated August 7, 2003

Primary Materials - Indiana Cemetery Cases, Codes and Regulations - Please let us know about additional current or pending Indiana cemetery protection laws.

• IC 6-1.1-6.8 - Assessment of Cemetery Land 
• IC 14 - 21 - Historic Preservation and Archeology
  • CHAPTER 1 - Historic Preservation and Archeology 
  • CHAPTER 2 - Cemetery Preservation 
  • CHAPTER 3 - Recording Interests in Property Containing A Burial Ground or Cemetery 
• IC 23 -14 - Cemetery Associations
  • CHAPTER 31 - Cremation 
  • CHAPTER 32 - Curfews   
  • CHAPTER 33 - Application and Definitions of Cemetery Law
  • CHAPTER 34 - Mandatory Recording of Survey and Plat
  • CHAPTER 35 - Requirements Applying to Cemetery Plats
  • CHAPTER 36 - Commencement of The Sale of Burial Rights
  • CHAPTER 37 - Unlawful Inducements in the Sale of Burial Rights
  • CHAPTER 38 - Construction of Mausoleums and Vaults
  • CHAPTER 39 - Burial Rights in Multi-Space Plots
  • CHAPTER 40 - Joint Burial Rights in Multi-Space Plots
  • CHAPTER 41 - Family Burial Lots
  • CHAPTER 42 - Burial Rights by Designation, Bequest or Descent, and Rights of Co-Owners
  • CHAPTER 43 - Assessments to Improve Cemetery Roads
  • CHAPTER 44 - Prohibition on Road and Utility Construction in Cemeteries
  • CHAPTER 45 - Construction of Railroads on Cemeteries Prohibited
  • CHAPTER 46 - Cemetery Rules and Regulations and Exclusive Rights 
  • CHAPTER 47 - Use, Sale and Installation of Monuments and Other Commodities 
  • CHAPTER 48 - Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund 
  • CHAPTER 49 - Cemetery Escrow or Trust Accounts 
  • CHAPTER 50 - The Nature of Cemetery Funds 
  • CHAPTER 51 - The Investment and Use of Cemetery Funds 
  • CHAPTER 52 - Conditions Applying to the Sale of A Cemetery 
  • CHAPTER 53 - Bequests for Care 
  • CHAPTER 54 - Disposition of Dead Human Bodies 
  • CHAPTER 55 - Authorization for Internment, Entombment, or Inurnment 
  • CHAPTER 56 - Record Keeping 
  • CHAPTER 57 - Disinterment, Disentombment, and Disinurnment
  • CHAPTER 58 - Abandonment and Reburial 
  • CHAPTER 59 - Potential Liability of Cemetery Owner 
  • CHAPTER 60 - Legalization of Defectively Formed Cemetery Associations and Corporations 
  • CHAPTER 61 - Conflicts of Interests by Cemetery Employees 
  • CHAPTER 62 - Conveyance of County Cemeteries to Private Corporations  
  • CHAPTER 63 - Conveyance of Township Cemeteries to Private Corporations
  • CHAPTER 64 - Conveyance of Cemetery Association Land to Private Corporations
  • CHAPTER 65 - City and Town Cemeteries
  • CHAPTER 66 - Care of Cemeteries by Third Class Cities and Towns
  • CHAPTER 67 - Care of Cemeteries by Counties
  • CHAPTER 68 - Care of Cemeteries by Townships
  • CHAPTER 69 - Establishment of Public Cemeteries by Townships
  • CHAPTER 70 - Trusts for Cemetery Association
  • CHAPTER 71 - Union Chapel Cemetery Association
  • CHAPTER 72 - Annexation of Unincorporated Cemetery 
  • CHAPTER 73 - Grave Markers of Deceased Soldiers 
  • CHAPTER 74 - Cemetery Fenced and Upkeep 
  • CHAPTER 75 - Eminent Domain and Acquisition of Cemetery Land 
  • CHAPTER 76 - Application of Corporations Laws to Cemetery Associations