Indiana § 23-14-40-8 - Restrictions on burial rights
Full text of Indiana Indiana Code § 23-14-40-8 — Restrictions on burial rights, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 23-14-40-8. Restrictions on burial rights
Sec. 8. A vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment under this chapter does not give any individual the right to:
(1) have the individual's remains interred, entombed, or inurned in any interment, entombment, or inurnment space in which the remains of a deceased individual having a prior vested right of interment, entombment, or inurnment have been deposited; or
(2) have the remains of more than one (1) deceased individual interred, entombed, or inurned in a single interment or entombment space or niche in violation of the rules and regulations of the cemetery in which the interment or entombment space or inurnment niche is located.
As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.14.
IC 23-14-41Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots
23-14-41-1Application of chapter 23-14-41-2"Burial plot" defined 23-14-41-3Holding of family burial plot 23-14-41-4Use of family burial plot 23-14-41-5Waiver of burial rights 23-14-41-6Affidavit permitting use of family burial plot 23-14-41-7Termination and transfer of family burial plot
Source: official Indiana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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