New Jersey § 45:27-30

Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 45:27-30, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.

§ 45:27-30.

a. A cemetery company may adopt reasonable regulations on interment. In the absence of regulation, the cemetery company shall allow human remains of

the following persons to be interred in an available interment space: (1) a deceased person who at the time of death was an owner of the interment space; (2) the spouse of the deceased person who owned the interment space at the time of

death; and (3) any other person authorized by a written directive of the designated owner of

the interment space as provided in subsection b. of section 29 of this act, or if

there is no designated owner, by the written directive of any owner. b. The right of a person to be interred in an interment space may be waived in writing. The right terminates if the person is interred elsewhere. c. If more persons have a right to be interred in an interment space than may be interred

there, any person with a right to interment in the interment space may be interred

in it even though that will make the interment space unavailable to others. d. A person who signs an authorization for the disposition of human remains warrants

the truth of the facts stated, the identity of the human remains and the authority

to order the disposition. The person shall be liable for damages caused by a false statement or breach of

warranty. A cemetery or funeral director shall not be liable for disposition in accordance

with the authorization unless it had reasonable notice that the representations were

untrue or that the person lacked the right to control the disposition. An action against a cemetery company relating to the disposition of human remains

left in its temporary custody shall not be brought more than one year from the date

of delivery of the remains to the cemetery company unless otherwise provided by a

written contract.

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