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2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 41 - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.
- 41-43-1 - Regulation of cemeteries in the vicinity of hospitals; private family cemeteries.
- 41-43-3 - Appointment of trustee for private or family cemetery or burying ground.
- 41-43-5 - Use of vacant portions of lots by not-for-profit cemetery permitted under certain circumstances; notice to potential living heirs of original purchaser; recordkeeping.
- 41-43-7 - Penalty for violation of chapter.
- 41-43-31 - Title.
- 41-43-33 - Who is subject to cemetery law.
- 41-43-35 - Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries.
- 41-43-37 - Operation as perpetual care cemetery; establishment of irrevocable perpetual care trust fund; registration system for perpetual care cemeteries.
- 41-43-38 - Operation as perpetual care cemetery; accounting and reporting requirements; penalties for failure to timely file requisite accountings, records, reports or notices; sale or transfer of perpetual care cemetery; audits.
- 41-43-39 - Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations.
- 41-43-40 - Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents.
- 41-43-41 - Nonperpetual care cemetery may become perpetual care cemetery; all cemeteries created after July 1, 2009, to be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt.
- 41-43-43 - Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds.
- 41-43-45 - Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser.
- 41-43-47 - Cemetery rules and regulations.
- 41-43-49 - Repealed.
- 41-43-51 - Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds.
- 41-43-53 - Penalty for violations of Section 41-43-31 et seq.
- 41-43-55 - Business records of all perpetual care cemeteries to be available for inspection and examination by Secretary of State; inspection of cemetery sites.
- 41-43-57 - Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances.
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