2015 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health And Welfare
Subtitle 2 - Health And Safety
Chapter 17 - Death and Disposition of the Dead
Subchapter 10 - Cemetery Act for Perpetually Maintained Cemeteries
§ 20-17-1002 - Definitions.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) "Care and maintenance" means the continual maintenance of the cemetery grounds and graves in keeping with a properly maintained cemetery;

(2) "Cemetery" means any land or structure in this state dedicated to and used or intended to be used for interment of human remains. It may be either a burial park for earth interments, a mausoleum for vault or crypt interments, or a combination of one (1) or more thereof;

(3) "Cemetery company" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association, now or hereafter organized, owning or controlling cemetery lands or property and conducting the business of a cemetery or making an application with the Arkansas Cemetery Board to own or control the lands or conduct the business;

(4) "Columbarium" means a structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of cremated human remains;

(5) "Crypt" means a chamber of sufficient size to inter the remains of a deceased person;

(6) "Infant interment garden" means a designated area in a perpetual care cemetery for the interments of infants and children no more than twenty-four (24) months of age;

(7) "Interment" means the lawful disposition of the remains of a deceased person as provided by law;

(8) "Lawn crypt" means an interment space sometimes referred to as a "belowground crypt", "westminister", or "turf top crypt" in a preplaced chamber or burial vault either side-by-side or at multiple depths, covered by earth and sod;

(9) "Lot or grave space" means a space of ground in a cemetery used or intended to be used for interment therein;

(10) "Mausoleum" means a community-type structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains in crypts or niches;

(11) "Niche" means a space in a columbarium that is used or intended to be used for the interment of the cremated remains of one (1) or more deceased persons;

(12) "Permit holder" means a cemetery company that holds a permit issued by the board to own or operate a perpetual care cemetery; and

(13) "Perpetual care cemetery" means a cemetery for the benefit of which a permanent maintenance fund has been established in accordance with this subchapter.