2017 Indiana Code
TITLE 23. Business and other Associations
ARTICLE 14. CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
CHAPTER 59. Potential Liability of Cemetery Owner
23-14-59-2. Duties of owner upon wrongful burial
Sec. 2. When a wrongful burial, entombment, inurnment, disinterment, disentombment, or disinurnment referred to in section 1(1), 1(2), 1(4), or 1(5) of this chapter occurs, the cemetery owner shall:
(1) at the expense of the cemetery owner, correct the wrongful burial, entombment, inurnment, disinterment, disentombment, or disinurnment as soon as practical after becoming aware of the error; and
(2) notify:
(A) the spouse, if living, of the deceased person whose remains were wrongfully buried, entombed, inurned, disinterred, disentombed, or disinurned, or whose outer burial container was wrongfully placed;
(B) the parents, if living, of a deceased minor child whose remains were wrongfully buried, entombed, inurned, disinterred, disentombed, or disinurned, or whose outer burial container was wrongfully placed;
(C) the person or persons whose marker, monument, memorial, foundation, or base was wrongfully placed; or
(D) the person or persons who authorized the original burial, entombment, inurnment, disinterment, disentombment, or disinurnment;
of the occurrence.
As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.33.
