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2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 23 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 23-18 - Cemeteries
- § 23-18-1 - Definitions.
- § 23-18-2 - Location of mausoleums and columbaria.
- § 23-18-2.1 - Cremated human remains.
- § 23-18-3 - Approval of construction plans Supervisory control.
- § 23-18-4 - Completion of structure and maintenance provisions required before interments.
- § 23-18-5 - Sales before completion of structure Bond.
- § 23-18-6 - Proceeds of sales.
- § 23-18-7 - Re-interment of bodies in structure becoming health menace.
- § 23-18-8 - Speculative sales prohibited.
- § 23-18-8.1 - Perpetual care funds.
- § 23-18-8.2 - Additional deposits.
- § 23-18-8.3 - Maintenance of perpetual care funds.
- § 23-18-9 - Penalty for violations.
- § 23-18-10 - City and town regulation of burial grounds.
- § 23-18-10.1 - Registering historical cemeteries.
- § 23-18-10.2 - Exemption from liability.
- § 23-18-11 - Regulation of excavation around cemeteries.
- § 23-18-11.1 - Permit required to alter or remove historic cemetery Powers of city or town council Appeal.
- § 23-18-11.2 - Regulation of excavation Removal and transfer of graves and cemeteries Penalties.
- § 23-18-12 - Vandalism in cemetery Civil penalties.
- § 23-18-13 - Notification of state archaeologist.
- § 23-18-14 - Records of disposition.
- § 23-18-15 - Installation of veteran's plaque.
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