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2024 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 23 - Health and Safety
Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries
- Section 23-18-1. - Definitions.
- Section 23-18-2. - Location of mausoleums and columbaria.
- Section 23-18-2.1. - Cremated human remains.
- Section 23-18-3. - Approval of construction plans — Supervisory control.
- Section 23-18-4. - Completion of structure and maintenance provisions required before interments.
- Section 23-18-5. - Sales before completion of structure — Bond.
- Section 23-18-6. - Proceeds of sales.
- Section 23-18-7. - Re-interment of bodies in structure becoming health menace.
- Section 23-18-8. - Speculative sales prohibited.
- Section 23-18-8.1. - Perpetual care funds.
- Section 23-18-8.2. - Additional deposits.
- Section 23-18-8.3. - Maintenance of perpetual care funds.
- Section 23-18-9. - Penalty for violations.
- Section 23-18-10. - City and town regulation of burial grounds.
- Section 23-18-10.1. - Registering historical cemeteries.
- Section 23-18-10.2. - Exemption from liability.
- Section 23-18-11. - Regulation of excavation around cemeteries.
- Section 23-18-11.1. - Permit required to alter or remove historic cemetery — Powers of city or town council — Appeal.
- Section 23-18-11.2. - Regulation of excavation — Removal and transfer of graves and cemeteries — Penalties.
- Section 23-18-12. - Vandalism in cemetery — Civil penalties.
- Section 23-18-13. - Notification of historical preservation and heritage commission.
- Section 23-18-14. - Records of disposition.
- Section 23-18-15. - Installation of veteran’s plaque.
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