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2025 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 157 - Disposition of human remains.
CORPSES
- 157.01 - Rules for preparation, transportation and disposition.
- 157.02 - Disposal of unclaimed corpses.
- 157.03 - Restrictions on use of bodies for anatomical purposes; embalming such bodies; delivery of bodies to relatives.
- 157.04 - Penalty.
- 157.05 - Autopsy.
- 157.055 - Disposal of human remains during state of emergency relating to public health.
- 157.06 - Anatomical gifts.
- 157.061 - Definitions.
- 157.062 - Cemetery associations; creation; powers and duties.
- 157.064 - Cemetery associations and religious associations; holding property; change of ownership.
- 157.065 - Location and ownership of cemeteries.
- 157.067 - Connection with funeral establishment prohibited.
- 157.07 - Platting.
- 157.08 - Conveyances.
- 157.10 - Alienation, disposition, and use of cemetery lots and mausoleum spaces.
- 157.11 - Improvement and care of cemetery lots and grounds.
- 157.111 - Opening and closing of burial places.
- 157.112 - Reburial of human remains by a cemetery authority.
- 157.113 - Permission to place cremated human remains in a cemetery.
- 157.114 - Duty to provide for burials.
- 157.115 - Abandonment of cemeteries and cemetery lots.
- 157.12 - Mausoleums.
- 157.123 - Columbaria maintained by religious associations.
- 157.125 - Trustees for the care of cemeteries or cemetery lots.
- 157.128 - Minimum acreage requirement for cemetery established on or after November 1, 1991.
- 157.129 - Minimum acreage of cemeteries; local ordinance.
- 157.19 - Deposit and investment of care funds and preneed trust funds.
- 157.50 - Municipal cemeteries.
- 157.60 - Public easement in cemetery.
- 157.62 - Reporting; record keeping; audits.
- 157.625 - Reporting exemption for certain cemeteries.
- 157.63 - Reporting and auditing exemptions; certification of compliance of cemetery organized and operated by, or affiliated with, a religious association.
- 157.635 - Regulations of cemetery organized and operated by, or affiliated with, a religious association.
- 157.637 - Veteran burials.
- 157.64 - Penalties.
- 157.65 - Enforcement.
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