Cemetery Act for Perpetually Maintained Cemeteries
20-17-1002. Definitions.
As
used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
| (1) | "Board" means the Arkansas Cemetery Board; |
| (2) |
"Care and maintenance" means the continual maintenance of the cemetery grounds and graves in keeping with a properly maintained cemetery; |
| (3) |
"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; |
| (4) |
"Cemetery company" means an individual, partnership, corporation, 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 board to own or control the lands or conduct the business; |
| (5) |
"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; |
| (6) |
"Crypt" means a chamber of sufficient size to inter the remains of a deceased person; |
| (7) |
"Interment" means any lawful disposition of the remains of a deceased person as provided by law; |
| (8) |
"Lot or grave space" means a space of ground in a cemetery used or intended to be used for interment therein; |
| (9) |
"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; |
| (10) |
"Niche" means a space in a columbarium which is used, or intended to be used, for the interment of the cremated remains of one (1) or more deceased persons; |
| (11) |
"Permit holder" means any cemetery company that holds a permit issued by the board to own or operate a perpetual care cemetery; |
| (12) |
"Perpetual care cemetery" means a cemetery for the benefit of which a perpetual care fund has been established in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter; and |
| (13) |
"Secretary" means the Securities Commissioner. |
| History. Acts 1977, No. 352, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-426.2; Acts 1997, No. 295, § 1; 2001, No. 1242, § 1. | |