CHAPTER 60. LEGALIZATION OF DEFECTIVELY FORMED CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS AND CORPORATIONS

IC 23-14-60

    

Chapter 60. Legalization of Defectively Formed Cemetery
Associations and Corporations

IC 23-14-60-1

Defective cemetery associations and corporations; rights and
powers

    

Sec. 1. (a) If:

        (1) any number of persons have:

            (A) acted together as an association or corporation;

            (B) acquired, as an association or corporation, land for
cemetery purposes;

            (C) sold and granted to persons the right to bury the dead in
lots located on the land; and

            (D) actually managed and controlled the land as a cemetery
for at least thirty (30) years; but

        (2) the organization that the persons attempted to establish as a
corporation or cemetery association is defective and incomplete
because of a failure to comply with the formalities required by
law in force at some time since the original parties first assumed
to act as an association or corporation;

the owners of the right to bury the dead on lots in the cemetery and
those who may acquire the right become and continue to be a
cemetery association or corporation from March 14, 1913.

    (b) The owners of the right to bury the dead on lots in a cemetery
referred to in subsection (a) have all the rights and powers of a
cemetery association or corporation organized under this article,
IC 23-1, or IC 23-17.

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.2-2002, SEC.74;
P.L.163-2006, SEC.2.