Owners of residential or agricultural property who use or intend to use their property for the interment of family members, shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter; provided:

(1) Burial plots on the owner’s property shall be offered to family members only;

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-5.5

  • Cemetery: means any property, or part interest therein, dedicated to and used or intended to be used for the permanent interment of human remains. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Interment: means the disposition of human remains by cremation and inurnment, entombment, or burial in a place used, or intended to be used, and dedicated for cemetery purposes. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, county, association, or any other group however organized. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 441-1
(2) Burial plots shall not be sold or transferred to anyone, except as part of a sale or transfer of all or a substantial portion of the property; and
(3) Any subsequent disinterment of any person interred on the property shall be conducted as though the property were cemetery property under section 6E-41.

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