Indiana Code 23-14-38-2. Removal and reinterment of bodies from burial structure declared to be public nuisance; removal of mausoleum or vault; costs
(1) a person fails to maintain a mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure in a good state of repair; and
Terms Used In Indiana Code 23-14-38-2
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Judgment: means all final orders, decrees, and determinations in an action and all orders upon which executions may issue. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(b) The deceased body or bodies interred in the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure shall be removed and properly interred:
(1) within thirty (30) days after the judgment declaring the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure to be a nuisance, if the judgment is not appealed; or
(2) if the judgment is appealed, within thirty (30) days after the judgment is upheld on appeal.
(c) The mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure shall be removed:
(1) within one hundred eighty (180) days after the judgment declaring the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure to be a nuisance, if the judgment is not appealed; or
(2) if the judgment is appealed, within one hundred eighty (180) days after the judgment is upheld on appeal.
(d) The cost of reinterring the bodies under subsection (b) and removing the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure under subsection (c) shall be paid:
(1) by the person who owns the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure; or
(2) if the person who owns the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or other burial structure is not found, by the county in which the mausoleum, garden crypt, vault, or structure is located.
As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.12.