Sec. 1. (a) This section applies to a cemetery from the time interment, entombment, or inurnment spaces in the cemetery are ready for immediate use and bona fide sales have been made.

     (b) A railroad, street, road, alley, pipeline, pole line, or other public thoroughfare or utility shall not be laid out through, over, or across any part of the cemetery within one hundred (100) feet of:

(1) a space in which burial rights have been transferred;

(2) a mausoleum in the cemetery;

(3) a garden crypt in the cemetery; or

(4) a columbarium in a cemetery;

without the consent of the owner of the cemetery.

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.18.