Texas Health and Safety Code 713.025 – Private Care of Graves
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Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 713.025
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
This subchapter does not affect the right of a person to maintain a grave or burial lot in a cemetery if the person:
(1) has an interest in the grave or burial lot; or
(2) is related within the fifth degree by affinity or consanguinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, to, or is a direct descendant of, a decedent interred in a cemetery maintained by a trustee under this subchapter.