Sale of outer containers
Register checked through August 19, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 33
No later Register activity identified in this check.
Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Department of State
- Text status
- Phase2b Dequote Reversal
- Register checked through
- August 19, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 33
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- May 19, 2026
This stored compiled body is source-caveated. Its source-observation date and the separate State Register currentness check describe different evidence.
(a)A cemetery corporation may not compel the use of any particular outer enclosure, except that a cemetery may require the use of a concrete burial vault, or, at the option of the customer, a concrete grave liner under the following conditions and restrictions:
(1)the customer must have purchased a lot after January 1, 1985;
(2)the requirement must be stated prominently in writing and a written statement must be given to the customer in advance of the signing of the agreement to purchase a grave or lot;
(3)only a concrete grave liner or a concrete burial vault of the type and grade which conforms to the following minimum specifications may be required:
(i)concrete burial vault
-1½″ average sidewall -2″ top -2″ bottom (whether top seal or plate of air seal) -4,500 pounds per square inch -Sealed
(ii)concrete grave liner
-1½″ average top and bottom -1″ sidewall -minimum of two holes in or near bottom to allow discharge of water -4,500 pounds per square inch -not sealed
(4)should a lot owner, a person with burial rights or a representative of one about to be interred express objection to the use of the required concrete burial vault or grave liner at the time of interment based upon a religious belief, the cemetery must, without question, cancel the requirement that a concrete vault or concrete grave liner be used; provided, however, that the cemetery may impose at the time of interment a reasonable fee for the periodic refilling of the grave after receiving approval of the Cemetery Board for that fee;
(5)a plot owner may purchase the prescribed grave liner from any source including the cemetery; and
(6)a cemetery may not sell burial vaults.