Indiana Code
Chapter 41. Family Burial Lots
23-14-41-4. Use of Family Burial Plot

Sec. 4. (a) In a family burial plot:
(1) one (1) grave, crypt, or niche may be used for the record owner's interment, entombment, or inurnment;
(2) after the record owner's interment, entombment, or inurnment, one (1) grave, crypt, or niche may be used for the surviving spouse of the record owner; and
(3) in the spaces remaining, if any, the parents and children of the deceased record owner, in order of need, may be interred, entombed, or inurned without the consent of any person claiming an interest in the family burial plot.
(b) If there is no parent or child who survives the deceased record owner, the right of interment, entombment, or inurnment in a family burial plot shall go in order of need to:
(1) the heirs at law of the deceased record owner, or the spouse of the heir if the heir is already interred, entombed, or inurned, as specified by the statutes of descent; or
(2) the spouse of any heir at law of the deceased record owner.
As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.15. Amended by P.L.113-2007, SEC.1.

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