Mississippi Code
Cemetery Law
§ 41-43-33. Who is subject to cemetery law

Any person, partnership, corporation or other organization organized or engaging in business under the laws of the State of Mississippi, whether for profit or not-for-profit, or wheresoever organized and doing business in the State of Mississippi, of owning, maintaining or operating a cemetery, providing lots or other interment space therein for the remains of human bodies, except such organizations and cemeteries that are affiliated with or owned by churches or religious societies, established fraternal societies, municipalities, other political subdivisions of the State of Mississippi, or family cemeteries or family burial grounds, and community cemeteries that provide burial lots at no charge, or sell burial lots to the public, shall be subject to the provisions of Section 41-43-31 et seq.
From and after July 1, 2009, all new cemeteries must be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt under the provisions of this section.

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Mississippi Code

Title 41 - Public Health

Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

Cemetery Law

§ 41-43-31. Title

§ 41-43-33. Who is subject to cemetery law

§ 41-43-35. Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries

§ 41-43-37. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; establishment of irrevocable perpetual care trust fund; registration system for perpetual care cemeteries

§ 41-43-38. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; accounting and reporting requirements; penalties for failure to timely file requisite accountings, records, reports or notices; sale or transfer of perpetual care cemetery; audits; procedure if perpet...

§ 41-43-39. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations

§ 41-43-40. Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents

§ 41-43-41. Nonperpetual care cemetery may become perpetual care cemetery; all cemeteries created after July 1, 2009, to be perpetual care cemeteries unless exempt

§ 41-43-43. Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds

§ 41-43-45. Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser

§ 41-43-47. Cemetery rules and regulations

§ 41-43-51. Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds

§ 41-43-55. Business records of all perpetual care cemeteries to be available for inspection and examination by Secretary of State; inspection of cemetery sites

§ 41-43-57. Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances