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.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
§ 41-43-33. Who is subject to cemetery law
§ 41-43-35. Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries
§ 41-43-39. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations
§ 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