Mississippi Code
Chapter 43 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
Cemetery Law

§ 41-43-31. Title - Sections 41-43-31 through 41-43-53 may be cited as the "Cemetery...

§ 41-43-33. Who is subject to cemetery law - Any person, partnership, corporation or other organization organized or engaging...

§ 41-43-35. Designation of cemetery organizations as perpetual care cemeteries - All such organizations subject to the provisions of Section 41-43-31...

§ 41-43-37. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; establishment of irrevocable perpetual care trust fund; registration system for perpetual care cemeteries - For any sale of a lot for an earth burial,...

§ 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... - For each day that the report and accounting required by...

§ 41-43-39. Operation as perpetual care cemetery; procedure by existing organizations - Any such organization, subject to the provisions of Sections 41-43-31...

§ 41-43-40. Perpetual care cemetery to maintain up-to-date record of persons buried in cemetery or entombed in mausoleum or columbarium; contents - Every perpetual care cemetery shall maintain continuously and at all...

§ 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 - Any nonperpetual care cemetery, after May 6, 1958, may become...

§ 41-43-43. Nonperpetual care cemeteries to call attention to such fact in all sales contracts and deeds - All nonperpetual care cemeteries shall have printed at the top...

§ 41-43-45. Lots sold to public to be free from liens; sale or transfer of lots by purchaser - All lots and grave spaces offered for sale to the...

§ 41-43-47. Cemetery rules and regulations - The owner of any cemetery may make and enforce reasonable...

§ 41-43-51. Rule against perpetuities inapplicable to perpetual care funds - The rule against perpetuities shall not be applicable to perpetual...

§ 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 - The business records of any perpetual care cemetery, whether registered...

§ 41-43-57. Application for release of trust principal for certain purposes under exceptional circumstances - In exceptional circumstances only, a perpetual care owner can make...