35-21-811. Limitations on actions -- exemptions from liability. An action may not lie against any mausoleum-columbarium authority relating to the remains of a person that have been left in its possession for a period of 2 years unless a written contract has been entered into with the mausoleum-columbarium authority for care of the remains or unless permanent interment has been made. This section may not be construed as an extension of the existing statute prescribing the period within which an action based upon a tort must be commenced. A licensed mortician or funeral director is not liable in damages for any cremated human remains after the remains have been deposited with a mausoleum-columbarium authority in Montana.
History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 283, L. 1999.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations
Chapter 21. Mausoleum and Columbarium Authorities
Part 8. Mausoleum-Columbarium Authorities
35-21-803. Exemptions and limitations on applicability
35-21-804. Incorporation required to transact business
35-21-806. through 35-21-809 reserved
35-21-810. Disposition of remains -- liability
35-21-811. Limitations on actions -- exemptions from liability
35-21-812. Removal of remains -- when removal excepted
35-21-813. through 35-21-819 reserved
35-21-820. Map or plat -- filing -- tax exemption
35-21-821. Effect of dedication
35-21-822. Removal of dedication by court
35-21-823. and 35-21-824 reserved
35-21-825. Sale of interment plots
35-21-826. Resale of plots for profit -- commissions -- penalties
35-21-827. Property interests in plot -- estate tax
35-21-829. and 35-21-830 reserved
35-21-831. Termination of right of interment -- limitation on right
35-21-832. Conveyance to mausoleum-columbarium authority by plot owner
35-21-834. Co-owners -- mausoleum-columbarium authority liability
35-21-835. through 35-21-839 reserved
35-21-841. through 35-21-844 reserved
35-21-846. Plans for general care and endowment care
35-21-847. Fund trustees -- compensation -- annual financial report
35-21-848. Endowment care fund gifts and contributions
35-21-849. Signs required for nonendowment and endowment care -- penalties
35-21-850. Annual report of endowment care mausoleum-columbarium