Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries
Section 23-18-5. - Sales before completion of structure — Bond.

§ 23-18-5. Sales before completion of structure — Bond.
No crypt, room, or space in the structure shall be sold or offered for sale before the structure is entirely completed, unless and until the agency selling the crypt or niches, enters into an agreement whereby it agrees to refund to each and every purchaser all sums of money paid by each, together with legal interest on all sums of money, in the event it fails to complete the structure within the time which shall have been limited by the city or town wherein the structure is located, which agreement shall be entered into with some bank or trust company or other organization as trustee for the persons as directed by the city or town, nor until the agency shall also have made, executed and delivered to the trustee, its bond, with adequate security, if required, conditioned upon paying to the trustee a sum of money sufficient to provide for the refund previously provided and to provide for the repair, maintenance, and replacement of the structure, or shall have paid or delivered to the trustee a sum of money or other property sufficient for these purposes, the amount of the bond, payment, or delivery of property and the security on the bonds, if any shall be required, to be fixed and determined by the city or town wherein the structure is located.
History of Section.P.L. 1939, ch. 721, § 5; G.L. 1956, § 23-18-5; P.L. 1993, ch. 45, § 1.

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Rhode Island General Laws

Title 23 - Health and Safety

Chapter 23-18 - Cemeteries

Section 23-18-1. - Definitions.

Section 23-18-2. - Location of mausoleums and columbaria.

Section 23-18-2.1. - Cremated human remains.

Section 23-18-3. - Approval of construction plans — Supervisory control.

Section 23-18-4. - Completion of structure and maintenance provisions required before interments.

Section 23-18-5. - Sales before completion of structure — Bond.

Section 23-18-6. - Proceeds of sales.

Section 23-18-7. - Re-interment of bodies in structure becoming health menace.

Section 23-18-8. - Speculative sales prohibited.

Section 23-18-8.1. - Perpetual care funds.

Section 23-18-8.2. - Additional deposits.

Section 23-18-8.3. - Maintenance of perpetual care funds.

Section 23-18-9. - Penalty for violations.

Section 23-18-10. - City and town regulation of burial grounds.

Section 23-18-10.1. - Registering historical cemeteries.

Section 23-18-10.2. - Exemption from liability.

Section 23-18-11. - Regulation of excavation around cemeteries.

Section 23-18-11.1. - Permit required to alter or remove historic cemetery — Powers of city or town council — Appeal.

Section 23-18-11.2. - Regulation of excavation — Removal and transfer of graves and cemeteries — Penalties.

Section 23-18-12. - Vandalism in cemetery — Civil penalties.

Section 23-18-13. - Notification of historical preservation and heritage commission.

Section 23-18-14. - Records of disposition.

Section 23-18-15. - Installation of veteran’s plaque.