Don't forget our Indiana Cemetery laws, you will need to comply with
those. Chapter 33 will give you most of the necessary definitions, Chapter
34 concerns the Mandatory Recording of Survey and Plat to get you
started. All the chapters need to be read and understood so thay your new
cemetery will comply.
The one big one, and the very reason we are in existance to begin with, is
Chapter 48, Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund. Unless you are a nonprofit
mutual association in existence on June 14, 1939 this chapter will apply to
you, and the one law thay should be enforced on any cemetery that it can be
applied to. This is the one that provides the perpetual care monies to
maintaln and care for the cemetery forever.
That is the problem with all (or most) of these old Pioneer Cemeteries that
we are trying to save. The cemetery that Jack told about in Floyd Co. is
great, but what happens in 25 or 50 or 75 years from now if all that family
has died off, moved off, or no longer cares about the
cemetery? Exactly. Another Township Trustee will have another
abandoned cemetery to maintain.
That is the reason that law was enacted, and a very good reason to make
sure it is followed. So I think you need to enclude in method 2, make it
a legal cemetery, perpetual care fund and all!
At 07:48 AM 03/31/2005 -0800, you wrote:
Starting a new Cemetery can be one of two methods, either w ith a
shovel,
or with the legally approved permit system.
Method 2:
Zoning Laws
Burial Permits
Environmental Impoact study
Variances in zoning (public hearsings and all kinds of involvement by
people who you would think shouldn't get involved, like the water
company, and other utilities)
Site underground mapping and a water table survey
Drainage survey.
Not to mention the local politicians who will alternately support and
oppose it depending on who calls first in the morning.
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Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG