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| HOUSE
BILL 1184
Introduced 01/10/2000 by Rep.
Markt Lytle <[email protected]>
STATUS:
03/15/2000: Signed by the Governor into law.
Public Law 46
Effective: July 1, 2000. |
On January 11, 2000, Rep. Markt
Lytle <[email protected]>, Chairman of the Indiana House of Representatives'
Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development Committee and Chairman
of the joint House/Senate Natural Resources Study Committee,
introduced House Bill 1184 (summarized below).
On March 15, 2000, HB 1184 was signed by the Governor and became Public
Law 46, effective July 1, 2000.
HB 1184 is a consolidation of the measures
recommended by the Natural Resources Study Committee in its November 1999
Annual Report to identify and protect Indiana's pioneer family cemeteries.
(See http://www.ai.org/legislative/interim/committees/reports/NRSC2B1.pdf
for the full text of the Committee's report.)
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Summary of House
Bill 1184 (full
text of HB 1184 available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format):
From the official DIGEST OF HB 1184 (Updated February 7, 2000):
Cemeteries and burial grounds.
Provides that the department of natural resources (DNR) alone or with the
assistance of certain entities may survey and register all cemeteries
and burial grounds in Indiana in a registry that the DNR establishes
and maintains.
Allows the DNR to accept donations and establish a trust fund for
the cemetery survey.
Requires a person who wishes to disturb the ground within 100 feet of a
recorded cemetery or burial ground for erecting, altering, or repairing
a structure to submit a development plan to the DNR for approval
according to standards established by rule.
Provides a separate approval procedure for plans of governmental
entities.
Requires a person who records any interest in property where a burial ground
or cemetery is known to be located to also record a survey showing
the approximate location of all human remains.
Requires a person who wishes to transfer property containing a burial ground
or cemetery to deliver a disclosure document to the transferee and
establishes the form of the disclosure document which the transferor must
record.
Allows a person having a right of interment, entombment, or inurnment in
a family burial plot to transfer that right through sale or another
method.
Provides that it is a misdemeanor to disturb, deface, or damage a burial
ground (current law applies
only to cemeteries).
Proposed Effective Date: July 1, 2000.
Full text, current status and other information available
at http://www.state.in.us/serv/lsa_billinfo?year=2000&request=getBill&docno=1184
You can print out the full text of HB 1184 from the above
webpage in either HTML or PDF format. |
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