New Jersey Statutes 45:27-29. Multiple owners of interment space
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 45:27-29
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
(1) each individual owner’s interest may be transferred only by that owner or that owner’s authorized representative;
(2) each individual owner has a right of interment in the space.
b. When there are two or more owners of an interment space, they may designate one or more of the co-owners to represent them by filing written notice of the designation with the cemetery company. If such a notice has been filed, the cemetery company shall follow the direction of the representative as to interment in the space, and in regard to memorials, embellishments and care for the interment space. In the absence of that notice the cemetery company may rely on the direction of any co-owner as to burial, memorials, embellishments or care and shall not be liable to any person for doing so.
L.2003,c.261,s.29.