Sec. 1. (a) Before a person may record any interest in property on which a burial ground or cemetery is known to be located, the owner of the property must record the deed to the property in the recorder’s office of the county where the property is located. The bottom portion of the deed must state in capital letters in bold type that the deed pertains to property on which a burial ground or cemetery is known to be located.

     (b) The county auditor shall send a copy of the deed to:

(1) the department; and

(2) the local cemetery board, or if no local cemetery board exists, to the county commissioners;

not later than thirty (30) days after the deed is recorded under subsection (a).

As added by P.L.46-2000, SEC.11.