New Jersey Statutes 45:27-41. Registry of cemetery companies accepting payment for recipients of Work First New Jersey, SSI
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 45:27-41
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- 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
b. Any cemetery company may volunteer to be included in the registry established pursuant to subsection a. of this section, and the board shall include any cemetery company in the registry that elects to be included, provided the cemetery company agrees to accept any allowance or payment for burial expenses available for recipients of Work First New Jersey pursuant to P.L.1997, c.38 (C. 44:10-55 et seq.) and Supplemental Security Income pursuant to title III of Pub.L.92-603 (42 U.S.C. § 1381 et seq.), and certain other persons specified to be eligible for such payments pursuant to N.J.A.C.10:90-8.1 et seq., as full payment for the purchase of interment space and for any services rendered by the cemetery company. If, after electing to be included in the registry, a cemetery company requests to be removed from the registry, the board shall remove the cemetery company from the registry.
c. If a cemetery company elects to participate in the registry and accept payment pursuant to subsection b. of this section, the acceptance of that payment shall not: (1) entitle any person related to the decedent, or otherwise responsible for the interment of the decedent, to membership in the cemetery company or voting rights attendant thereto, as provided in section 10 of P.L.2003, c.261 (C. 45:27-10); (2) require the cemetery company to use an interment space in violation of any religious restrictions on the use of that space; or (3) permit any person related to the decedent, or otherwise responsible for the interment of the decedent, to select the particular interment space in which the human remains will be interred.
L.2013, c.194, s.1.