Tennessee Code 46-1-211 – Part applicable to mausoleums, crypts and columbariums
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 46-1-211
- Cemetery: means any land or structure in this state dedicated to and used, or intended to be used, for interment of human remains. See Tennessee Code 46-1-102
- Improvement care: means the continual maintenance of the cemetery grounds and graves in keeping with a properly maintained cemetery, including cutting of grass, raking and cleaning of cemetery plots at reasonable intervals, and pruning of shrubs and trees. See Tennessee Code 46-1-102
- remains: means the body of a deceased person, including the body in any stage of decomposition, and cremated remains. See Tennessee Code 46-1-102
This part also applies to all corporations, persons, or businesses, except those corporations, persons or businesses owning and operating a cemetery that maintains an improvement care trust fund, and in which the mausoleum is to be, is being, or has been constructed, engaged in the construction and/or sale of mausoleums, crypts, columbariums or other structures constructed for public use, space in which is offered to the public by sale, and constructed wholly or partially above the surface of the ground or partly covered with earth or sod, for the purpose of permanently containing the dead or cremated remains of human bodies.