8-30-1
Section 8-30-1 Definitions. The following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BURIAL MERCHANDISE. Any merchandise normally offered or sold by a cemetery for use in connection with the interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains. This includes, but is not limited to, subterranean crypts, mausoleums, markers, and monuments, whether bronze or otherwise, bronze plaques and vases, mausoleum spaces to be constructed, cemetery spaces to be developed, and vaults, and also includes foundations or footings of any type. (2) BURIAL RIGHT. The right to use a grave space, mausoleum, or columbarium for the interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains. (3) BURIAL SERVICE. Any service offered by a cemetery in connection with the interment, entombment, or inurnment of human remains as described in subdivision (1) of this section. (4) CEMETERY. Any land or structure in this state dedicated to and used, or intended to be used, for interment of human remains. It may be either a...
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34-13-1
Section 34-13-1 Definitions. (a) For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ACCREDITED SCHOOL or COLLEGE OF MORTUARY SCIENCE. A school or college approved by the Alabama Board of Funeral Service and which maintains a course of instruction of not less than 48 calendar weeks or four academic quarters or college terms and which gives a course of instruction in the fundamental subjects including, but not limited to, the following: a. Mortuary management and administration. b. Legal medicine and toxicology as it pertains to funeral directing. c. Public health, hygiene, and sanitary science. d. Mortuary science, to include embalming technique, in all its aspects; chemistry of embalming, color harmony; discoloration, its causes, effects, and treatment; treatment of special cases; restorative art; funeral management; and professional ethics. e. Anatomy and physiology. f. Chemistry, organic and inorganic. g. Pathology. h. Bacteriology. i. Sanitation...
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40-9-1
Section 40-9-1 Persons and property generally. The following property and persons shall be exempt from ad valorem taxation and none other: (1) All bonds of the United States and this state and all county and municipal bonds issued by counties and municipalities in this state, all property, real and personal, of the United States and this state and of county and municipal corporations in this state; all cemeteries, all property, real and personal, used exclusively for religious worship, for schools or for purposes purely charitable; provided, that property, real or personal, owned by any educational, religious or charitable institution, society or corporation let for rent or hire or for use for business purposes shall not be exempt from taxation, notwithstanding that the income from such property shall be used exclusively for education, religious or charitable purposes; all mortgages, together with the notes, debts and credits secured thereby on real and personal property situated in...
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22-27-2
Section 22-27-2 Definitions. For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) AGENCY. Any controlling agency, public or private, elected, appointed, or volunteer utilizing methods approved by the health department or the department for the purpose of controlling and supervising the collection or management of solid wastes or recyclable materials. (2) ALTERNATIVE COVER. Material other than earth used to cover a landfill or sanitary landfill. An alternative cover shall be approved by the Department of Environmental Management in compliance with federal law and United States Environmental Protection Agency rules or guidance to achieve a level of performance equal to or greater than earthen cover material. (3) ASHES. The solid residue from burning of wood, coal, coke, or other combustible material used for heating, from incineration of solid wastes, or for the production of electricity at electric generating...
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11-47-74
Section 11-47-74 Removal of remains, etc., from cemeteries owned by churches, etc. Nothing contained in this division shall authorize or permit or be construed or deemed to authorize or permit the heirs, relatives, or friends of any deceased person whose body has been interred in any cemetery owned, governed or controlled by any religious corporation or by any church or religious society or any denomination or by any corporation sole administering temporalities of any religious denomination, society, or church or owned, governed or controlled by any person or persons as trustee or trustees for any religious denomination, society or church to disinter, remove, reinter, or dispose of any such body except in accordance with the rules, regulations, and discipline of such religious denomination, society, or church. (Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §15.)...
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11-47-67
Section 11-47-67 Reinterment of remains generally. Whenever under the provisions of this division the remains of any person shall have been removed from any cemetery or part thereof abandoned as such burial place under the provisions of the division by the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person having charge or control of such cemetery lands, such remains shall be transported to and reinterred in any other cemetery in this state where burials are permitted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person having charge or control of such cemetery lands or part thereof or deposited in a mausoleum or columbarium as provided in this section. The remains of each person so reinterred shall be placed in a separate and suitable receptacle and decently and respectfully interred under such rules and regulations now in force or that may be adopted by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person making such...
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11-47-64
Section 11-47-64 Notice to board of health of removal of remains, etc.; removal of remains, etc., subject to rules and regulations of board of health. (a) Any cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such cemetery shall, before disinterring, transporting or removing human remains under the provisions of this division, make a written report to the State Board of Health setting forth the name and date of death of each person whose remains are to be removed, if known, the location of the grave and the location of the grave to which such remains are to be removed. (b) Such disinterment, transportation, or removal of human remains shall be performed subject to such reasonable rules and regulations relative to the manner of disinterring, transporting, or removing such remains as may be adopted by the State Board of Health. (Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §14; Acts 1965, No. 155, p. 224, §4.)...
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34-13-120
Section 34-13-120 License required; crematory requirements; application and inspection; records; violations; rulemaking authority. (a) No person, firm, corporation, association, entity, or funeral establishment, or branch thereof, may operate a crematory for the purpose of cremating dead human bodies, unless licensed by the board as a funeral establishment and the crematory being registered with the board and inspected by the board before any cremations of human remains are performed. (b) A crematory shall satisfy all of the following requirements and have the following minimum equipment, facilities, and personnel: (1) Registered with the board. (2) Inspected by the board before performing any cremations. (3) Fixed on the premises of a funeral establishment. For the purposes of this subdivision, fixed means permanently attached to the real property where the establishment is situated. (4) Owned by the same individual, partnership, or corporation as the funeral establishment. (5) Under...
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45-37-30
Section 45-37-30 Cemetery Board. (a) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Jefferson County Cemetery Board. (2) CEMETERY. Any for profit cemetery in the county where property is used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains, including, but not limited to, any property containing a grave, lot, crypt, niche, or mausoleum and any gravestone, headstone, or other marker therein. (3) MAINTENANCE. The act of maintaining a cemetery, including, but not limited to, the cutting and trimming of the lawn, shrubs, and trees. (4) NEGLECTED CEMETERY. A cemetery that has become abandoned or neglected in any of the following ways: a. Weeds, briars, bushes, or trees have become overgrown. b. Fences have become broken, decayed, or dilapidated. c. Graves, lots, crypts, niches, mausoleums, and markers and roads, buildings, or other structures in a cemetery have become damaged, broken, dilapidated, or destroyed. (b)(1) The...
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2-17-1
Section 2-17-1 Definitions. When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries of the State of Alabama or his duly authorized representative. (2) FIRM. Any partnership, association or other unincorporated business organization. (3) MEAT BROKER. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of buying or selling carcasses, parts of carcasses, meat or meat food products of cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules or other equines or poultry on commission or otherwise negotiating purchases or sales of such articles other than for his own account or as an employee of another person, firm or corporation. (4) POULTRY. Any live or slaughtered domesticated bird. (5) RENDERER. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the business of rendering carcasses or parts or products of the carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, goats,...
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