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13A-7-23.1
Section 13A-7-23.1 Desecration, defacement, etc., of memorial of dead; invasion or mutilation
of corpse. (a) Any person who willfully or maliciously injures, defaces, removes, or destroys
any tomb, monument, gravestone, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing human skeletal
remains or associated burial artifacts, or other structure or thing placed or designed for
a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, or any enclosure for the protection or
ornamentation of any tomb, monument, gravestone, burial mound, earthen or shell monument containing
human skeletal remains or associated burial artifacts, or other structure before mentioned,
or for any enclosure for the burial of the dead, or any person who willfully and wrongfully
or maliciously destroys, removes, cuts, breaks, or injures any tree, shrub, plant, flower,
decoration, or other real or personal property within any cemetery or graveyard shall be guilty
of a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Any person who willfully or...
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27-17A-2
Section 27-17A-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ALTERNATIVE CONTAINER. A nonmetal receptacle or enclosure, without ornamentation
or a fixed interior lining, which is designed for the encasement of human remains and which
is made of cardboard, pressed-wood, composition materials (with or without an outside covering),
or pouches of canvas or other materials. (2) ARRANGEMENT CONFERENCE. The meeting occurring
either at need or preneed between the seller and the purchaser during which funeral or cemetery
merchandise and services are discussed. (3) ARRANGEMENT CONFERENCE FEE. The charge to the
purchaser in conjunction with the arrangement conference. (4) AT NEED. At the time of death,
or immediately following death. (5) AUTHORIZING AGENT. One who is lawfully authorized to control
the final disposition of human remains. (6) BELOW-GROUND CRYPT. A preplaced enclosed chamber,
which is usually constructed of reinforced concrete,...
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11-47-70
Section 11-47-70 Removal, etc., of monuments, headstones, etc., from graves from which remains
removed. (a) Whenever the remains of any person shall have been removed from any cemetery
by any relative or friend of such person under the provisions of Section 11-47-65, the person
causing such removal shall also be entitled to remove any vault, monument, headstone, coping,
or other improvement appurtenant to the grave from which such remains have been removed, and
the affidavit or written consent given under the provisions of Section 11-47-65 shall be sufficient
warrant and authority for the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other
person owning or controlling such cemetery to permit such removal of any vault, monument,
headstone, coping, or other improvement appurtenant to such grave. (b) Whenever the remains
of any person buried in any lot or plat shall have been removed and any vault, monument, headstone,
coping, or other improvement appurtenant thereto shall remain...
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11-47-63
Section 11-47-63 Removal and reinterment of remains by corporations, etc., generally; notices.
(a) After the completion of the publication, posting and mailing of the "Notice of declaration
of abandonment of lands for cemetery purposes and of intention to remove the human bodies
interred therein," as provided for in Section 11-47-62, and after the expiration of the
period of two months specified in said notice as provided in Section 11-47-61, any cemetery
corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling any such
cemetery shall have power to cause the removal of all human remains interred in any such cemetery
or part thereof to be abandoned as a cemetery or burial place for the dead and to cause the
reinterment in other cemeteries in this state where burials are permitted or to deposit the
said remains in a mausoleum or columbarium erected for that purpose without further notice
to any person claiming any interest in said cemetery or part thereof or in...
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11-47-62
Section 11-47-62 Declaration for abandonment of cemetery and removal of human remains interred
therein - Publication, posting and mailing of notice. (a) Notice of the said declaration of
abandonment and of the proposed removal of the human remains from any such cemetery or part
thereof shall be given to all persons interested therein by publication in a newspaper of
general circulation published in the city or town wherein said cemetery or part thereof is
situated or in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county wherein the same
is situated if located outside the limits of an incorporated municipality, which publication
shall be made once a week for two successive months. (b) Said notice shall be entitled "Notice
of declaration of abandonment of lands for cemetery purposes and of intention to remove the
human bodies interred therein," and shall specify a date, not less than two months after
the first publication of such notice, when the cemetery corporation,...
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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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11-47-65
Section 11-47-65 Voluntary removal of remains by relative or friend of person interred or by
owner of plat or lot; affidavit of person removing remains. At any time prior to the removal
by said cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling
said cemetery lands of the remains of any person buried therein, any relative or friend of
said person may voluntarily remove such remains and dispose of the same as he may desire;
provided, that the person desiring to cause such removal shall, prior to such removal, deliver
to said cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling
such cemetery an affidavit duly sworn to before an officer qualified to administer oaths stating
the name of the person whose remains it is desired to remove and further stating, so far as
is known to the affiant, the date of burial of such remains and the names and places of residence
of the heirs at law of such deceased person. In the...
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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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11-47-72
Section 11-47-72 Filing, etc., of declaration as to removal of all remains from abandoned cemetery.
After the removal of all human remains interred in any part or the whole of the cemetery lands
abandoned as a burial place for the human dead as provided in this division, the cemetery
corporation, association, corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling such cemetery
lands may file for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which such
lands are situated a written declaration reciting that all human remains have been removed
from the part or portion of such lands described in such declaration. Such declaration shall
be acknowledged in the manner of the acknowledgment of deeds to real property by the president
and secretary or other corresponding officers of such cemetery corporation or association
or by the incumbent of any such corporation sole or by the persons owning or controlling such
cemetery lands, and thereafter any deed, mortgage, or other...
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22-19-3
Section 22-19-3 Burial or removal permits for dead bodies; certificates of birth or death.
Any person, for himself or as an officer, agent or employee of any other person or of any
corporation or partnership, who shall: (1) Inter, cremate or otherwise finally dispose of
a dead human body or permit the same to be done or remove such body from the primary registration
district in which the death occurred or the body was found, without the authority of a burial
or removal permit issued by the local registrar of the district in which the death occurred
or in which the body was found; or (2) Refuse or fail to furnish correctly any information
in his possession or furnish false information affecting any certificate or record required
by the health laws of this state; or (3) Willfully alter, otherwise than is provided by law,
or falsify any certificate of birth or death or any record established by the health laws
of this state; or (4) Being required by the health laws of this state to fill...
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