Title 8, Title 8 — Cemeteries

No burial association or corporation which is organized or incorporated under the laws of another state shall be licensed to do business in this state under the provisions of this Act. Laws 1953, p. 137, § 30.

The Board may make and promulgate written rules and regulations reasonable, necessary and incidental to the enforcement and administration of the provisions of this act. Laws 1953, p. 137, § 31.

- Bond of Treasurer. The operative date of this Act shall be June 1, 1953. Provided that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to an association which has been issuing the individual certificate, and individual certificate only, prior to January 1, 1943, and which organizati…

A. At a meeting of the burial association held in accordance with the bylaws of such association, the burial association may vote to dissolve the association. B. Upon the affirmative order of the burial association, the burial association shall be deemed dissolved. The board of d…

A. At a meeting of an unincorporated burial association, pursuant to such procedural rules or practices as have been observed or adopted by the association, the members may vote to dissolve the association. B. If the vote to dissolve is affirmative, the officers of the associatio…

Any corporation, association, or director, trustee, officer, employee, agent or representative thereof, or any other person, who willfully violates any provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) a…

Application of income. May hold real estate. Every cemetery corporation has power to purchase or take by gift, grant or devise and to hold real property not exceeding eighty (80) acres for the sole use and purpose of a burial ground and to lay out the same into blocks and lots wi…

As used in Sections 1 through 37 of Title 8 of the Oklahoma Statutes: 1. “Lot” means a tract of land or space used to inter one deceased individual; and 2. “Plot” means a tract of land made up of more than one burial lot. Added by Laws 2008, c. 47, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2008.

corporation when formed. The owner of land, any part of which has been used for human burial and no cemetery corporation, including the same, has been formed, as is now provided by law, to which title can be made, may convey or devise any designated part or the whole of such land…

origin prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, organization, association or any other entity of any type to deny, refuse or prohibit the interment, entombment or burial of the remains of any deceased person in any cemetery, whether ow…

Provisions in any contract, agreement, deed or charter and any bylaw, rule, restriction, covenant or regulation adopted or put in force either subsequent or prior to the effective date of this act authorizing, permitting or requiring the denial, refusal or prohibition of the priv…

Surveys and Plat. Such corporation shall cause its land, or such portion thereof as may from time to time become necessary for that purpose, to be surveyed into lots, plots, avenues and walks and platted, upon which plat every lot shall be regularly numbered and said plat shall b…

Such corporation has power to inclose, improve and embellish its grounds, avenues and walks, and to erect buildings or vaults for its use, and to prescribe in its bylaws, rules for the sale, inclosure and ornamentation of lots and for erecting monuments or gravestones thereon; an…

Whenever an interment is made in any lot as defined in Section 1 of this act, while any person is buried on that lot, that individual lot becomes forever inalienable, and descends in regular line of succession to the heirs at law of the owner, but any one or more of such heirs ma…

All the property of every such benevolent corporation, and the lots sold by it to individual proprietors, shall be exempt from taxation, assessment, lien, attachment, and from levy and sale upon execution; and all such real property shall be exempt from appropriation for streets,…

The proceeds arising from the sale of lots, after deducting all expenses of purchasing, inclosing, laying out and improving the ground, and of erecting buildings, shall be exclusively applied, appropriated and used in protecting, preserving, improving and embellishing the cemeter…

state institutions. A. The superintendents or wardens of state correctional facilities, of state hospitals and of state institutions are hereby authorized and directed to remove the bodies of the deceased inmates or patients from such facilities and institutions, that are not cla…

It is hereby required that after the body has been received by the State Anatomical Board that it shall be required that said Anatomical Board shall hold and preserve the body for a period of not less than thirty (30) days from the date of death. Laws 1957, p. 19, Section 2.

charitable institutions. Benevolent, religious and charitable institutions which own, maintain and operate cemeteries under the laws of this state shall be permitted to retain ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds of all lots sold by such an institution for the purpose of inter…