Tenn. Code Ann. § 46-1-211
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Part applicable to mausoleums, crypts and columbariums
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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. Acts 1963, ch. 202, § 1; 1968, ch. 557, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-120; T.C.A., §§ 46-220, 46-2-120; T.C.A., § 46-2-303 ; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3.
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.
Acts 1963, ch. 202, § 1; 1968, ch. 557, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-120; T.C.A., §§ 46-220, 46-2-120; T.C.A., § 46-2-303 ; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3.
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.
Acts 1963, ch. 202, § 1; 1968, ch. 557, § 2; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 46-120; T.C.A., §§ 46-220, 46-2-120; T.C.A., § 46-2-303 ; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 3.
Status: in_force
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