§ 1510. Cemetery duties.\n (a) Posting and distribution of rules, regulations, charges and\nprices. The rules, regulations, charges, and prices of goods, lots,\nplots or parts thereof shall be suitably printed and shall be\nconspicuously posted by the corporation in each of its offices, if any,\nand conspicuously displayed on any website the corporation maintains or\nthrough which it conducts business. A printed copy of charges and prices\nof goods, lots, plots or parts thereof shall be made available upon\nrequest by any person for up to the actual price of the printing of the\ncopy. For each day in which the corporation fails to post or display the\nrules, regulations, charges and prices the corporation shall be subject\nto a penalty of twenty-five dollars which may be recovered in a civil\naction by the cemetery board. For each instance in which the corporation\nfails to make available a copy of the prices of goods, lots, plots, or\nparts thereof, to a person who requests such copy, the corporation shall\nbe subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars which may be recovered in\na civil action by the cemetery board. The cemetery board may waive the\npayment of the penalty or any part thereof.\n (b) Surveys and maps of cemetery. (1) Every cemetery corporation, from\ntime to time, as land in its cemetery may be required for burial\npurposes, shall survey and subdivide such lands and make and file in the\noffice of the corporation a map thereof, open to public inspection,\ndelineating the lots or plots, avenues, paths, alleys and walks and\ntheir respective designations; a true copy thereof shall upon its\nwritten request, be filed with the cemetery board. Any unsold lots,\nplots or parts thereof, in which there are no remains, by order of the\ndirectors, may be resurveyed and altered in shape or size, and properly\ndesignated on such map. (2) Every cemetery corporation shall provide\nreasonable access to every lot, plot and grave. This provision shall not\nbe applicable where on September first, nineteen hundred forty-nine such\naccess cannot be provided without the disinterment of a body or bodies.\nA cemetery corporation shall not permit or allow a body to be interred\nhereafter in a path, alley, avenue or walk shown on the cemetery maps or\nactually in existence. Nothing herein contained, however, shall prevent\na cemetery corporation in special cases from enlarging a lot by selling\nto the owner thereof the access space next to such lot, and permitting\ninterments therein, provided reasonable access to such lot and to\nadjoining lots is not thereby eliminated, and provided the approval of\nthe cemetery board shall have first been obtained.\n (c) Record of burials, natural organic reductions or cremations. A\nrecord shall be kept of every burial in the cemetery of a cemetery\ncorporation, showing the date of burial, the name, age, and place of\nbirth of the person buried, when these particulars can be conveniently\nobtained, and the lot, plot, or part thereof, in which such burial was\nmade. A copy of such record, duly certified by the secretary of such\ncorporation, shall be furnished on demand and payment of such fees\ntherefor as are allowed the county clerk for certified copies of\nrecords. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, all\ncemetery corporations which conduct cremations or natural organic\nreductions shall maintain permanent records of the name of the deceased\nhuman being, the funeral home from which the remains were received, the\nreceipt of delivery of the deceased human remains, the authorizing agent\nfor the cremation or natural organic reduction, and the manner of\ndisposition of the remains. Such records may be reviewed by the division\nof cemeteries at any time.\n (d) When burial not to be refused. No cemetery corporation shall\nrefuse or deny the right of burial and the privileges incidental thereto\nin any lot, plot or part thereof to those otherwise lawfully entitled to\nbe buried
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