§ 1512. Rights of lot owners.\n (a) Lots; indivisible and inalienable. All lots, plots or parts\nthereof, the use of which has been conveyed as a separate lot, shall be\nindivisible, except with the consent of the lot owner or lot owners and\nthe corporation, or as in this section provided. After a burial therein,\nthe same shall be inalienable, except as otherwise provided.\n (b) Interest of deceased lot owner. Upon the death of an owner or\nco-owner of any lot, plot or part thereof, unless the same shall be held\nin joint tenancy, or tenancy by the entirety, the interest of the\ndeceased lot owner shall pass to the devises of such lot owner, but, if\nsuch interest be not effectually devised, then to his or her descendants\nthen surviving, and if there be none, then to the surviving spouse, and\nif there be none, then to those entitled to take the real and personal\nproperty of the deceased lot owner pursuant to article four of the\nestates, powers and trust law provided, however, that no interest in any\nlot, plot or part thereof shall pass by any residuary or other general\nclause in a will and such interest shall pass by will only if the lot,\nplot or part thereof sought to be devised is specifically referred to in\nsuch will. The surviving spouse of a deceased lot owner during his or\nher life and the owners from time to time of the deceased lot owner's\nlot, plot or part thereof, shall have in common the possession, care and\ncontrol of such lot, plot or part thereof.\n (c) Purchase for burial of decedent. Whenever a lot, plot or part\nthereof shall be purchased by the executor, administrator or\nrepresentative of a decedent from estate funds for the burial of the\ndecedent, the surviving spouse of the decedent shall have the right of\ninterment therein, and the deed shall run to the names of the\ndistributees, other than the surviving spouse, of the decedent, or to\n"The distributees, other than the surviving spouse, of .........,\ndeceased", if there be such surviving spouse, otherwise to "The\ndistributees of............., deceased." If the deed shall run to "The\ndistributees, other than the surviving spouse of ........., deceased,"\nor to "The distributees of ........., deceased," the executor,\nadministrator or representative shall, at the time of delivery of the\ndeed to such lot, plot or part thereof, file with the corporation an\naffidavit setting forth the names and places of residence of all the\ndecedent's distributees, and the corporation shall be entitled to rely\nupon the truth of the statements contained in such affidavit.\n (d) Right of interment. A deceased person shall have the right of\ninterment in any lot, plot or part thereof of which he or she was the\nowner or co-owner at the time of his or her death, or in any tomb\nerected thereon. The surviving spouse shall have the right of interment\nfor his or her body in a lot or tomb in which the deceased spouse was an\nowner or co-owner at the time of his or her death, except where all the\navailable burial spaces in a lot or tomb have been designated for the\ninterment of persons other than the surviving spouse, pursuant to\nsubdivision (f) of this section, and a right to have his or her body\nremain permanently interred or entombed therein, except, that such body\nmay be removed therefrom as provided in subdivision (e) of section\nfifteen hundred ten of this article. Such right may be enforced and\nprotected by his or her personal representatives. The remains of a\nspouse, parent or child of a person who is an owner or co-owner thereof\nmay be interred in such lot or tomb without the consent of any person\nclaiming any interest therein, subject, however, to the following rules\nand exceptions: (A) The place of interment in such lot shall be subject\nto the reasonable determination by a majority of the co-owners or in the\nabsence of such determination by the cemetery corporation or its officer\nor agent having immediate charge of interments. (B) An
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