SDCL § 34-27-7: Purpose of requirements as to cemetery plats.

It is the intent and purpose of §§ 34-27-8 and 34-27-9 to require every cemetery or place of burial to be platted or mapped into subdivisions, indicating individual grave spaces, thereby providing when such plat or map is placed on file in the registrar's office, a numerical or tract index of all burials recorded and for no other purpose.