{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-17-1002","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 20-17-1002","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this subchapter: (1) \"Care and maintenance\" means the continual maintenance of the cemetery grounds and graves in keeping with a properly maintained cemetery; (2) (A) \"Cemetery\" means any land or a structure in this state dedicated to and used or intended to be used for interment of human remains. (B) \"Cemetery\" includes a burial park for earth interments, a mausoleum for vault or crypt interments, or a combination of one (1) or more burial parks or mausoleums; (3) \"Cemetery company\" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association, now or hereafter organized, owning or controlling cemetery lands or property and conducting the business of a cemetery or making an application with the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services to own or control the lands or conduct the business; (4) \"Columbarium\" means a structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of cremated human remains; (5) \"Crypt\" means a chamber of sufficient size to inter the remains of a deceased person; (6) \"Infant interment garden\" means a designated area in a perpetual care cemetery for the interments of infants and children no more than twenty-four (24) months of age; (7) \"Interment\" means the lawful disposition of the remains of a deceased person as provided by law; (8) \"Lawn crypt\" means an interment space sometimes referred to as a \"belowground crypt\", \"westminister\", or \"turf top crypt\" in a preplaced chamber or burial vault either side-by-side or at multiple depths, covered by earth and sod; (9) \"Lot or grave space\" means a space of ground in a cemetery used or intended to be used for interment therein; (10) \"Mausoleum\" means a community-type structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains in crypts or niches; (11) \"Niche\" means a space in a columbarium that is used or intended to be used for the interment of the cremated remains of one (1) or more deceased persons; (12) \"Permit holder\" means a cemetery company that holds a permit issued by the board to own or operate a perpetual care cemetery; (13) \"Perpetual care cemetery\" means a cemetery for the benefit of which a permanent maintenance fund has been established in accordance with this subchapter; and (14) \"Properly maintained\" means, with regard to a perpetual care cemetery, provided care and maintenance services, including without limitation: (A) Mowing the grass of the perpetual care cemetery; (B) Weed trimming around lots or grave space and fences or property lines of the perpetual care cemetery; (C) Emptying trash receptacles located at the perpetual care cemetery; and (D) Removing excess dirt, tree limbs, leaves, trash, and other debris from the grounds of the perpetual care cemetery. Amended by Act 2021, No. 731,§ 2, eff. 7/28/2021. Amended by Act 2021, No. 731,§ 1, eff. 7/28/2021. Amended by Act 2017, No. 788,§ 31, eff. 7/1/2018. Acts 1977, No. 352, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-426.2; Acts 1997, No. 295, § 1; 2001, No. 1242, § 1; 2007, No. 827, § 163; 2009, No. 714, § 1; 2009, No. 715, §§ 1, 2: 2011, No. 590, § 1.\n\nAs used in this subchapter:\n\n(1) \"Care and maintenance\" means the continual maintenance of the cemetery grounds and graves in keeping with a properly maintained cemetery;\n\n(2) (A) \"Cemetery\" means any land or a structure in this state dedicated to and used or intended to be used for interment of human remains. (B) \"Cemetery\" includes a burial park for earth interments, a mausoleum for vault or crypt interments, or a combination of one (1) or more burial parks or mausoleums;\n\n(A) \"Cemetery\" means any land or a structure in this state dedicated to and used or intended to be used for interment of human remains.\n\n(B) \"Cemetery\" includes a burial park for earth interments, a mausoleum for vault or crypt interments, or a combination of one (1) or more burial parks or mausoleums;\nfor vault or crypt interments, or a combination of one (1) or more burial parks or mausoleums;\n\n(A) \"Cemetery\" means any land or a structure in this state dedicated to and used or intended to be used for interment of human remains.\n\n(B) \"Cemetery\" includes a burial park for earth interments, a mausoleum for vault or crypt interments, or a combination of one (1) or more burial parks or mausoleums;\n\n(3) \"Cemetery company\" means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association, now or hereafter organized, owning or controlling cemetery lands or property and conducting the business of a cemetery or making an application with the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services to own or control the lands or conduct the business;\n\n(4) \"Columbarium\" means a structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of cremated human remains;\n\n(5) \"Crypt\" means a chamber of sufficient size to inter the remains of a deceased person;\n\n(6) \"Infant interment garden\" means a designated area in a perpetual care cemetery for the interments of infants and children no more than twenty-four (24) months of age;\n\n(7) \"Interment\" means the lawful disposition of the remains of a deceased person as provided by law;\n\n(8) \"Lawn crypt\" means an interment space sometimes referred to as a \"belowground crypt\", \"westminister\", or \"turf top crypt\" in a preplaced chamber or burial vault either side-by-side or at multiple depths, covered by earth and sod;\n\n(9) \"Lot or grave space\" means a space of ground in a cemetery used or intended to be used for interment therein;\n\n(10) \"Mausoleum\" means a community-type structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains in crypts or niches;\n\n(11) \"Niche\" means a space in a columbarium that is used or intended to be used for the interment of the cremated remains of one (1) or more deceased persons;\n\n(12) \"Permit holder\" means a cemetery company that holds a permit issued by the board to own or operate a perpetual care cemetery;\n\n(13) \"Perpetual care cemetery\" means a cemetery for the benefit of which a permanent maintenance fund has been established in accordance with this subchapter; and\n\n(14) \"Properly maintained\" means, with regard to a perpetual care cemetery, provided care and maintenance services, including without limitation: (A) Mowing the grass of the perpetual care cemetery; (B) Weed trimming around lots or grave space and fences or property lines of the perpetual care cemetery; (C) Emptying trash receptacles located at the perpetual care cemetery; and (D) Removing excess dirt, tree limbs, leaves, trash, and other debris from the grounds of the perpetual care cemetery.\n\n(A) Mowing the grass of the perpetual care cemetery;\n\n(B) Weed trimming around lots or grave space and fences or property lines of the perpetual care cemetery;\n\n(C) Emptying trash receptacles located at the perpetual care cemetery; and\n\n(D) Removing excess dirt, tree limbs, leaves, trash, and other debris from the grounds of the perpetual care cemetery.","path":["AR Code","Title 20","Chapter 17","Subchapter 10"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"f96e9e71a75a166859ffdcc59ed3363bb20dc3b73a75a06afba1427eb38d36d5","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-17-1001","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-17-1003"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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