{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-16-1-7.1","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 16:1-7.1","heading":"Prohibitions relative to religious entities; terms defined.","body":"1. a.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a religious corporation, association, organization or society, however formed or incorporated, that owns or controls a cemetery or that engages in the management, operation or sales of or for a cemetery, whether directly or indirectly, or the owner or operator of a religious cemetery, is prohibited from engaging, directly or indirectly, in:\n(1)\tthe ownership, manufacture, installation, sale, creation, inscription,  provision or conveyance, in any form, of memorials;\n(2)\tthe ownership, manufacture, installation, sale, creation, provision or conveyance, in any form, of vaults, including vaults installed in a grave before or after sale and including vaults joined with each other in the ground;\n(3)\tthe ownership, manufacture, installation, sale, creation, provision or conveyance, in any form, of a mausoleum intended for private use, which shall not include a mausoleum built for use by or sale to the general public membership of a religious organization;\n(4)\tthe ownership or conduct of any funeral home or mortuary, or the engaging in the business or profession of funeral directing or mortuary science;\n(5)\tthe sale, renting or leasing of any of its real property  dedicated to cemetery purposes, for the location of a funeral home or mortuary or the conduct of the business or profession of funeral directing or mortuary science; or\n(6)\tthe entering into a management contract to authorize control of its cemetery related operations with any entity that, directly or indirectly, in this State, engages in the ownership or conduct of a funeral home or mortuary or that engages in the business or profession of funeral directing or mortuary science.\nb.\tAs used in this act:\n(1)\t\"funeral directing,\" \"mortuary\" and \"mortuary science\" shall have the same meanings  as set forth in section 3 of P.L.1952, c.340 (C.45:7-34); and\n(2)\t\"mausoleum,\" \"memorial\" and \"vault\" shall have the same meanings as set forth in section 2 of P.L.2003, c.261 (C.45:27-2).\nL.2015, c.30, s.1.","path":["TITLE 16 CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"8e628d5af6570d174429804038b4035de86758348c2f673193105642210944ef","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-16-1-7","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-16-1-8"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}