Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
14-54-802. Regulation of burials generally.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-54-802. Regulation of burials generally.
(a) Municipal corporations shall have the power to:
(1) Regulate the burial of the dead;
(2) Provide, outside the corporate limits of the corporation, places for the interment of the dead; and
(3) Prevent any such interment within any such limits, except in public burying grounds established before the adoption of this section.
(b) Municipal corporations may not only impose proper fines and penalties but shall also have power to cause any body interred contrary to this prohibition to be taken up and buried outside the limits of the municipality.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-54-802
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: historical statutory source snapshot not current law.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: arkansas_code:legal_authorities:14-54-802
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.14.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: f86578136d8635513a082446e62b484f6a2f7fbf9cc214b541c1393a790d9546
Source location: content.xml paragraph 15403
Stored source content
14-54-802. Regulation of burials generally.
(a) Municipal corporations shall have the power to:
(1) Regulate the burial of the dead;
(2) Provide, outside the corporate limits of the corporation, places for the interment of the dead; and
(3) Prevent any such interment within any such limits, except in public burying grounds established before the adoption of this section.
(b) Municipal corporations may not only impose proper fines and penalties but shall also have power to cause any body interred contrary to this prohibition to be taken up and buried outside the limits of the municipality.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
No explicit source connection was found. This does not mean there are no relevant authorities.