ADRE LAW BOOK 2025

ARTICLE 6 - ORGANIZATION AND REGULATION OF CEMETER IES

32-2194. Exceptions This chapter does not apply to any of the following:

1. Any religious corporation, church, religious society or denomination, a corporation sole administering temporalities of any church or religious society or denomination, or any cemetery organized, controlled and operated by any of them. 2. A private or municipal cemetery. 3. Any fraternal burial park not exceeding ten acres in area, established before July 2, 1963, in which the sale of burial spaces is restricted exclusively to its members. 4. The superintendent of the Arizona pioneers’ home and the Arizona pioneers’ home cem etery. 32-2194.01. Notice to commissioner of intention to sell cemetery property; exceptions; re strictions A. Before offering cemetery plots for sale, the owner or agent shall notify the commissioner in writ ing and the notice shall contain: 1. The name and address of the owner. If the holder of any ownership interest in the cem etery is other than an individual, such as a corporation, partnership or trust, a statement naming the type of legal entity and listing the interest and the extent of such interest of each principal in the entity. For the purposes of this paragraph, “principal” means any person or entity having a ten per cent or more financial interest or, if the legal entity is a trust, each beneficiary of the trust holding a ten per cent or more beneficial interest. 2. The legal description and area of the lands. 3. A true statement of the condition of the title to the land, including all encumbrances on the land. 4. The terms and conditions on which it is intended to dispose of the land, together with copies of any real estate sales contract, conveyance, lease, assignment or other instrument intended to be used, and other information the owner or agent desires to present. 5. A map of the cemetery which has been filed in the office of the county recorder in the county in which the cemetery is located. 6. A comprehensive statement describing the land on and the locality in which the cemetery is located. 7. A true statement of the use or uses for which the proposed cemetery will be offered. 8. A true statement of the provisions, if any, limiting the use of the plots in the cemetery, together with copies of any restrictive covenants affecting all or part of the cemetery. 9. The name and business address of the designated broker selling within this state plots in the cemetery. If the designated broker is changed the cemetery shall advise the department in writing without the requirement of an amended filing. 10. A true statement of the approximate amount of indebtedness which is a lien on the

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