2005 Minnesota Statutes

     306.15 Lots, conveyance. 

    (a) When a lot in a cemetery, or an entombment or inurnment 
 space in a mausoleum, has been sold or conveyed for burial 
 purposes, the lot, entombment, or inurnment space is then 
 inalienable, except as provided in this section.  

    (b) The original purchaser of the lot, entombment, or 
 inurnment space may sell or convey any part of it to the 
 cemetery that is not actually occupied by interments or by 
 entombed or inurned human remains.  

    (c) A person who has inherited the lot, entombment, or 
 inurnment space may sell or convey any part of it to the 
 cemetery that is not actually occupied by interments or by 
 entombed or inurned human remains.  

    (d) When, by the consent of the owner, the lot, entombment, 
 or inurnment space will be solely used by some other person as a 
 family burial place, the owner may convey it to the person so 
 using it.  

    (e) There must be filed with the cemetery a copy of an 
 agreement of sale signed and acknowledged by the owner (and 
 spouse, if any) and the proposed purchaser, transferring title 
 to the cemetery and requesting that the cemetery issue a new 
 conveyance of the lot or space directly to the purchaser in 
 consideration of the payment by the purchaser to the owner of a 
 specified price which must not be more than the price that would 
 be charged by the cemetery in its sale of a similar lot or space.

    Upon filing the agreement, a reasonable transfer and 
 service charge of not more than $15 must be paid to the cemetery 
 and the cemetery shall then promptly issue a conveyance of the 
 lot or space to the designated purchaser. 

    (f) The cemetery may use any of its funds to repurchase 
 lots, entombments, or inurnment spaces, as provided herein, and 
 may hold or again sell and convey them. 

    HIST: (7569) RL s 2947; 1943 c 253 s 1; 1951 c 492 s 1; 1967 c 
 623 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1