CHAPTER 421

H.P. 1175 - L.D. 1602

An Act To Revise and Amend Certain Public Health Laws

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 13 MRSA §1101-A, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 700, §2, is amended to read:

§1101-A. Definitions

As used in this article, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following term has terms have the following meaning meanings.

1. Ancient burying ground. "Ancient burying ground" means a private cemetery established before 1880.

2. Columbarium.__"Columbarium" means a structure or room or space in a mausoleum or other building containing niches or recesses for disposition of cremated human remains.

3.__Community mausoleum.__"Community mausoleum" means an aboveground structure designed for entombment of human remains of the general public, as opposed to the entombment of the remains of family members in a privately owned, family mausoleum of no more than 6 crypts.

Sec. 2. 13 MRSA §1341, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1999, c. 620, §1, is amended to read:

1. Mausoleum, crematory or other structure. A community mausoleum, community crematory or other community structure that