35-21-425. Family plot -- persons who may be interred -- priorities. (1) In a family plot, one crypt or one niche or interment space therein may be used for the owner's interment; one for the owner's surviving spouse, if any, who by law has a vested right of interment in it; and in those remaining, if any, the parents and children of the deceased owner in order of death may be interred without the consent of any person claiming any interest in the plot.
     (2) If no parent or child survives, the right of interment goes in the order of death first to the spouse of any child of the record owner, and second in the order of death to the next heirs-at-law of the owner or the spouse of any heir-at-law.

     History: En. Secs. 83, 84, Ch. 35, L. 1949; R.C.M. 1947, 9-829, 9-830.