35-21-704. Destruction or injury of property -- interference with funeral or interment -- misdemeanor. (1) A person is guilty of criminal mischief and is punishable as provided in 45-6-101 who without right knowingly does any of the following:
     (a) destroys, cuts, mutilates, effaces, or otherwise injures, tears down, or removes a crypt, niche, monument, memorial, or marker in a mausoleum or columbarium or a gate, door, fence, wall, post, or railing or an inclosure for the protection of a crypt or niche or any other property in a mausoleum or columbarium;
     (b) destroys, cuts, breaks, removes, or injures a building, statuary, ornamentation, tree, shrub, flower, or plant within a mausoleum or columbarium or within the limits of any grounds within which a mausoleum or columbarium is located.
     (2) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor who without right knowingly disturbs, obstructs, detains, or interferes with a person carrying or accompanying human remains to a mausoleum, columbarium, or funeral establishment or a person who is engaged in a funeral service or an interment.

     History: En. Sec. 30, Ch. 35, L. 1949; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 62, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 9-1004.