As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Abandoned cemetery" means any cemetery where there has been a failure to cut grass or weeds or care for graves, grave markers, walls, fences, driveways, and buildings, or for which proper records have not been maintained.
2. "Cemetery" means a cemetery, mausoleum, columbarium, or other space held for the purpose of burial, entombment, or inurnment of human remains, and which is subject to this chapter.
3. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of insurance or the deputy appointed under section 502.601.
4. "Interment rights" means a right of use conveyed by contract or property ownership to inter human remains in a columbarium, grave, mausoleum, lawn crypt, or undeveloped space.
5. "Perpetual care cemetery" means a cemetery which has established a perpetual care fund for the maintenance, repair, and care of all interment spaces subject to perpetual care within the cemetery in compliance with section 566A.3 or 566A.4.
95 Acts, ch 149, §22; 96 Acts, ch 1034, § 49
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