As used in this part:

1. (1) “Board” means the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services;
2. (2) “Care and maintenance” means the continual maintenance of the cemetery grounds and graves in keeping with a properly maintained cemetery;

3. (3)

   1. (A) “Cemetery” means any land or structure in this state dedicated to, and used or intended to be used for, interment of human remains.

   2. (B) It may be either a:

      1. (i) Burial park for earth interments;
      2. (ii) Mausoleum for vault or crypt interments; or
      3. (iii) Combination of one (1) or more burial parks for earth interments and mausoleums for vault or crypt interments;
4. (4) “Cemetery company” means an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, or association, now or hereafter organized, owning or controlling cemetery lands or property, and conducting the business of a cemetery or making an application to the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services to own or control the lands, or conduct the business;

5. (5)

   1. (A) “Cemetery deed” or “instrument of conveyance” means a deed or certificate that conveys the right of interment or entombment in the lot or grave space.
   2. (B) The right of interment or entombment is subject to the rules of the perpetual care cemetery;
6. (6) “Columbarium” means a structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of cremated human remains;
7. (7) “Crypt” means a chamber in a wall that is built of sufficient size to inter casketed human remains;
8. (8) “Infant interment garden” means a designated area in a perpetual care cemetery for the interments of infants and children no more than twenty-four (24) months of age;
9. (9) “Interment” means the lawful disposition of the remains of a deceased person as provided by law;
10. (10) “Lawn crypt” means an interment space sometimes referred to as a “belowground crypt”, “Westminster”, or “turf top crypt” in a preplaced chamber or burial vault either side-by-side or at multiple depths, covered by earth and sod;
11. (11) “Lot” or “grave space” means a space of ground in a cemetery used or intended to be used for interment therein;
12. (12) “Mausoleum” means a community-type structure or room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of human remains in crypts or niches;
13. (13) “Niche” means a space in a columbarium that is used or intended to be used for the interment of the cremated remains of one (1) or more deceased persons;
14. (14) “Permit holder” means a cemetery company that holds a permit issued by the State Board of Embalmers, Funeral Directors, Cemeteries, and Burial Services to own or operate a perpetual care cemetery;
15. (15) “Perpetual care cemetery” means a cemetery for the benefit of which a permanent maintenance fund has been established; and

16. (16) “Properly maintained” means that care and maintenance services are provided, including without limitation:

    1. (A) Mowing the grass;
    2. (B) Weed trimming around lots or grave spaces and fences or property lines of the cemetery;
    3. (C) Emptying trash receptacles; and
    4. (D) Removing excess dirt, tree limbs, leaves, trash, and other debris from the grounds.