1. (a) An alley, canal, road, or other public thoroughfare may not be opened through property of a cemetery if that property is used or to be used for burial.

2. (b) This section does not authorize a registered cemeterian, permit holder, or other person to obstruct:

   1. (1) a public road in use when the cemetery is formed; or
   2. (2) the site of a future public road that, when the cemetery is formed, is shown on a plat made by authority of the State, a county, or a municipal corporation.

Acts 1992, c. 4, § 2; renumbered from Business Regulation § 5-202 by Acts 1997, c. 675, § 1, eff. July 1, 1997; Acts 1997, c. 675, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1997. Amended by Acts 2007, c. 348, § 2, eff. July 1, 2007; Acts 2014, c. 305, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2014.

Formerly Art. 23, § 163.