(h) Plots owned by religious corporations, unincorporated associations, or other entities that provide burial benefits for its members. With respect to any lot, plot or part thereof owned by a membership or religious corporation or unincorporated association or other entity that provides burial benefits for its members, and requires the cemetery to obtain a burial authorization from the membership, religious corporation, unincorporated association, or other entity, the following rules shall apply:

1. (1) If a cemetery receives a request to bury an individual who was a member of a membership, religious corporation, unincorporated association, or other entity that owns the lot, plot or part thereof in which the burial would be made, and despite reasonable efforts on the part of the family of the deceased, the funeral home, and/or the cemetery, no representative of the membership, religious corporation, unincorporated association, or other entity that owns the lot, plot or part thereof in which the burial would be made can be located to authorize the burial, the cemetery may, at its discretion, proceed with the interment provided that documentary evidence indicating a specific grave reservation in the lot, plot or part thereof, for the deceased individual is provided to the cemetery and further that the cemetery has recorded such reservation on its books and in its records;
2. (2) If the decedent is within the first degree of consanguinity to an individual already interred in the lot, plot or part thereof, or the spouse of the decedent is already interred in the lot, plot or part thereof, the cemetery may, at its discretion, proceed with the interment, provided some form of documentary evidence is provided to the cemetery as to the decedent's right of burial in the lot, plot or part thereof;
3. (3) The right of memorialization shall, under the circumstances described in this paragraph, pass to the person with the right of possession of the body at the time of burial; and
4. (4) Neither the cemetery nor the funeral director shall be liable for any claims, in law or equity, relating to the failure to obtain authorization from the membership, religious corporation, unincorporated association, or other entity for the use of the plot, lot, or portion thereof provided that the requirements of this paragraph have been met.