This subchapter does not affect the right of a person to maintain a grave or burial lot in a cemetery if the person:

1. (1) has an interest in the grave or burial lot; or
2. (2) is related within the fifth degree by affinity or consanguinity, as determined under Chapter 573, Government Code, to, or is a direct descendant of, a decedent interred in a cemetery maintained by a trustee under this subchapter.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.

Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 561, Sec. 34, eff. Aug. 26, 1991;

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.95(27), eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 914 (H.B. 2927), Sec. 15, eff. September 1, 2009.