Opinion No. (2007)

Dear Representative Reynolds:

This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask the following question:

Does 8 O.S. 2001, § 6[8-6] mandate that a burial lot containing space for more than one deceased individual is forever inalienable in its entirety when an interment is made in less than the entire lot?

THE CEMETERY CORPORATION ACT

The Cemetery Corporation Act ("Act"), 8 O.S. 2001, §§ 1[8-1] — 37, governs cemetery corporations. The Act provides for the sale, maintenance and administration of land reserved for burial of the dead. Your question relates…