Health and Safety Code § 711.031

Sec. 711.031. RULES; CIVIL PENALTY. (a) A cemetery organization may adopt and enforce rules: (1) concerning the use, care, control, management, restriction, and protection of the cemetery operated by the cemetery organization; (2) to restrict the use of cemetery property; (3) to regulate the placement, uniformity, class, and kind of markers, monuments, effigies, and other structures in any part of the cemetery; (4) to regulate the planting and care of plants in the cemetery; (5) to prevent the interment of remains not entitled to be interred in the cemetery; (6) to prevent the use of a plot for a purpose that violates the cemetery organization's restrictions; (7) to regulate the conduct of persons on cemetery property and to prevent improper meetings at the cemetery; and (8) for other purposes the directors consider necessary for the proper conduct of the cemetery organization's business, and for the protection of the premises and the principles, plans, and ideals on which the cemetery was organized. (b) Rules adopted under this section must be plainly printed or typed and maintained for inspection in the cemetery organization's office or another place in the cemetery prescribed by the directors. (c) The directors may prescribe a penalty for the violation of a rule adopted under this section. The cemetery organization may recover the amount of the penalty in a civil action. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 634, Sec. 11, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.