Section 23-14-68-4.5 - Trustee financial assistance to cemetery with insufficient funds(a) If the trustee of a township reasonably believes that:(1) the funds available to a cemetery that is located in the township and described in section 1(b) of this chapter from:(A) the perpetual care fund maintained by the owner of the cemetery under IC 23-14-48; and(B) any other source; are not sufficient to provide for the maintenance of the cemetery; and
(2) providing financial assistance to the cemetery described in subdivision (1) will help to prevent the full responsibility for maintenance of the cemetery from falling on the township under:(A) sections 1(a) and 4(a)(1) of this chapter;(C) another provision of this article; the trustee may provide financial assistance to the cemetery for the maintenance of the cemetery.
(b) Financial assistance provided by a trustee to a cemetery under this section may be provided from: (1) the fund for maintenance of cemeteries created under section 4(b) of this chapter; or(2) money appropriated under section 4(a)(2) of this chapter.Added by P.L. 14-2018,SEC. 11, eff. 7/1/2018.