JFC Establishes Cemetery Board
The committee's last piece of business before adjourning at 4:35 p.m. was to create a six-member cemetery board that will serve under the Dept. of Regulation and Licensing.
By way of selling the new board, Assembly Co-Chair Dean Kaufert said there are 5,000 cemeteries in the state but only 75 are regulated. He pointed out financial difficulties in cemeteries across the state, and said representatives from the state Cemetery Association have come forward seeking a self-run board that can investigate and impose disciplinary actions.
The board will oversee for-profit cemeteries, and its oversight will not include religious cemeteries or small cemeteries.
The committee is planning to meet next week on Wednesday at 1 p.m. and Thursday at 10 a.m.
