Links to Maine Revised Statutes relating to cemeteries are provided here for your convenience.  MOCA advises that you refer to Maine Revised Statutes online for additional research and/or updates**.  

ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES

• Prohibited acts 12§1315-A

ANCIENT BURYING GROUNDS

• Maintenance and repairs by town 13§1101
• Definition 13§1101-A
• Ancient burying ground 13§1101-B
• Notice of responsibility 13§1101-C
• Unorganized townships 13§1101-D
• Graves on land owned by the Federal Government 13§1101-E
• Neglect 13§1102

BOARD OF FUNERAL SERVICES

• Board; powers and duties 32§1451

CEMETERY CORPORATIONS

• Establishment and Powers 13§1031 - 1032 - 1033 - 1034 - 1035 - 1036
• Incorporation 13§1071
• Non-Profit Corporation status 13-B§201
• Grounds inalienable: description recorded 13§1141
• Family burying grounds 13§1142
• Lots 13§1143
• Enlargement of Grounds 13§1181 - 1182 - 1183 - 1184
• Conveyance to Town 13§1221 - 1222 - 1223 - 1224
• Trust Funds 13§1261 - 1262 - 1263 - 1264 - 1265
• Solicitation of cemetery or crematory services or property 13§1266
• Penalties 13§1267

CRIMINAL CONDUCT

• Criminal trespass 17-A§402
• Desecration and defacement 17-A§507
• Interference with cemetery or burial ground 17-A§507-A
• Illegal possession or sale of gravestones 17-A§507-B
• Abuse of corpse 17-A§508

DEATH AND BURIALS

• Penalties 22§2708
• Registration of fetal deaths 22§2841
• Registration of deaths 22§2842
• Permits for final disposition of dead human bodies 22§2843
• Custody of remains of deceased persons 22§2843-A
• Subregistrars 22§2844

DEORGANIZED PLACES

• Cemetery trust funds 30-A§7305

EXCAVATIONS FOR BORROW, CLAY, TOPSOIL, OR SILT

• Performance standards 38§490-D

FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND EMBALMERS

• Definitions 32§1400
• Prearranged funerals or burial plans 32§1401
• Employment of funeral directors, embalmers or practitioners of funeral services by cemeteries prohibited 32§1403
• Cremation 32§1405
• Disposition of Cremains 32§1405-A
• Grave markers 32§1406

HEALTH, WELFARE AND IMPROVEMENTS

• Abandoned Cemeteries 30-A§3107

INSURANCE PRACTICES AND FRAUDS

• Insurer’s ownership of funeral establishment or cemetery 24-A§2175
• Funeral and burial service contracts prohibited 24-A§2176

JUNKYARDS AND AUTOMOBILE GRAVEYARDS

• Automobile recycling business permits; operational standards
  

MAUSOLEUMS AND VAULTS

• Location 13§1341
• Approval of health authority 13§1342
• Type of construction; examinations 13§1343
• Supervisory control of health authorities 13§1344
• No use before completion 13§1345
• No sale before completion 13§1346
• Improper conditions; removal of bodies 13§1347
• Permanent care and improvement fraud 13§1348
• Custodian 13§1349

MEDICAL EXAMINER

• Medical examiner case 22§3025
• Disposal of unidentified remains 22§3028-A
• Body buried without inquiry 22§3029

MONUMENTAL WORK

• Contract price; attachment 10§3701

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

• Maintenance & Repairs; municipality (veteran's burials) 13§1101
• Adjutant General as Next of Kin for Veteran's Grave Markers 37-B§515
• Decoration of veterans graves on Memorial Day; erection of flagpoles 30-A§2901
• Public works 30-A§5723

MUNICIPAL GENERAL ASSISTANCE

• Reimbursement to individuals relieving eligible persons; prior approval; emergencies 22§4313

NATURAL GAS PIPELINE UTILITIES

• Exemption from eminent domain 35-A§4710

PLANNING AND LAND USE

• Enforcement of land use laws and ordinances 30-A4452

PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION

• Approval for repair, maintenance and removal 13§1371
• Limitations on construction and excavation near burial sites 13§1371-A
• Inventories of cemeteries or burial grounds 13§1372
• Authority to maintain 13§1373
• Perpetual Care fund by Court Order 4§310

PUBLIC CEMETERIES

• Incorporation; exemption from attachment and taxation 13§1301
• Recording of deeds 13§1302
• Ownership and operation 13§1303
• Sales for speculation or investment 13§1304
• Care and maintenance 13§1305
• Cemetery perpetual care funds 13§1306

QUARRIES

• Performance standards for quarries 38§490-Z

SNOWMOBILES

• Operation of snowmobile 12§13106-A

TAXATION

• Property of institutions and organizations 36§652

UNOPENED INTERMENT

• Use of unoccupied interment spaces 13§1381
• Notice of use 13§1382
• Form of notice 13§1383
• Service of notice 13§1384
• Resale of unoccupied interment spaces 13§1385
• Applicability 13§1386