Funerals / Burials / Cemeteries

• Cemetery Records
  • Find a Grave
  • Interment.net
• Cemetery Business Professionals and Boards (WI Dept. of Regulation and Licensing)
• Control of Disposition of Certain Human Remains; Advance Directives (WI Legislative Council, 2008)
• County Fees for Cremation Release, Disinterment Permit and
  Coroner/Medical Examiner Case Filing (WI Dept. of Health Services)
• Forms
  • Authorization for Final Disposition (WI Dept. of Health Services)
• Planning a Funeral (WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection)
• Powers and Duties of Coroners and Medical Examiners (WI Legislative Council, 2005)
• Reporting Procedures for Statutorily Reportable Deaths (WI Dept. of Health Services)
• Wisconsin Burial Sites
  Burial site preservation and information for landowners who may have a burial site on their land.

The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)

• WI Statutes: s. 45.60 - 45.62; 45.84 - 45.85 Veterans: Funerals, Burials, Cemeteries
• WI Statutes: s. 69.18 "Death Records"
• WI Statutes: ch. 157 "Disposition of Human Remains"
• WI Statutes: s. 157.06 "Anatomical Gifts"
• WI Statutes: ch. 440 sub. ch. VIII "Cemetery Authorities, Salespersons and Preneed Sellers"
• WI Statutes: s. 440.80 "Disposition of Cremated Remains"
• WI Statutes: ch. 445 "Funeral Directors"
• WI Statutes: s. 943.012 "Criminal Damage to or Graffiti on Religious and Other Property"
• WI Statutes: s. 947.011 "Disrupting a Funeral or Memorial Service"
• WI Admin. Code: CB 1-2 "Cemetery Board"
• WI Admin. Code: FD 1-6 "Funeral Directors Examining Board"
• WI Admin. Code: DHS 135 "Human Corpses and Stillbirths"
• WI Admin. Code: HS 1 "Burial Sites Preservation Board"
• WI Admin. Code: HS 2 "Burial Sites Preservation Program"
• WI Admin. Code: RL 52-54 Cemeteries
• WI Admin. Code: VA 14 "State Veterans Cemeteries"

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Last Updated: February 8, 2010 | Up to Top