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Funerals / Burials / Cemeteries

• Agencies & Organizations
  • WI Dept. of Safety and Professional Services
    Regulates cemeteries and cemetery professionals.
  • Funeral Consumers Alliance
• Cemetery Records
  • Find a Grave
  • Interment.net
• Cemetery Business Professionals and Boards (WI Dept. of Safety & Professional Services)
• Control of Disposition of Certain Human Remains; Advance Directives (WI Legislative Council, 2008)
• County Fees (WI Dept. of Health Services)
  For cremation release, disinterment permit and coroner/medical examiner case filing.
• Death Services: State Regulation of the Death Care Industry Varies (US Gov't Accountability Office)
  Appendix VII includes overview of Wisconsin's regulation of the death care industry.
• Forms
  • Authorization for Final Disposition (WI Dept. of Health Services)
• Funerals: a Consumer Guide (Federal Trade Commission)
• 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: s. 154.30 "Control of Final Disposition of Certain Human Remains"
• 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 Statutes: s. 979.09 "Burial of Body"
• 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: SPS 52-54 Cemeteries
• WI Admin. Code: VA 14 "State Veterans Cemeteries"
• Federal
  • 16 CFR 453 "Funeral Rule" (Federal Trade Commission)
    Text of law and guide on complying with the funeral rule.  Guide includes information on price lists, prohibited practices and what consumers cannot be required to purchase.
  • 40 CFR 229.1 "Burial at Sea"
  • Funeral Rule Opinions (Federal Trade Commission)

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Last Updated: April 9, 2012 | Up to Top