Funerals / Burials / Cemeteries
- Agencies & Organizations
- Cemetery Board - WI Dept. of Safety and Professional Services
Regulates cemeteries and cemetery professionals. - Wisconsin Funeral and Cemetery Aids Program (WFCAP)
Payments for unmet cemetery, funeral, or cremation costs to eligible decedents.
- Cemetery Board - WI Dept. of Safety and Professional Services
- Cemetery Records
- Cemetery Business Professionals and Boards (WI Dept. of Safety & Professional Services)
- Control of Disposition of Certain Human Remains; Advance Directives (WI Legislative Council, 2008)
- 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. - Family Disposition of Human Remains (Family Burial) (WI Dept. of Health Services)
- Forms
- Authorization for Final Disposition (WI Dept. of Health Services)
- Shopping for Funeral Services (Federal Trade Commission)
- Reporting of Client / Patient / Resident 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. - Wisconsin Cemetery Regulations & FAQ (Position Statements) (WI Dept. of Safety & Professional Services)
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. IX "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 1-5 "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: 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)
- 16 CFR 453 "Funeral Rule" (Federal Trade Commission)
Search for more statutes, regulations & opinions.
Related Topics
Law Review Articles
- Enforcement of preference expressed by decedent as to disposition of his body after death
54 A.L.R.3d 1037 - Funeral and Cemetery Trusts and Audit Liability
Trusts & Estates 139.9 (Sept 2000) - Liability for desecration of graves and tombstones
77 A.L.R. 4th 108
Library Resources
- Cemetery law: the Common Law of burying grounds in the United States
- Death in Wisconsin: a Legal Practitioners Guide to Postmortem Administration
- Funerals: a Consumer Guide
- Plan Your Estate