# Business Regulation (GBR)

## Title 5. Cemeteries

### Subtitle 1. Definitions; General Provisions

#### Section 5-102

(a) The registration and permitting provisions of this title do not apply to:

  (1) a person that owns and operates a bona fide religious-nonprofit cemetery in this State;

  (2) a cemetery owned by a nonprofit organization created before 1900 by an act of the General Assembly;

  (3) a county, city, or municipal corporation that owns and operates a cemetery in the State;

  (4) a veterans' cemetery operated by the State; or

  (5) a private family cemetery that does not conduct public sales.

(b) This title does not apply to:

  (1) the operation of a funeral establishment, including the sale of burial goods in the ordinary course of the funeral establishment's business;

  (2) the operation or ownership of a crematory, incinerator, or reduction facility;

  (3) a licensed funeral director acting within the scope of the funeral director's license; or

  (4) a mortician acting within the scope of the mortician's license.

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Md. Code Ann., Bus. Reg. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)