Legal Research Home > New Jersey Lawyer > Civil Rights > New Jersey Civil Rights Laws Section 10:1-9. Discrimination due to color or sex in burial of dead, misdemeanor.

No cemetery corporation, association or company, organized under any law of this State, owning or having control of any cemetery or place for the burial of the dead, shall refuse to permit the burial of any deceased person therein because of the color or sex of such deceased person, and any cemetery corporation, association or company offending against this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Amended by L.1970, c. 80, s. 4, eff. June 2, 1970.

Last modified: October 21, 2006