RIGHTS OF PLOT OWNERS IN CEMETERY OPERATED BY NONPROFIT CEMETERY CORPORATION.
Tex. HEALTH & SAFETY Code § 711.023.
in effect(a) A person who purchases a plot from a nonprofit cemetery corporation is a shareholder of the corporation. The person may vote in the election of corporate officers and on other matters to the same extent as a stockholder in another corporation.
(b) An owner of a plot in a cemetery operated by a nonprofit corporation is a shareholder in any corporation that owns the cemetery. The plot owner may exercise the rights and privileges of a shareholder, whether the owner acquired title to the plot from the corporation or before the corporation was organized.
(c) This section does not apply to a nonprofit cemetery corporation formed before September 1, 1963, if:
(1) the corporation was formed under Subdivision 87, Article 1302, Revised Statutes; and
(2) the charter or the articles of incorporation of the corporation provide that the corporation has no capital stock.
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1284, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.