Ohio Revised Code Title XLVII. Occupations Professions § 4767.09

(A) The owner or person responsible for the operation of a cemetery registered with the division of real estate in the department of commerce shall provide reasonable maintenance of the cemetery property and of all lots, graves, mausoleums, scattering grounds, and columbaria in the cemetery based on the type and size of the cemetery, topographic limitation, and contractual commitments with consumers.

(B) In determining whether the owner or person responsible for the operation of a cemetery registered with the division provides reasonable maintenance of the cemetery property, the division or the cemetery dispute resolution commission may consider all of the following:

(C) The owner or person responsible for the operation of the cemetery registered with the division, in the course of providing reasonable maintenance, may not preclude the exercise of lawful rights by the owner of an interment, inurnment, or entombment right, or by the decedent's immediate family or other heirs in accordance with the rules and regulations of the cemetery or other agreement of the cemetery authority.

(D) In the case of a cemetery or any portion of a cemetery dedicated as a nature preserve, reasonable maintenance by the owner or person responsible for the operation of the cemetery shall be in accordance with the regulations of the cemetery or the master plan governing the cemetery.

(E) A cemetery shall maintain electronic or paper cemetery records pertaining to interment, entombment, or inurnment right owners and interment, entombment, or inurnment records indicating the deceased's name, place of death, and date and location of the interment, entombment, or inurnment in the cemetery's office. Records may be maintained in an electronic formation only if the electronic copies are true copies of the original documents.