Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 16 - History, Humanities and Arts
Part 3 - Historic Preservation Division
Chapter 6 - Criteria for the Certification of Historical Significance of Abandoned Cemeteries under the Provisions of House Bill No. 780 Laws of Mississippi, 1971
Rule 16-3-6.1 - The request for a certificate of historical significance must pertain to an abandoned cemetery

A. For the purposes of the implementation of this act, an abandoned cemetery shall be construed to be one that is not adequately maintained by its legal owner or owners, whether religious bodies, private individuals, or governmental agencies.

B. An abandoned cemetery shall also be interpreted as one in which no burials have been made in the fifty years preceding the date of the official, written request to the Board of Trustees of the Department of Archives and History for a certificate of historical significance with no future planned burials.

C. A single grave, in some instances, may constitute an abandoned cemetery.

D. American Indian burial grounds shall be regarded as abandoned cemeteries.