Code of Alabama
Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.
Article 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.

Division 1 - General Provisions.

Section 11-47-40 - Ownership, Regulation, etc., of Municipal Cemeteries; Regulation, etc., of Establishment or Use of Private Cemeteries Within Police Jurisdiction. - All cities and towns of this state shall have the...

Section 11-47-41 - Contracts for Municipal Care and Maintenance of Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, and Graves - Authorized. - Any incorporated city or town having within its corporate limits...

Section 11-47-42 - Contracts for Municipal Care and Maintenance of Burial Grounds, Cemeteries, and Graves - Manner of Contracting. - All contracts made under the provisions of Section 11-47-41 shall...

Division 2 - Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains.

Section 11-47-60 - Declaration for Abandonment of Cemetery and Removal of Human Remains Interred Therein - Adoption, Etc. - (a) Any cemetery corporation or association, including religious bodies, owning...

Section 11-47-61 - Declaration for Abandonment of Cemetery and Removal of Human Remains Interred Therein - Specification as to Removal of Remains After Two Months. - Any resolution or declaration for abandonment and removal duly adopted...

Section 11-47-62 - Declaration for Abandonment of Cemetery and Removal of Human Remains Interred Therein - Publication, Posting, and Mailing of Notice. - (a) Notice of the said declaration of abandonment and of...

Section 11-47-63 - Removal and Reinterment of Remains by Corporations, etc., Generally; Notices. - (a) After the completion of the publication, posting and mailing...

Section 11-47-64 - Notice to Board of Health of Removal of Remains, etc.; Removal of Remains, etc., Subject to Rules and Regulations of Board of Health. - (a) Any cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person...

Section 11-47-65 - Voluntary Removal of Remains by Relative or Friend of Person Interred or by Owner of Plat or Lot; Affidavit of Person Removing Remains. - At any time prior to the removal by said cemetery...

Section 11-47-66 - Purchase and Sale of Lands, etc., for Reinterment of Remains From Abandoned Cemeteries; Reservation of Lands in Abandoned Cemeteries for Erection of Memorial Mausoleum, Etc. - (a) Whenever any such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or...

Section 11-47-67 - Reinterment of Remains Generally. - Whenever under the provisions of this division the remains of...

Section 11-47-68 - Erection of Markers Upon and Preparation, Filing, etc., of Maps, Plans, etc., of Lands, etc., Where Remains Reinterred. - After the removal and reinterment or deposit in a mausoleum...

Section 11-47-69 - Care, etc., of Lands, etc., in Which Remains Reinterred. - Whenever any cemetery corporation or association having a board of...

Section 11-47-70 - Removal, etc., of Monuments, Headstones, etc., From Graves From Which Remains Removed. - (a) Whenever the remains of any person shall have been...

Section 11-47-71 - Sale, etc., of Lands in Abandoned Cemeteries by Corporations, etc.; Confirmation of Sales by Probate Court. - (a) Whenever such a cemetery or part thereof has been...

Section 11-47-72 - Filing, etc., of Declaration as to Removal of All Remains From Abandoned Cemetery. - After the removal of all human remains interred in any...

Section 11-47-73 - Payment of Expenses of Abandonment and Removal by Corporations, etc.; Disposition of Funds of Corporation, etc., Remaining Thereafter. - (a) Whenever any cemetery corporation or association shall have resolved...

Section 11-47-74 - Removal of Remains, etc., From Cemeteries Owned by Churches, Etc. - Nothing contained in this division shall authorize or permit or...