Code of Alabama
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 or controlling any cemetery within this state may, with the consent and approval of the governing body of the city or town in which such cemetery is located or with the consent and approval of the governing body of the county if such cemetery is located outside the limits of an incorporated municipality, by resolution of its board of directors or other governing body, when assented to in writing filed with the secretary by at least three fourths of the lot owners and holders of such corporation or association or ratified and approved by like vote thereof at any regular meeting of the cemetery corporation or association or at a meeting specially called for that purpose, declare for the abandonment in whole or in part of such cemetery as a burial place for the human dead and for the removal of human remains interred therein to another cemetery or cemeteries in this state or for the depositing of such remains in a memorial mausoleum or columbarium as provided in this division.
(b) Any corporation sole or other person owning or controlling any cemetery or the lands on which any grave or cemetery is located in this state may also declare for the abandonment in whole or in part of any such cemetery owned or controlled by such corporation sole or other person and for the removal of human remains interred therein to another cemetery or cemeteries in this state or the depositing of such remains in a memorial mausoleum or columbarium as provided in this division.

Structure Code of Alabama

Code of Alabama

Title 11 - Counties and Municipal Corporations.

Title 2 - Provisions Applicable to Municipal Corporations Only.

Chapter 47 - Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally.

Article 2 - Cemeteries and Burial Grounds.

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.

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.

Section 11-47-62 - Declaration for Abandonment of Cemetery and Removal of Human Remains Interred Therein - Publication, Posting, and Mailing of Notice.

Section 11-47-63 - Removal and Reinterment of Remains by Corporations, etc., Generally; Notices.

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.

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.

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.

Section 11-47-67 - Reinterment of Remains Generally.

Section 11-47-68 - Erection of Markers Upon and Preparation, Filing, etc., of Maps, Plans, etc., of Lands, etc., Where Remains Reinterred.

Section 11-47-69 - Care, etc., of Lands, etc., in Which Remains Reinterred.

Section 11-47-70 - Removal, etc., of Monuments, Headstones, etc., From Graves From Which Remains Removed.

Section 11-47-71 - Sale, etc., of Lands in Abandoned Cemeteries by Corporations, etc.; Confirmation of Sales by Probate Court.

Section 11-47-72 - Filing, etc., of Declaration as to Removal of All Remains From Abandoned Cemetery.

Section 11-47-73 - Payment of Expenses of Abandonment and Removal by Corporations, etc.; Disposition of Funds of Corporation, etc., Remaining Thereafter.

Section 11-47-74 - Removal of Remains, etc., From Cemeteries Owned by Churches, Etc.