Code of Alabama
Division 2 - Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains.
Section 11-47-74 - Removal of Remains, etc., From Cemeteries Owned by Churches, Etc.

Nothing contained in this division shall authorize or permit or be construed or deemed to authorize or permit the heirs, relatives, or friends of any deceased person whose body has been interred in any cemetery owned, governed or controlled by any religious corporation or by any church or religious society or any denomination or by any corporation sole administering temporalities of any religious denomination, society, or church or owned, governed or controlled by any person or persons as trustee or trustees for any religious denomination, society or church to disinter, remove, reinter, or dispose of any such body except in accordance with the rules, regulations, and discipline of such religious denomination, society, or church.

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.