If it is desired at any time to establish a cemetery for the use of a city, town, county or magisterial district, or to enlarge any such cemetery already established, and the title to land needed cannot be otherwise acquired, land sufficient for the purpose may be condemned. Application for the condemnation shall be made by the governing body of the city or town, the attorney for the Commonwealth of the county, or any ten citizens of the magisterial district, as the case may be, to the circuit court of the county or city in which the land lies, and the proceedings shall be according to the provisions of Title 25.1 for condemnation of land thereunder, so far as they can be applied to the case. The title to any land acquired under the proceedings, if for the enlargement of an existing cemetery, shall vest in the county, city or town, or in the trustees of such cemetery, as appropriate; and if for the establishment of a new cemetery, the title shall vest in the county, city or town, or in the trustees to be appointed under § 57-23, as appropriate. The land shall be held as provided by § 57-22.
Code 1919, § 53; 1997, c. 132.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 57 - Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries
§ 57-22. Conveyance of land to trustees or local governing body for cemetery use
§ 57-23. Appointment, change or removal of trustees
§ 57-24. Powers and duties of trustees
§ 57-24.1. Trustee for purpose of suit
§ 57-25. Condemnation of land for cemeteries
§ 57-26. Restrictions as to location of cemeteries and as to quantity of land
§ 57-27. City of Richmond may prohibit burials in certain cemeteries
§ 57-27.2. Correction of interment errors
§ 57-27.3. Authorization for interment
§ 57-28. Cities and counties may establish
§ 57-30. Funds from sale of lots and for perpetual upkeep
§ 57-32. Who may hold such property
§ 57-34. Amount to defray original cost not limited
§ 57-35. Trusteeship for administering funds for perpetual care
§ 57-35.36. Cemeteries owned by localities; good faith effort required prior to interment
§ 57-35.37. Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; required notice to descendants of original owner
§ 57-36. Abandoned or previously unidentified graveyards may be condemned; removal of bodies
§ 57-37. Costs of suits, removal and reinterment; how surplus above costs disposed of
§ 57-38. Exemption from §§ 57-36 and 57-37
§ 57-39. Proceedings for removal of remains and sale of land vacated
§ 57-39.1. Improvement of abandoned and neglected graveyards
§ 57-39.1:1. Recovery of abandoned interment rights; procedure; rights of owner of record
§ 57-39.2. Reversion of unoccupied cemetery lots in cities and certain towns; rebuttable presumption
§ 57-39.3. Proceedings; determination of abandonment
§ 57-39.4. Notice to owner of record; publication
§ 57-39.5. Judicial determination; conveyance of title
§ 57-39.6. Sale of abandoned cemetery lot
§ 57-39.7. Applicability; abandonment determination limited in certain circumstances
§ 57-39.19. Application of §§ 54.1-2818.1 through 54.1-2818.3
§ 57-39.21. Duty to file declaration of land use restriction
§ 57-39.22. Certain representations unlawful; perpetual care trust fund required
§ 57-39.23. Change of address required from owner of burial right