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Chapter 1 - Religious Freedom
§ 57-1. Act for religious freedom recited - The General Assembly, on January 16, 1786, passed an act...
§ 57-2. Rights asserted therein reaffirmed - The General Assembly does hereby declare again that the rights...
§ 57-2.01. Religious Freedom Week and Day - On the 200th Anniversary of the enactment of the Virginia...
§ 57-2.02. Religious freedom preserved; definitions; applicability; construction; remedies - A. As used in this section: "Demonstrates" means meets the...
§ 57-2.1. Advertising by hotels, etc., that persons find objectionable because of religion; exemptions - A. As used in this section: "Establishment" means any building...
Chapter 2 - Church Property; Benevolent Associations and Objects
§ 57-3. Appropriation of glebe lands and church property - A. The glebe lands and church property, or the proceeds...
§ 57-4. Donations to vestries for charitable purposes - Where, previous to January 30, 1806, any donation was made...
§ 57-5. R. E. Lee Camp; Pelham Chapel - The act entitled "An act to incorporate R. E. Lee...
§ 57-6. Lee Memorial Association - The act entitled "An act to incorporate the Lee Memorial...
§ 57-6.1. Validity of literary, educational, and charitable gifts, grants, devises, or bequests - Every gift, grant, devise, or bequest made on or after...
§ 57-7. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1993, c. 370.
§ 57-7.1. What transfers for religious purposes valid - Every conveyance or transfer of real or personal property, whether...
§ 57-8. Appointment of trustees to effect the purposes of conveyances, etc.; validation of certain appointments - The circuit court of the county or the circuit court...
§ 57-9. How property rights determined on division of church or society - A. If a division has heretofore occurred or shall hereafter...
§ 57-10. How trustees to hold personal property - When personal property shall be given or acquired for the...
§ 57-11. Suits by and against trustees - Such trustees, and such as are mentioned in §§ 57-21,...
§ 57-12. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, c. 813.
§ 57-13. Suits by members against trustees to compel proper application of property - Any one or more members of any church diocese or...
§ 57-14. Suits by members to have land sold or mortgaged - Whenever the governing body of any church diocese or any...
§ 57-15. Proceedings by trustees or members for similar purposes, exception for certain transfers - A. The trustees of such a church diocese, congregation, or...
§ 57-15.1. Order may provide that fiscal officer may sign instrument without personal liability - Any order entered pursuant to §§ 57-14 and 57-15 may...
§ 57-16. Property held, etc., by ecclesiastical officers - A. How property acquired, held, transferred, etc. -- Whenever the...
§ 57-16.1. Property of unincorporated church held by corporation - Whenever the laws, rules, or ecclesiastic polity of an unincorporated...
§ 57-17. Conveyance of church land held in adverse possession - Whenever any church in the Commonwealth has been in the...
§ 57-18. Conveyance for charitable purpose to unincorporated bodies or societies - In any case where, since June 18, 1914, there has...
§ 57-19. Conveyances of land to benevolent and other associations to be subject to certain sections - When any conveyance of land has been or shall be...
§ 57-20. Quantity of land benevolent and other associations may hold - Except as otherwise provided in this section, the trustee for...
§ 57-21. May hold personal property through trustees - Any such association may acquire personal property for its use,...
Chapter 3 - Cemeteries
§ 57-22. Conveyance of land to trustees or local governing body for cemetery use - A. Land may be conveyed to trustees, not less than...
§ 57-23. Appointment, change or removal of trustees - On the application of the governing body of a city...
§ 57-24. Powers and duties of trustees - Such trustees and their successors shall have power to make...
§ 57-24.1. Trustee for purpose of suit - In the case of any private or family graveyard, where...
§ 57-25. Condemnation of land for cemeteries - If it is desired at any time to establish a...
§ 57-26. Restrictions as to location of cemeteries and as to quantity of land - (1) Restrictions as to location. -- No cemetery shall be...
§ 57-27. City of Richmond may prohibit burials in certain cemeteries - The governing body of the City of Richmond may, by...
§ 57-27.1. Access to cemeteries located on private property; cause of action for injunctive relief; applicability - A. Owners of private property on which a cemetery or...
§ 57-27.2. Correction of interment errors - A. In any instance where the operator of a cemetery...
§ 57-27.3. Authorization for interment - A cemetery may accept the notarized signature of one next...
§ 57-28. Cities and counties may establish - Any city and county, or any number of cities and...
§ 57-29. Trustees - After acquiring and planning such cemetery or cemeteries, the circuit...
§ 57-30. Funds from sale of lots and for perpetual upkeep - The trustees shall, upon delivery of a deed for any...
§ 57-31. May be in perpetuity - No disposition of property heretofore or hereafter made for the...
§ 57-32. Who may hold such property - Any cemetery company chartered under the laws of the Commonwealth,...
§ 57-33. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1995, c. 255.
§ 57-34. Amount to defray original cost not limited - Nothing contained in this article shall be construed as limiting...
§ 57-35. Trusteeship for administering funds for perpetual care - The board of directors of any incorporated cemetery company may...
§ 57-35.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1989, c. 631.
§ 57-35.11. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1998, cc. 708 and 721, effective July...
§ 57-35.35:1. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 57-35.36. Cemeteries owned by localities; good faith effort required prior to interment - Notwithstanding the exemptions provided for in § 54.1-2312, a cemetery...
§ 57-35.37. Sale of cemeteries owned by a locality; required notice to descendants of original owner - A. No cemetery owned by a county or city shall...
§ 57-36. Abandoned or previously unidentified graveyards may be condemned; removal of bodies - A. When a graveyard, wholly or partly within any locality,...
§ 57-37. Costs of suits, removal and reinterment; how surplus above costs disposed of - In the event that the proceeds from the condemnation are...
§ 57-38. Exemption from §§ 57-36 and 57-37 - Sections 57-36 and 57-37 shall not apply to any graveyard...
§ 57-38.1. Proceedings by landowner for removal of remains from previously unidentified or abandoned family graveyard - The owner of any land on which is located a...
§ 57-38.2. Proceedings by heir at law or descendant for removal of ancestor's remains from previously unidentified or abandoned family graveyard - Any heir at law or descendant of a deceased person...
§ 57-39. Proceedings for removal of remains and sale of land vacated - When the owners of a graveyard, or the trustees of...
§ 57-39.1. Improvement of abandoned and neglected graveyards - When the owners of any private graveyard, not connected with...
§ 57-39.1:1. Recovery of abandoned interment rights; procedure; rights of owner of record - A. When interment rights that have been granted by the...
§ 57-39.2. Reversion of unoccupied cemetery lots in cities and certain towns; rebuttable presumption - The ownership of or right or interest in any unoccupied...
§ 57-39.3. Proceedings; determination of abandonment - Any city, town, corporation, association, or trustees having ownership and...
§ 57-39.4. Notice to owner of record; publication - At least 20 days before the date fixed for the...
§ 57-39.5. Judicial determination; conveyance of title - At the hearing authorized by § 57-39.4, the proofs of...
§ 57-39.6. Sale of abandoned cemetery lot - At any time after entry of the decree adjudicating any...
§ 57-39.7. Applicability; abandonment determination limited in certain circumstances - Sections 57-39.2 through 57-39.6 shall be construed to apply to...
§ 57-39.8. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1989, c. 631.
§ 57-39.19. Application of §§ 54.1-2818.1 through 54.1-2818.3 - The provisions of §§ 54.1-2818.1 through 54.1-2818.3 shall apply to...
§ 57-39.20. Definitions - As used in this article, unless the context requires a...
§ 57-39.21. Duty to file declaration of land use restriction - The owner of any land used or to be used...
§ 57-39.22. Certain representations unlawful; perpetual care trust fund required - A. Effective July 1, 1996, it shall be unlawful to...
§ 57-39.23. Change of address required from owner of burial right - It shall be the duty of a purchaser of a...
§ 57-39.24. Removal of restriction on land - A. After a declaration has been filed pursuant to §...
§ 57-39.25. Violation a misdemeanor - It shall be unlawful for any person to violate the...
Chapter 4 - Solicitation of Contributions
§ 57-40. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1974, c. 574.
Chapter 5 - Solicitation of Contributions
§ 57-48. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a...
§ 57-49. Registration of charitable organizations; prohibition against support of terrorists - A. Every charitable organization, except as otherwise provided in this...
§ 57-50. Reciprocal agreements with other states; online filing - A. The Commissioner may enter into a reciprocal agreement with...
§ 57-51. Nonresident registration - (a) Any unregistered charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel or professional...
§ 57-52. Publication of warnings concerning certain charitable and civic organizations - If the Commissioner determines that any charitable or civic organization...
§ 57-52.1. Publication of warnings concerning solicitation by professional solicitors - If the Commissioner determines that any charitable or civic organization...
§ 57-53. Records to be kept by charitable organizations - Every charitable organization shall keep true fiscal records for all...
§ 57-54. Contracts between charitable or civic organizations and professional fund-raising counsel or professional solicitors - A. Every contract or agreement between professional fund-raising counsel and...
§ 57-55. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1980, c. 445.
§ 57-55.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1990, c. 711.
§ 57-55.2. Charitable solicitation disclosure - Every professional solicitor who solicits contributions from a prospective contributor...
§ 57-55.2:1. Solicitations by for-profit organizations - A. Every solicitor for an organization which is for-profit which...
§ 57-55.3. Disclosure regarding financial statement required - Every charitable organization required to be registered pursuant to §...
§ 57-55.4. Collection receptacles; required disclosures - No (i) business as defined in § 58.1-3700.1, other than...
§ 57-56. Information filed to become public records - Registration statements, reports, professional fund-raising counsel contracts or professional solicitor...
§ 57-57. Prohibited acts - A. No charitable organization shall use or exploit the fact...
§ 57-58. Ratio of fund-raising expenses to contributions to be included in registration statement - Each charitable organization shall, as a part of its registration...
§ 57-59. Enforcement of chapter; seizure of property connected with terrorism; penalties - A. Any person who willfully and knowingly violates or causes...
§ 57-60. Exemptions - A. The following persons shall be exempt from the registration...
§ 57-61. Registration of professional fund-raising counsels and solicitors - A. No person shall act as a professional fund-raising counsel...
§ 57-61.1. Time and effect of registration - A. Registrations by charitable organizations, professional solicitors, and professional fund-raising...
§ 57-61.2. Commercial co-ventures - A. No commercial co-venturer shall conduct any charitable sales promotion...
§ 57-62. Liability imposed by other laws not decreased - Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as making...
§ 57-63. Local ordinances - A. The governing body of any city, town or county...
§ 57-64. Out-of-state enforcement proceedings - Any state of the United States shall have the right...
§ 57-65. Fees and charges - All fees and charges collected by the Commissioner as provided...
§ 57-66. Rules and regulations; model ordinance - The Board shall have the power to make and publish...
§ 57-67. Application to court for relief - Any person aggrieved by any final order of the Commissioner...
§ 57-68. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2015, c. 709, cl. 2.
§ 57-69. Effective date - Notwithstanding any other section of this chapter to the contrary,...