Code of Virginia
Title 57 - Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries
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 Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1995, c. 255.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 Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1989, c. 631.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 Repealed - Repealed by Acts 1998, cc. 708 and 721, effective July...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...