Connecticut General Statutes
Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368j - Cemeteries

Section 19a-295. (Formerly Sec. 19-146). - Ownership and management of burial grounds. Town appropriations. - Towns and ecclesiastical societies may procure and hold lands for...

Section 19a-296. (Formerly Sec. 19-147). - Cemetery associations. - (a) Cemetery associations shall be organized in accordance with the...

Section 19a-297. (Formerly Sec. 19-148). - Bylaws. Sexton. - The selectmen of towns, cemetery associations or ecclesiastical societies, having...

Section 19a-298. (Formerly Sec. 19-149). - Cemetery associations with capital stock organized prior to 1855. - Cemetery associations having capital stock and organized under the general...

Section 19a-299. (Formerly Sec. 19-150). - Trust funds for care of cemeteries. - Towns, ecclesiastical societies and cemetery associations may receive and hold...

Section 19a-300. (Formerly Sec. 19-151). - Funds for care of cemetery lots. - Money declared by an instrument in writing to be intended...

Section 19a-301. (Formerly Sec. 19-152). - Establishment and management of perpetual funds. Accounting. - (a) Any cemetery association, organized as provided by law, may,...

Section 19a-302. (Formerly Sec. 19-153). - Takeover of fund. Appointment of cemetery committee. - If at any time such association fails to comply with...

Section 19a-303. (Formerly Sec. 19-154). - Acceptance of legacy. - Any town or ecclesiastical society, at any meeting warned and...

Section 19a-304. (Formerly Sec. 19-155). - Care of funds by towns. - Such a donation, when received by a town, shall, unless...

Section 19a-305. (Formerly Sec. 19-156). - Probate Court may make allowance for care of lot. - The Court of Probate may allow, out of the estate...

Section 19a-306. (Formerly Sec. 19-157). - Cemeteries in adjoining towns. - When any cemetery association or ecclesiastical society owns or manages...

Section 19a-307. (Formerly Sec. 19-158). - Sale of abandoned or unused lots. - Any town or any mutual nonstock cemetery association or corporation...

Section 19a-308. (Formerly Sec. 19-159). - Care of neglected cemeteries. Civil and criminal liability for undertaking care and maintenance. - (a) In any town in which there is a burial...

Section 19a-308a. - Abandoned cemeteries. Acquisition by municipality. Notice requirements. Objections. Vesting of title with municipality. - (a) As used in this section, “abandoned cemetery” means a...

Section 19a-308b. - Neglected cemetery account. - (a) There is established an account to be known as...

Section 19a-309. (Formerly Sec. 19-160). - Headstones at soldiers' graves. - No cemetery association shall make or enforce any bylaw, order...

Section 19a-310. (Formerly Sec. 19-161). - Approval of vaults above ground by Department of Public Health. Fees. - No person shall construct any vault, crypt, columbarium or mausoleum...

Section 19a-311. (Formerly Sec. 19-162). - Inspection. Burial prohibited until certificate obtained. - Such structure shall be erected under the supervision of an...

Section 19a-312. (Formerly Sec. 19-163). - Mausoleums and columbariums. Maintenance. Court order re removal of body for interment. Public nuisance. - (a) There shall be established and maintained a fund for...

Section 19a-313. (Formerly Sec. 19-161a). - Burials above ground restricted. - No person shall be buried, interred or entombed in any...

Section 19a-314. (Formerly Sec. 19-164). - Penalty. - Any officer, manager or agent of any corporation or association,...

Section 19a-314a. - Disclosure of dispute resolution procedure relating to the sale of any item or service by a town, ecclesiastical society or cemetery association which owns, manages or controls a cemetery. “Cemetery” defined. - (a) As used in this section, “cemetery” means any place...

Section 19a-315. - “Ancient burial place”, “burial ground authority” and “grave marker” defined. - For purposes of sections 19a-315 to 19a-315c, inclusive: (1) “Ancient...

Section 19a-315a. - Use of ancient burial place. - No municipality shall alienate or appropriate any ancient burial place...

Section 19a-315b. - Protection of grave markers. - No grave marker within any cemetery or burial place shall...

Section 19a-315c. - Maintenance of burial places. - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 19a-315b, a burial ground...

Section 19a-315d. - Places and manner of burial. Exceptions. Penalty. - (a) No person shall bury the body of any deceased...