District of Columbia Code
Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions
§ 43–107. Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers

The officers of any such corporation shall be a president, a treasurer (who shall act as a secretary), and not less than 3 directors, who shall be severally chosen annually by ballot, and shall hold office until their successors are chosen. Any neglect to choose officers on the day fixed upon for that purpose shall not operate as a forfeiture of the act of incorporation, in accordance with the provisions of §§ 43-101 to 43-114, 43-116 to 43-118, 43-119 to 43-128.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1294, ch. 854, § 663.)
1981 Ed., § 27-107.
1973 Ed., § 27-107.

Structure District of Columbia Code

District of Columbia Code

Title 43 - Cemeteries and Crematories

Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions

§ 43–101. Incorporation; powers

§ 43–102. Powers to acquire and sell land

§ 43–103. Burial ground to be platted and surveyed

§ 43–104. Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment

§ 43–105. Duty to inclose and underdrain

§ 43–106. Application of proceeds of sales of lots

§ 43–107. Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers

§ 43–108. Election of officers

§ 43–109. Lot owners are voting members of corporation

§ 43–110. Bylaws

§ 43–111. Exemption from taxation and sale on execution

§ 43–112. Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity

§ 43–113. Grants and bequests for care of lots

§ 43–114. Distance from City and from dwellings

§ 43–115. Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes

§ 43–116. Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves

§ 43–117. Register of burials; contents

§ 43–118. Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Health

§ 43–119. Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body

§ 43–120. Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies

§ 43–121. Place of burial

§ 43–122. Mode of burial

§ 43–123. Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims

§ 43–124. Crematories; consent of property owners; permit

§ 43–125. Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death

§ 43–126. Penalty

§ 43–127. Prosecutions

§ 43–128. Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected

§ 43–129. Cremation required in certain cases. [Repealed]

§ 43–130. Public crematory established. [Repealed]

§ 43–131. Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law