It shall be the duty of the owner or owners of any cemetery or cemeteries in the District to divide the area to be used for graves into lots of reasonable size, to be permanently designated by conspicuous marks, so that the position of each may be readily determined, each lot to be duly numbered. A plat of such cemetery showing the area so divided, the division into lots, and the number of each such lot shall be filed in the Office of the Surveyor of said District; the grave spaces hereafter laid out for the burial of persons above 10 years of age to be at least 8 feet by 3 feet, and those for the burial of children under 10 years of age at least 6 feet by 2 feet, or, if preferred by said owner or owners, one-half the measurement of the adult grave space, namely, 4 feet by 3 feet. No coffin shall be buried in said District so that any part thereof is within less than 4 feet of the ordinary level of the ground, unless it contains the body of a child under 12 years of age, when it shall not be less than 3 feet below that level.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1295, 1297, ch. 854, §§ 672, 681.)
1981 Ed., § 27-116.
1973 Ed., § 27-115.
Structure 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
§ 43–111. 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
§ 43–123. Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims
§ 43–124. Crematories; consent of property owners; permit
§ 43–125. Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death
§ 43–128. 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