District of Columbia Code
Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions
§ 43–127. Prosecutions

Prosecutions hereunder shall be in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, in the name of said District; provided, that any person or persons so tried shall have the privilege, when demanded, of a trial by jury, as in other jury cases in said Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1298, ch. 854, § 685; Apr. 1, 1942, 56 Stat. 190, ch. 207, § 1; July 8, 1963, 77 Stat. 77, Pub. L. 88-60, § 1; July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 570, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 155(a).)
1981 Ed., § 27-127.
1973 Ed., § 27-127.

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 [Repealed]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 [Repealed]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