Repealed.
(Apr. 20, 1906, 34 Stat. 123, ch. 1641, § 2; Feb. 22, 1921, 41 Stat. 1144, ch. 70, § 7; June 28, 1944, 58 Stat. 533, ch. 300, § 18; Dec. 4, 1967, 81 Stat. 532, Pub. L. 90-173, § 1; Oct. 19, 2000, D.C. Law 13-172, § 2919(c), 47 DCR 6308.)
1981 Ed., § 27-130.
1973 Ed., § 27-130.
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2919(c) of the Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2000 (D.C. Act 13-438, October 20, 2000, 47 DCR 8740).
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 [Repealed]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 [Repealed]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