District of Columbia Code
Title 43 - Cemeteries and Crematories
Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions

§ 43–101. Incorporation; powers - When 5 or more persons shall associate themselves together for...

§ 43–102. Powers to acquire and sell land - Such persons so associated shall have power to acquire by...

§ 43–103. Burial ground to be platted and surveyed - They shall cause the land designed as a burial ground...

§ 43–104. Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment - Such association shall have power to inclose and ornament their...

§ 43–105. Duty to inclose and underdrain - It shall be the duty of the owner or owners...

§ 43–106. Application of proceeds of sales of lots - The proceeds arising from the sale of lots, after deducting...

§ 43–107. Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers - The officers of any such corporation shall be a president,...

§ 43–108. Election of officers - The first election of officers by the persons associating, according...

§ 43–109. Lot owners are voting members of corporation - At each subsequent election of officers of any such corporation...

§ 43–110. Bylaws - Each corporation shall have power to establish and change bylaws...

§ 43–111. Exemption from taxation and sale on execution - The property of any such corporation, its grounds, lots, and...

§ 43–112. Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity - Any person desiring to dedicate any lot of land, not...

§ 43–113. Grants and bequests for care of lots - It shall be lawful for such association to take and...

§ 43–114. Distance from City and from dwellings - No person or persons or cemetery association shall lay out...

§ 43–115. Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes - Without regard to the provisions of § 43-114, the Mayor...

§ 43–116. Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves - It shall be the duty of the owner or owners...

§ 43–117. Register of burials; contents - It shall be the duty of the owner or owners...

§ 43–118. Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Health - It shall be the duty of the superintendent or person...

§ 43–119. Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body - The Council of the District of Columbia may, by act,...

§ 43–120. Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies - No dead body or part thereof shall be kept in...

§ 43–121. Place of burial - No person shall bury or cause to be buried within...

§ 43–122. Mode of burial - No body shall be buried in said District in any...

§ 43–123. Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims - No grave in said District shall be reopened, except for...

§ 43–124. Crematories; consent of property owners; permit - No person shall, in the District of Columbia, build or...

§ 43–125. Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death - It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to...

§ 43–126. Penalty - Any person who shall violate or aid and abet in...

§ 43–127. Prosecutions - Prosecutions hereunder shall be in the Superior Court of the...

§ 43–128. Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected - Sections 43-101 to 43-114 , 43-116 to 43-118 , and...

§ 43–129. Cremation required in certain cases. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Apr. 20, 1906, 34 Stat. 123, ch. 1641, §...

§ 43–130. Public crematory established. [Repealed] - Repealed. (Apr. 20, 1906, 34 Stat. 123, ch. 1641, §...

§ 43–131. Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law - Nothing in §§ 43-129 to 43-131 shall be construed as...