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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. For purposes of this chapter the following words...
Section 1a - Organization of Cemetery Corporations - Section 1A. Five or more persons desirous of procuring, establishing...
Section 1b - Cemetery Corporations; Liability of Directors, Officers or Trustees - Section 1B. A person who serves as director, officer or...
Section 2 - Powers and Duties of Cemetery Corporations - Section 2. (a) Such corporation: (1) shall be subject to...
Section 2a - Cemetery Corporations; Disclosure; Penalty - Section 2A. A cemetery corporation organized under this chapter or...
Section 3 - Cemetery Corporations; Records of Conveyances of Burial Lots - Section 3. Every cemetery corporation created by special charter or...
Section 3a - Cemetery Corporations; Ownership of Unclaimed Graves; Reuse of Occupied Graves - Section 3A. No cemetery corporation created by special charter or...
Section 4 - Cemetery Corporations; Certified Copies of Recorded Deeds and Instruments; Evidence - Section 4. The secretary or clerk of such corporation may...
Section 5 - Cemetery Corporations; Trust Funds - Section 5. Such corporation may hold funds in trust and...
Section 5a - Cemetery Corporations; Burials; Designated Funeral Director - Section 5a. No such cemetery corporation shall deny the right...
Section 5b - Cemetery Corporations; Notification of Certain Options for Burial Services; Penalty - Section 5b. Each such cemetery corporation shall notify, or cause...
Section 5c - Cemetery Corporations; Fiduciary Duty Owed to Contributors to Trust Fund - Section 5c. The corporation and its officers shall owe a...
Section 6 - Cemetery Corporations; Cremation - Section 6. Such corporation may cremate bodies of the dead,...
Section 7 - Formation and Organization of Crematory Corporations - Section 7. Five or more persons may form a corporation,...
Section 8 - Crematory Corporations; Acquisition and Holding of Land in Fee - Section 8. Such corporation may acquire and hold in fee,...
Section 9 - By-Laws and Regulations of Cemetery and Crematory Corporations; Conduct of Business; Violations - Section 9. Cemetery and crematory corporations may, subject to the...
Section 10 - Town Burial Places - Section 10. Each town shall provide one or more suitable...
Section 10a - Municipality Ownership of Unclaimed Graves; Reuse of Occupied Graves - Section 10A. No municipality shall take over the ownership of...
Section 11 - Public Cemeteries; Taking of Land for Burial Purposes; Application to County Commissioners - Section 11. If there is necessity for a new cemetery...
Section 12 - Public Cemeteries; Taking of Land for Burial Places; Hearing Notice - Section 12. The commissioners shall appoint a time and place...
Section 13 - Public Cemeteries; Adjudication by Commissioners; Taking - Section 13. The commissioners shall hear the parties at the...
Section 14 - Public Cemeteries; Compensation of Commissioners Acting Under Petition to Take Land for Burial Place - Section 14. Each commissioner shall be paid by the town...
Section 15 - Appropriation for Enclosing and Improving Public Cemetery; Sale or Conveyance of Burial Rights; Disposition of Proceeds - Section 15. Towns may appropriate money for enclosing any cemetery...
Section 16 - Appropriation for and Care of Public Cemeteries - Section 16. Any town may annually appropriate and raise by...
Section 17 - Preservation of Ancient Burial Places - Section 17. A town shall not alienate or appropriate to...
Section 18 - Care of Neglected Burial Places Within Limits of Town - Section 18. Any town having within its limits an abandoned...
Section 19 - Deposits for Care and Improvement of Burial Places or Lots; Records; Investment of Deposits - Section 19. A city or town may receive, hold and...
Section 20 - Public Cemeteries; Depositing Funds With State Treasurer; Copy of Instrument; Notice to Town or City Clerk - Section 20. Money declared by written instrument to be intended...
Section 21 - Public Cemeteries; Investment of Funds; Interest - Section 21. The state treasurer shall invest such money in...
Section 22 - Town Board of Cemetery Commissioners; Election of Members - Section 22. A town which accepts this and the four...
Section 23 - Board of Cemetery Commissioners; Powers and Duties - Section 23. Said board shall have the sole care, superintendence...
Section 24 - Board of Cemetery Commissioners; Conveyance of Burial Lots; Record; Fee - Section 24. Said board may, by deed made and executed...
Section 25 - Board of Cemetery Commissioners; Gifts or Bequests for Cemeteries; Investment of Funds; Disposition of Proceeds of Sales of Lots or Burial Rights - Section 25. A town in which cemetery commissioners are chosen...
Section 26 - Board of Cemetery Commissioners; Limit of Debts or Liabilities; Annual Report - Section 26. Said board shall not incur debts or liabilities...
Section 27 - Appointment of Board of Cemetery Commissioners; Powers and Duties - Section 27. If a town so votes under section twenty-one...
Section 28 - Conveyance of Cemetery Lots or Interest in Lots in Trust for Preservation as Memorial; Rights of Heirs of Owner; Control Over Lot or Interest in Lot - Section 28. The owner of any right, title or interest...
Section 29 - Indivisible Character of Cemetery Lots; Vesting; Limitations and Conditions; Right of Interment; Designation of Representation of Lot; Record - Section 29. Lots in cemeteries incorporated under section one, tombs...
Section 30 - Hearing as to Representation of Cemetery Lot or Tomb - Section 30. Before entering of record the name of any...
Section 31 - Descent of Family Cemetery Lot to Heirs - Section 31. If in a will no express disposition or...
Section 32 - Right of Person to Interment; Release - Section 32. A person shall be entitled to a right...
Section 33 - Right of Husband to Interment - Section 33. A husband shall have the same rights in...
Section 34 - Use of Land for Burial; New Cemeteries or Extensions; Approval of Board of Health; Description of Land - Section 34. Except in the case of the erection or...
Section 35 - Lands to Be Used for Burial; Approval - Section 35. No land other than that so used and...
Section 36 - Use of Cemeteries; Appeal From Order of Board of Health; Hearing - Section 36. Any person, including those persons in control of...
Section 37 - Use of Cemeteries; Regulations by Local Boards of Health; Notice - Section 37. Boards of health may make regulations concerning burial...
Section 38 - Closing of Tombs, Burial Ground or Cemetery; Hearing; Notice - Section 38. Before a tomb, burial ground or cemetery is...
Section 39 - Owner of Tomb; Appeal From Order of Board of Health - Section 39. The owner of a tomb aggrieved by an...
Section 40 - Use of Cemeteries; Jury Trial; Rescission of Order; Costs and Double Costs - Section 40. Appeals shall be tried before a jury, and...
Section 41 - Laying Out or Constructing Public Ways In, Upon or Through Burial Places; Authority - Section 41. A public way shall not be laid out...
Section 42 - Passage Through Cemeteries - Section 42. Whoever uses as a means of passage from...
Section 42a - Visitation Hours of Cemeteries - Section 42A. No cemetery exempted from taxation under the provisions...
Section 42b - Commercial Use of Cemeteries; Consent; Penalties - Section 42B. No person shall use the premises of a...
Section 43 - Buildings Upon Burial Places - Section 43. No building shall be erected upon any burial...
Section 43a - Ownership, Maintenance and Operation of Cemeteries; Private Profit - Section 43A. No cemetery established on or after July first,...
Section 43b - Sale of Cemetery Lots and Plots for Speculative Purposes - Section 43B. The sale of cemetery lots and plots, or...
Section 43c - Disposition of Proceeds of Sales of Cemetery Lots and Plots; Liquidation of Indebtedness - Section 43C. The proceeds of the sales of lots and...
Section 43d - Location of Community Mausoleums; Exceptions - Section 43D. Every community mausoleum, other than a structure containing...
Section 43e - New Community Mausoleums; Plans and Specifications; Approval; Construction - Section 43E. No community mausoleum, the crypts of which are...
Section 43f - Community Mausoleums; Construction; Supervision - Section 43F. The department of environmental protection shall have supervisory...
Section 43g - Use of Community Mausoleum Prior to Completion; Care and Improvement Fund - Section 43G. No community mausoleum, crypt or structure erected as...
Section 43h - Sale of Community Mausoleum Prior to Completion - Section 43H. No crypt in a community mausoleum shall be...
Section 43i - Removal of Bodies Constituting Menace to Public Health - Section 43I. Whenever any mausoleum, vault, crypt or other structure...
Section 43j - Permanent Care and Improvement Fund for Community Mausoleums - Section 43J. Every cemetery association or other agency establishing, maintaining...
Section 43k - Custodian of Fund; Administration and Investment - Section 43K. The treasurer of the cemetery in which such...
Section 43l - Abating or Enjoining Nuisance - Section 43L. Any cemetery, community mausoleum or columbarium established, maintained...
Section 43m - Permanent Disposition of Dead Bodies or Remains - Section 43M. Except as otherwise provided by law, or in...
Section 43n - Penalties; Violations of This Chapter - Section 43N. Whoever fails to comply with or violates any...
Section 43o - Sale of Monuments for Cemetery Lots by Cemetery Corporations - Section 43O. The following corporations owning or operating cemeteries shall...
Section 44 - Cremation of Bodies - [See Order of the Commissioner of Public Health, dated March...
Section 44a - Receptacles for Cremated Remains; Caskets - Section 44A. The body of a deceased person to be...
Section 45 - Burial Permits; Permits for Removal of Bodies; Certificates of Death; Deceased Veterans - Section 45. Except as provided in sections forty-four and forty-six,...
Section 45a - Funeral Director's Name Used in Connection With Death Certificate or Burial Permit - Section 45A. No funeral director, whether doing business as an...
Section 46 - Permit for Burial of Bodies Brought Into Commonwealth; Certificate; Recording - Section 46. Whenever a dead body is brought into the...
Section 46a - Veterans; Burial; Affidavit; Veteran Graves Officer - Section 46A. No permit for the burial or other disposition...
Section 47 - Certificates for Burial, Removal or Cremation; Indorsement of Coupon Accompanying Permit; Record - Section 47. No person having the care of a cemetery,...
Section 48 - Cremation; Certificates for Burial - Section 48. An undertaker shall not bury the ashes of...
Section 49 - Licensing of Funeral Directors; Revocation or Suspension; Hearing; Fees; Permits - Section 49. The board of health of each town shall...
Section 50 - Penalty; Violations of Secs. 44 to 48 - Section 50. Violations of any of the provisions of sections...
Section 51 - Embalming Fluid - Section 51. No person shall sell, offer for sale, or...