Effective: September 28, 2016
Latest Legislation: House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly
The board of township trustees shall provide for the protection and preservation of cemeteries under its jurisdiction, and shall prohibit interments therein when new grounds have been procured for township cemeteries or burial grounds. Where such old cemeteries are in or near village plats, and the public health is liable to be injured by further interments therein, the board shall institute suits to recover possession thereof, remove trespassers therefrom, and may recover damages for injuries thereto or any part thereof, or to any fence or hedge enclosing them, or to any tomb or monument therein.
The board may enclose cemeteries under its jurisdiction with a substantial fence or hedge, and shall keep any such fence or hedge in good repair. It may re-erect any fallen tombstones, regardless of the cause of the falling, in such cemeteries. The board, as it considers necessary, may purchase, maintain, and improve entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights. The board may levy a tax to meet any costs incurred for these purposes, not to exceed one-half mill in any one year, upon all the taxable property of the township.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Section 517.01 | Acquisition or Appropriation of Land.
Section 517.02 | Public Road to Cemetery.
Section 517.03 | Levy and Taxes for Expenses.
Section 517.04 | Vote on Establishment of Cemetery.
Section 517.05 | Notice of Election - Ballots.
Section 517.06 | Cemetery Plat.
Section 517.07 | Sale of Cemetery Lots.
Section 517.071 | Rules Governing Product of Fetal Death.
Section 517.072 | Reinterment or Disinterment of Product of Fetal Death.
Section 517.073 | Authority for Reentry for Unused Lots or Rights.
Section 517.08 | Expenditure of Proceeds - Exception.
Section 517.09 | No Levy on Lots.
Section 517.10 | Title to Certain Burial Grounds Vested in Board of Township Trustees.
Section 517.11 | Care of Cemetery.
Section 517.12 | Regulating Hours of Access to Cemeteries.
Section 517.13 | Additions to Cemetery Grounds.
Section 517.14 | Public Cemetery on Township Lines - Joint Township Cemetery.
Section 517.15 | Cemetery Endowment Fund.
Section 517.19 | Tax Levy for Buildings Upon Grounds of Cemetery - Bond Issue.
Section 517.20 | Appointment of Directors of Township Cemetery.
Section 517.21 | Abandonment or Discontinuance of Cemetery - Removal of Bodies and Stones.
Section 517.22 | Public Sale of Cemetery.
Section 517.23 | Disinterment of Body Buried in Cemetery.
Section 517.24 | Form of Application for Disinterment.
Section 517.25 | Writ of Mandamus.
Section 517.26 | Removal of Dead.
Section 517.27 | Transfer of Cemeteries to Board of Township Trustees.
Section 517.271 | Transfer of Cemetery Ownership Rights to Most Recent Owner.
Section 517.28 | Abandonment of Cemetery Owned by Municipal Corporation.
Section 517.29 | Neglect of Order by Municipal Corporation Shall Cause Execution Sale.
Section 517.30 | Trustees May Erect Monument Commemorating Members of Armed Forces.