Effective: October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a public cemetery, located on or near a township line, is used by the people of two or more townships for burying purposes, the boards of township trustees of such townships shall jointly take possession thereof, and care for and keep it in repair, as in the case of cemeteries belonging to a township. The board of each township shall levy taxes needed for such cemetery, not to exceed one-fourth per cent in any year. Two or more townships may join in establishing and maintaining a cemetery, and for such purpose the boards shall have the same powers, be governed by the same rules, and proceed in the same manner as provided for municipal corporations and townships uniting for that purpose under sections 759.27 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
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.