Effective: September 29, 2015
Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly
A board of township trustees may create a permanent cemetery endowment fund for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and beautifying township cemeteries and burial lots in township cemeteries. The fund shall consist of money arising from the following sources:
(A) Gifts, devises, or bequests received for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying township cemeteries;
(B) Charges added to the price regularly charged for burial lots for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying township cemeteries;
(C) Contributions of money from the township general fund;
(D) An individual agreement with the purchaser of a burial lot providing that a part of the purchase price is to be applied to the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying any burial lot designated and named by the purchaser;
(E) Individual gifts, devises, or bequests made for the maintenance, improvement, and beautification of any burial lot designated and named by the person making the gift, devise, or bequest.
Upon unanimous consent of the board of trustees, the board may use the principal of the fund if the board is unable to maintain, improve, and beautify township cemeteries using only the income from the fund.
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.