Effective: November 24, 1995
Latest Legislation: House Bill 328 - 121st General Assembly
If the board of township trustees, the trustees or board of a cemetery association, or the other officers in charge of a cemetery refuse to disinter or grant permission for disinterment after a surviving spouse makes application under sections 517.23 and 517.24 of the Revised Code, the probate court of the county in which the decedent is buried shall issue a writ of mandamus requiring the officers to disinter the remains or to grant permission for their disinterment.
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.