Ohio Revised Code
Chapter 517 | Cemeteries
Section 517.31 | Care of Monument.

Effective: April 16, 1993
Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 125 - 119th General Assembly
In any township in which the board of township trustees has erected a memorial monument as provided by section 517.30 of the Revised Code, or in which the citizens thereof have erected such a monument, either upon the public grounds of such township or upon grounds therein donated or procured by the citizens for such use, and have caused such grounds to be enclosed, the board may take charge of such monument, grounds, and enclosure, and keep them in repair. For such purpose the board may appropriate and expend such sum of money as required from the township funds.

Structure Ohio Revised Code

Ohio Revised Code

Title 5 | Townships

Chapter 517 | Cemeteries

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.

Section 517.31 | Care of Monument.

Section 517.32 | Enclosure of Abandoned Cemetery.