Effective: October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
When a municipal corporation holds land within its limits which has been used as a cemetery or burial ground, in which land interments have been prohibited by the municipal corporation, and it has been decided to remove the bodies interred therein, the legislative authority thereof may sell or otherwise dispose of such land, but the sale or transfer does not give the purchaser possession until the bodies therein interred have been removed, and all monuments and tombstones are removed and re-erected at the place of reinterment of the remains of each person.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 7 | Municipal Corporations
Section 759.01 | Cemeteries and Crematories.
Section 759.02 | Cemeteries Outside Corporate Limits.
Section 759.03 | Powers of Legislative Authority as to Cemeteries.
Section 759.04 | Power to Sell Portions of Cemetery.
Section 759.05 | Burials Prohibited Within Municipal Corporation.
Section 759.06 | Bond of Officer to Secure Cemetery Funds.
Section 759.07 | Conveyance of Lands Abandoned for Cemetery Purposes.
Section 759.08 | Title Vested in Municipal Corporation.
Section 759.09 | Duties of Director of Public Service.
Section 759.10 | Institution of Suits.
Section 759.11 | Bylaws and Regulations.
Section 759.12 | City May Accept and Maintain Permanent Fund for Care of Lots in Cemeteries.
Section 759.13 | Price of Lots and Terms of Payment.
Section 759.14 | Sale of Lots - Laying Off and Embellishing of Grounds - Donations.
Section 759.15 | Funds of Cemeteries to Be Deposited - Investment - Payments.
Section 759.16 | Appointment of Clerk.
Section 759.17 | Annual and Quarterly Report to Legislative Authority.
Section 759.18 | Enlargement of Grounds.
Section 759.19 | Transfer of Village Cemetery - Powers and Duties of Township Trustees.
Section 759.20 | Board of Cemetery Trustees.
Section 759.23 | Organization of Board of Trustees for Village Cemeteries.
Section 759.25 | Villages May Tax for Funeral Coach or Vault on Vote of Electors.
Section 759.26 | Form of Ballot.
Section 759.27 | Union of Municipal Corporations and Townships for Cemetery Purposes.
Section 759.28 | Appropriation of Land for Cemetery Purposes.
Section 759.29 | Titles Vested.
Section 759.30 | Apportionment of Expense.
Section 759.31 | Control and Management - Compensation.
Section 759.32 | Power to Enforce Ordinances.
Section 759.33 | Discrimination Forbidden.
Section 759.34 | Joint Meeting.
Section 759.341 | Union Cemetery District.
Section 759.35 | Joint Meetings to Make Rules.
Section 759.36 | Board of Cemetery Trustees - Clerk-Treasurer.
Section 759.37 | Vote and Record of Joint Meetings.
Section 759.38 | Adjoining Townships Admitted to Participation.
Section 759.39 | Municipal Corporation or Township May Withdraw.
Section 759.40 | Public Burial Ground May Be Appropriated.
Section 759.41 | Purchase of Lands - Improvements.
Section 759.43 | Rights and Titles Inviolate.
Section 759.44 | Clerk Shall Record Plat of Ground.
Section 759.45 | Acquisition of Cemetery Approach.
Section 759.47 | Sale of Old Approach.
Section 759.48 | Appropriation of Property.
Section 759.49 | Rules Governing Product of Fetal Death.
Section 759.491 | Reinterment or Disinterment of Product of Fetal Death.