§ 30-25-5. Place of burial — Disinterment from pauper cemetery.
Any interment provided for by the provisions of this chapter shall not be made in any cemetery or plot used exclusively for the pauper dead; and if any deceased honorably discharged soldier, sailor, airperson, or marine may have already died and been buried in any place used exclusively for the burial of paupers, he or she shall be removed therefrom as soon as may be after the attention of the town or city council, within whose limits the person may have been buried, shall have been called thereto.
History of Section.P.L. 1904, ch. 1154, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 105, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 117, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 655, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 30-25-5.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 30 - Military Affairs and Defense
Chapter 30-25 - Burial of Veterans
Section 30-25-1. - Firing squad for funerals.
Section 30-25-2. - Appropriations for firing squads.
Section 30-25-3. - Burial at public expense.
Section 30-25-5. - Place of burial — Disinterment from pauper cemetery.
Section 30-25-7. - Veterans dying in state institutions.
Section 30-25-8. - Maintenance of north cemetery.
Section 30-25-9. - Expenses of north cemetery.
Section 30-25-10. - Care of neglected graves.
Section 30-25-11. - Consent of custodian of neglected grave.
Section 30-25-12. - Appropriations for care of graves.
Section 30-25-13. - Acceptance and administration of gifts.
Section 30-25-14. - Rhode Island veterans’ memorial cemetery.