South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 29 - Cemetery Corporations
Section 47-29-21 - Authorization to hold personal property.

47-29-21. Authorization to hold personal property.
A cemetery corporation may hold such personal property as the legitimate and necessary purposes of the corporation may require.

Source: SDC 1939, ยง11.1906; SL 1949, ch 24; SL 1955, ch 16.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 47 - Corporations

Chapter 29 - Cemetery Corporations

Section 47-29-1 - Cemetery corporations authorized--Nonprofit corporation law as applicable.

Section 47-29-2 - Permissible bylaw provisions--General management--Conformity with other corporation law.

Section 47-29-3 - Cemetery lot owners as members of corporation--Vote--Jointly owned lots--Proxy voting.

Section 47-29-4 - Quorum of members--Proxies counted.

Section 47-29-5 - Notice of election of directors--Publication of notice--Time of publication--Notice of other meetings.

Section 47-29-6 - Directors required to be members.

Section 47-29-7 - Grounds previously used for burial--Lot owners as members of corporation.

Section 47-29-8 - Transfer of lot to individual owner for burial--Succession to ownership of lot--Joint owners.

Section 47-29-9 - Failure to inter or care for lot or mausoleum--Resale of lot--Transfer of mausoleum to municipality--Notice required.

Section 47-29-10 - Other laws applicable to nonperpetual care cemeteries.

Section 47-29-11 - Power of corporation to hold real estate--Maximum holdings--Platting and sale of lots.

Section 47-29-12 - Additional holdings of real property--Sale of additional holdings.

Section 47-29-13 - Surveying and platting of cemetery grounds--Recordation--Lot numbering.

Section 47-29-14 - Sale of unplatted and unused ground.

Section 47-29-15 - Sale of platted but unused, unsold and unneeded ground--Determination by governing body of corporation--Confirmation.

Section 47-29-16 - Circuit court petition for confirmation--Contents of petition--Hearing--Notice of hearing--Method of notice--Including multiple tracts in petition.

Section 47-29-17 - Order granting or denying petition--Order as conclusive absent appeal.

Section 47-29-18 - Judgment as vacating plat or survey--Replatting.

Section 47-29-19 - Extension of cemetery boundaries--Purchase of lands--Condemnation of lands--Condemnation laws applicable.

Section 47-29-20 - Improvements on cemetery lands--Prohibited uses.

Section 47-29-21 - Authorization to hold personal property.

Section 47-29-22 - Authorization to establish perpetual fund--Donations--Election of trustees--Bond and accounting of trustees.

Section 47-29-23 - Distribution of proceeds from sale of cemetery lots--Use in care of cemetery--Expenses--Profit prohibited.

Section 47-29-24 - Percentage of proceeds used to pay debts.

Section 47-29-25 - Cemetery property as exempt from taxation and local assessments--Appropriation for state highway purposes of unused lands.

Section 47-29-26 - Validation of previous cemetery lot deeds.