Sec. 715.004. CONTENTS OF PETITION. (a) A petition filed by a nonprofit corporation under this chapter must contain a legal description of the real property comprising the historic cemetery and must aver to the court that:
(1) the nonprofit corporation, through its members and incorporators, has a religious, ethnic, historic, or cultural relationship to the cemetery;
(2) the cemetery was established more than 75 years before the date the action was commenced;
(3) a viable organization of plot owners of the cemetery does not exist; and
(4) the cemetery threatens or endangers the public health, safety, comfort, or welfare.
(b) The petition must be accompanied by the written plan described by Section 715.005.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1995.
Structure Texas Statutes
Title 8 - Death and Disposition of the Body
Subtitle C - Cemeteries and Crematories
Chapter 715 - Certain Historic Cemeteries
Section 715.002. Petition of Nonprofit Corporation
Section 715.003. Parties to Action
Section 715.004. Contents of Petition
Section 715.006. Service of Citation
Section 715.009. Nonprofit Corporation
Section 715.010. Organizational Meeting
Section 715.011. Powers and Duties of Nonprofit Corporation; Trust Fund
Section 715.012. Crematory Prohibited
Section 715.013. Adjacent or Contiguous Cemetery