Sec. 715.013. ADJACENT OR CONTIGUOUS CEMETERY. A nonprofit corporation authorized to restore, operate, and maintain a historic cemetery may not acquire land for cemetery purposes that is adjacent or contiguous to the cemetery unless the adjacent or contiguous land is operated as a perpetual care cemetery under Chapter 712. The nonprofit corporation may not petition the district court of the county in which the cemetery is located to remove the dedication with respect to all or any portion of the cemetery.
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