Vermont Statutes
Chapter 121 - Cemeteries
§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond

§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond
When such funds are not deposited with a bank chartered by the State or a national bank, the custodian or depositary thereof, unless otherwise directed by the terms of the trust or other provisions of this chapter, shall be the treasurer of the agency owning, operating, or controlling the cemetery in which lots or burial spaces are sold, or in which mausoleums or columbariums are located, who shall furnish and file with such agency, at its expense, a good and sufficient bond or bonds with surety or sureties approved by the Probate Division of the Superior Court, indemnifying and securing such agency against loss occasioned by the failure of the treasurer to properly protect, preserve, and administer such funds under his or her control. Such funds shall be invested and the income therefrom expended upon the written orders of the directors or trustees of such agency. (Amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011.)

Structure Vermont Statutes

Vermont Statutes

Title 18 - Health

Chapter 121 - Cemeteries

§ 5300. Statutory purposes

§ 5301. Application of chapter

§ 5302. Definitions [Effective until January 1, 2023]

§ 5302. Definitions [Effective January 1, 2023]

§ 5303. Policy declared

§ 5304. Limitation of powers

§ 5305. Right to make rules and regulations

§ 5306. Perpetual care funds

§ 5307. Rule against perpetuities

§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond

§ 5309. Investment of funds

§ 5310. Plats

§ 5311. Recording of plats

§ 5312. Limitation of sales

§ 5313. Records; burial records open to public

§ 5313. Records; burial records open to public

§ 5314. Sale of property for interment purposes; disposition of receipts

§ 5315. Sale of property for other than burial purposes; disposition of proceeds

§ 5315. Sale of property for other than burial purposes; disposition of proceeds

§ 5316. Encumbrance of cemetery property prohibited

§ 5317. Tax exemptions

§ 5318. Public use of cemetery for other purposes

§ 5319. Disposition of remains of dead

§ 5319. Disposition of remains of dead

§ 5320. Temporary vaults

§ 5321. Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers

§ 5322. Temporary access to cemeteries

§ 5323. Natural burial grounds; exemptions

§ 5361. Appropriations and regulations by towns

§ 5361. Appropriations and regulations by towns

§ 5362. Repair; expense; notice

§ 5363. Penalty

§ 5364. Fences; penalty

§ 5365. Damages for want of fence; liability

§ 5366. Not liable until notified

§ 5367. Duties of selectboard

§ 5368. Exceptions

§ 5369. Removal

§ 5370. Notice; headstones

§ 5371. Town or city to furnish headstone

§ 5372. Appropriation for cemetery associations

§ 5373. Cemetery commissioners

§ 5374. Term

§ 5375. Laying out and improving grounds; burial without charge

§ 5376. Sale of lots; tax exemption

§ 5376. Sale of lots; tax exemption

§ 5377. Proceeds of sale; expenditure

§ 5378. Bylaws and regulations

§ 5378. Bylaws and regulations

§ 5379. Report of cemetery commissioners

§ 5380. Auditors

§ 5381. Transfer of care from commissioners to selectboard

§ 5382. Town trust funds—Acceptance of property

§ 5383. Acceptance of money in trust

§ 5384. Payment to treasurer; record; investment

§ 5385. Accounts; expenditures

§ 5386. Report

§ 5387. Money received prior to 1895

§ 5431. Cemetery associations; corporations

§ 5432. Organization and operation

§ 5433. Authority; powers

§ 5434. Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority

§ 5434. Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority

§ 5435. Sales of lots, crypts, and niches; how income applied; rules

§ 5436. Perpetual care fund

§ 5436. Perpetual care fund

§ 5437. Investment

§ 5438. Cemetery accounts; annual reports

§ 5439. Dissolution of cemetery associations

§ 5440. Merger of cemetery associations

§ 5481. Acquisition of land and property—Purchase or gift

§ 5482. Eminent domain

§ 5483. Acquisition of land by town

§ 5484. Acquisition of gravel by town or association

§ 5485. Appeal to Superior Court

§ 5487. Acquisition of land by cemetery associations generally

§ 5488. Enlargement of cemeteries by associations—Petition to Superior Court to acquire land

§ 5488. Enlargement of cemeteries by associations—Petition to Superior Court to acquire land

§ 5489. Service of petition; appointment of commissioners

§ 5490. Notice; hearing

§ 5491. Survey; damages

§ 5492. Report, filing

§ 5493. Judgment on report; costs

§ 5494. Title to lands taken

§ 5531. Disposal of lot by will; descent; burial rights of husband and wife

§ 5532. Escheat of cemetery lots—Definition

§ 5533. Escheat when owner’s whereabouts unknown

§ 5534. Petition; hearing

§ 5535. Notice; publication

§ 5536. Order

§ 5537. Heirs

§ 5571. Location

§ 5572. Plats

§ 5573. Construction requirements

§ 5575. Use before completion prohibited

§ 5576. Sales before the completion of building; bond

§ 5577. Mausoleum becoming untenable

§ 5578. Perpetual care funds

§ 5579. Penalties