Vermont Statutes
Chapter 121 - Cemeteries
§ 5310. Plats

§ 5310. Plats
An agency engaged in any business of a cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium shall cause to be made a plat of its grounds, showing the part thereof improved or in use and that part held for future cemetery use. The plat of the improved part shall show the land laid out in sections, lots, driveways, walks, and paths, sections to be designated by symbols, and the lots shall be numbered. All additions to such improved areas, and all new cemetery grounds hereafter established, shall be platted in the manner provided above. It is further provided that in case of a community mausoleum or columbarium, every agency shall cause to be made a plat thereof on which shall be set forth the sections, halls, rooms, corridors, elevators, or other subdivisions thereof with their descriptive names and numbers. The agency making such plat shall file the same for record in the office of the town clerk of the town in which the cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium is located.

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