Vermont Statutes
Chapter 121 - Cemeteries
§ 5370. Notice; headstones

§ 5370. Notice; headstones
When remains of the dead are removed, the selectboard, if necessary, shall cause suitable headstones or monuments to be erected to the memory of the deceased, or to designate the place of interment. Such remains shall not be so removed if there are known kindred of the deceased residing in the State, until after 30 days’ notice of the intention so to do. When kindred do not reside in the State, and known kindred reside without the State, then the remains shall not be so removed, until after 60 days’ notice to one of such kindred. Such notice shall be given personally or by registered mail.

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