§ 5438. Cemetery accounts; annual reports
(a) A cemetery association shall keep and maintain adequate and correct accounts of its business transactions, which at all reasonable times shall be open to the inspection of every member of such corporation. It shall keep separate and apart from its other funds all monies and property received by it for the perpetual care of the cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium which is owned by it or for the lots therein, and it shall keep accurate accounts of such perpetual care funds separate and apart from its accounts of other funds.
(b) The treasurer of such corporation shall make, sign, and file at the annual meeting a report countersigned by the president, concerning the affairs of the corporation and the perpetual care funds, which report shall contain, among other things, a statement as to the amount of the treasurer’s bond and a true statement of the total amount of the fund or funds received and set apart for the perpetual care of the lots, cemetery, community mausoleum, and columbarium. Such report shall contain a list of the securities in which such fund or funds are invested, the income received therefrom, all disbursements from such income, and the balance of money or property held and on hand in such fund or funds, and copies thereof shall forthwith be filed with the town clerk of the town and with the Probate Division of the Superior Court for the district wherein the cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium is situated. (Amended 2009, No. 154 (Adj. Sess.), § 238a, eff. Feb. 1, 2011.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
§ 5301. Application of chapter
§ 5302. Definitions [Effective until January 1, 2023]
§ 5302. Definitions [Effective January 1, 2023]
§ 5305. Right to make rules and regulations
§ 5307. Rule against perpetuities
§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond
§ 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
§ 5318. Public use of cemetery for other purposes
§ 5319. Disposition of remains of dead
§ 5319. Disposition of remains of dead
§ 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
§ 5365. Damages for want of fence; liability
§ 5366. Not liable until notified
§ 5371. Town or city to furnish headstone
§ 5372. Appropriation for cemetery associations
§ 5373. Cemetery commissioners
§ 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
§ 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
§ 5387. Money received prior to 1895
§ 5431. Cemetery associations; corporations
§ 5432. Organization and operation
§ 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
§ 5438. Cemetery accounts; annual reports
§ 5439. Dissolution of cemetery associations
§ 5440. Merger of cemetery associations
§ 5481. Acquisition of land and property—Purchase or gift
§ 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
§ 5493. Judgment on report; costs
§ 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
§ 5573. Construction requirements
§ 5575. Use before completion prohibited
§ 5576. Sales before the completion of building; bond