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Title 43 - Cemeteries and C...
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Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory P...
Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions.
§ 43–101. Incorporation; powers.
§ 43–102. Powers to acquire and sell land.
§ 43–103. Burial ground to be platted and surveyed.
§ 43–104. Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment.
§ 43–105. Duty to inclose and underdrain.
§ 43–106. Application of proceeds of sales of lots.
§ 43–107. Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers.
§ 43–108. Election of officers.
§ 43–109. Lot owners are voting members of corporation.
§ 43–110. Bylaws.
§ 43–111. Exemption from taxation and sale on execution.
§ 43–112. Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity.
§ 43–113. Grants and bequests for care of lots.
§ 43–114. Distance from City and from dwellings.
§ 43–115. Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes.
§ 43–116. Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves.
§ 43–117. Register of burials; contents.
§ 43–118. Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Health.
§ 43–119. Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body.
§ 43–120. Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies.
§ 43–121. Place of burial.
§ 43–122. Mode of burial.
§ 43–123. Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims.
§ 43–124. Crematories; consent of property owners; permit.
§ 43–125. Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death.
§ 43–126. Penalty.
§ 43–127. Prosecutions.
§ 43–128. Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected.
§ 43–129. Cremation required in certain cases. [Repealed]
§ 43–130. Public crematory established. [Repealed]
§ 43–131. Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law.