Chapter 214 - Cemeteries
- Section 214.010 Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries — authority to regulate — penalties.
- Section 214.020 City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund — receive gifts — limitation on use of income from fund.
- Section 214.030 Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.
- Section 214.035 Conveyance of cemetery property to political subdivision, when — notice of transfer.
- Section 214.040 Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where — requirements.
- Section 214.041 Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery — exceptions.
- Section 214.050 Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.
- Section 214.060 Petition to be presented to county commission — remonstrance may be filed.
- Section 214.070 Terms defined.
- Section 214.080 Proceedings to enlarge.
- Section 214.090 Family burying grounds, how secured.
- Section 214.120 Costs, who liable for.
- Section 214.130 County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.
- Section 214.131 Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined.
- Section 214.132 Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court's power to disinter.
- Section 214.140 Property placed in trust for benefit of cemeteries.
- Section 214.150 County commissions shall become trustees and custodians.
- Section 214.160 Investment or lending of trust funds — investment manager, duties — definitions.
- Section 214.170 May designate responsible organization or individual to administer the income.
- Section 214.180 Shall keep record of receipts and disbursements.
- Section 214.190 Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition — exception.
- Section 214.200 Title, how obtained to lands used for burial purposes.
- Section 214.205 Violation of nuisance ordinance — abandonment — action authorized — costs — eminent domain.
- Section 214.208 Disinterment authorized, when — consent required, when — cemetery owner not liable, when.
- Section 214.209 Abandonment of burial site, rights revert to cemetery.
- Section 214.210 Certain cities may accept or acquire cemetery lands.
- Section 214.220 Lands or shares subject to all vested rights.
- Section 214.230 City may acquire money or funds, how.
- Section 214.240 City may provide and enforce rules and regulations.
- Section 214.250 Proceedings to establish cemetery in first class counties — petition by taxpayers.
- Section 214.260 Penalty for violation.
- Section 214.270 Definitions.
- Section 214.275 License, cemeteries — division's powers and duties — limitations.
- Section 214.276 Refusal to issue license — notice — hearing.
- Section 214.277 Injunctions, restraining orders, other court remedies available — venue.
- Section 214.280 Election to operate as endowed care cemetery filing with division of registration, form — fee — deposit of fee — division's powers and duties — rules authorized.
- Section 214.282 Voidability of contracts, exceptions.
- Section 214.283 Notification of burial lands — registry of cemeteries to be kept by division — fee may be charged for copies — surveyor locating unregistered cemetery to file with division, form.
- Section 214.300 Nonendowed cemetery may qualify as endowed, when — minimum care and maintenance fund to be established.
- Section 214.310 Endowed care and maintenance fund, minimum amount — bond — posting of sign, when, information required.
- Section 214.320 Deposits in fund required, amount — annual report, form furnished by division — audits may be conducted, when — exemption from chapter 436 requirements, when.
- Section 214.325 Required deposits — deficiency — effect — penalty.
- Section 214.330 Endowed care fund held in trust or segregated account — requirements — duties of trustee or independent investment advisor — operator's duties — endowed care fund agreement.
- Section 214.335 Contributions to endowed care fund for memorial or monument — deficiency, effect of.
- Section 214.340 Report required — content — oath — filing required.
- Section 214.345 Sale of cemetery plot — written statement to be given to purchaser — copy of annual report to be available to public.
- Section 214.360 Private use of trust funds prohibited.
- Section 214.363 Bankruptcy, assignment for benefit of creditors, endowed care fund exempt.
- Section 214.365 Cemetery failing to provide maintenance — abandonment or ceasing to operate, division's duties.
- Section 214.367 Sale of assets, notice required — prospective purchaser of endowed care cemetery, right to recent audit — right to continue operation, notification by division.
- Section 214.370 Nonendowed cemetery to post signs and give notice of its character.
- Section 214.380 Nonendowed section of endowed care cemetery — signs and notice.
- Section 214.385 Moving of grave marker, replacement — delivery of item of burial merchandise.
- Section 214.387 Burial merchandise or services, deferral of delivery, when — escrow arrangement — distribution of moneys — cancellation.
- Section 214.389 Suspension of distribution, when, procedure.
- Section 214.390 Existing cemeteries to operate under law — local law applicable.
- Section 214.392 Division of professional registration, duties and powers in regulation of cemeteries — rulemaking authority.
- Section 214.400 Citation of law.
- Section 214.410 Violation of law, penalty.
- Section 214.450 Indian cemeteries, how established — trust fund authorized.
- Section 214.455 Destruction or defacing any cemetery property, penalty.
- Section 214.500 Cemeteries acquired by a city at tax sales or as nuisances may be sold.
- Section 214.504 No liability for new cemetery operators, when — rights of holders of contracts for burial.
- Section 214.508 Previous cemetery owner liable, when.
- Section 214.512 New cemetery owner not liable for deficiencies, exception.
- Section 214.516 Registration as an endowed care cemetery, when — compliance with endowed care cemetery law required.
- Section 214.550 Scatter gardens, operation by churches maintaining religious cemeteries — maintenance of garden and records, duty of operator.
