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Chapter 121 - Cemeteries
Chapter 121 - Cemeteries
§ 5300 Statutory purposes
§ 5301 Application of chapter
§ 5302 Definitions
§ 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
§ 5314 Sale of property for interment purposes; disposition of receipts
§ 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
§ 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
§ 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
§ 5377 Proceeds of sale; expenditure
§ 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
§ 5435 Sales of lots, crypts, and niches; how income applied; rules
§ 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
§ 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
§ 5574 Inspection
§ 5575 Use before completion prohibited
§ 5576 Sales before the completion of building; bond
§ 5577 Mausoleum becoming untenable
§ 5578 Perpetual care funds
§ 5579 Penalties