11-47-60
Section 11-47-60 Declaration for abandonment of cemetery and removal of human remains interred therein - Adoption, etc. (a) Any cemetery corporation or association, including religious bodies, owning or controlling any cemetery within this state may, with the consent and approval of the governing body of the city or town in which such cemetery is located or with the consent and approval of the governing body of the county if such cemetery is located outside the limits of an incorporated municipality, by resolution of its board of directors or other governing body, when assented to in writing filed with the secretary by at least three fourths of the lot owners and holders of such corporation or association or ratified and approved by like vote thereof at any regular meeting of the cemetery corporation or association or at a meeting specially called for that purpose, declare for the abandonment in whole or in part of such cemetery as a burial place for the human dead and for the removal...
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11-47-63
Section 11-47-63 Removal and reinterment of remains by corporations, etc., generally; notices. (a) After the completion of the publication, posting and mailing of the "Notice of declaration of abandonment of lands for cemetery purposes and of intention to remove the human bodies interred therein," as provided for in Section 11-47-62, and after the expiration of the period of two months specified in said notice as provided in Section 11-47-61, any cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling any such cemetery shall have power to cause the removal of all human remains interred in any such cemetery or part thereof to be abandoned as a cemetery or burial place for the dead and to cause the reinterment in other cemeteries in this state where burials are permitted or to deposit the said remains in a mausoleum or columbarium erected for that purpose without further notice to any person claiming any interest in said cemetery or part thereof or in...
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11-47-62
Section 11-47-62 Declaration for abandonment of cemetery and removal of human remains interred therein - Publication, posting and mailing of notice. (a) Notice of the said declaration of abandonment and of the proposed removal of the human remains from any such cemetery or part thereof shall be given to all persons interested therein by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or town wherein said cemetery or part thereof is situated or in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county wherein the same is situated if located outside the limits of an incorporated municipality, which publication shall be made once a week for two successive months. (b) Said notice shall be entitled "Notice of declaration of abandonment of lands for cemetery purposes and of intention to remove the human bodies interred therein," and shall specify a date, not less than two months after the first publication of such notice, when the cemetery corporation,...
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11-47-61
Section 11-47-61 Declaration for abandonment of cemetery and removal of human remains interred therein - Specification as to removal of remains after two months. Any resolution or declaration for abandonment and removal duly adopted and made under the provisions of Section 11-47-60 shall specify and declare that at any time after the expiration of two months from and after the first publication of the notice of declaration of abandonment and removal required to be published under the provisions of Section 11-47-62 the human remains then remaining in such cemetery or part thereof will be removed by such cemetery corporation, association, corporation, or other person owning or controlling such cemetery. (Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, ยง2.)...
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11-47-66
Section 11-47-66 Purchase and sale of lands, etc., for reinterment of remains from abandoned cemeteries; reservation of lands in abandoned cemeteries for erection of memorial mausoleum, etc. (a) Whenever any such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling any such cemetery lands from which the bodies interred therein are to be removed in accordance with the provisions of this division shall have purchased or otherwise acquired lands or a mausoleum or columbarium or the possession or use thereof for the purpose of providing a place for the reinterment or depositing of any human remains which may be removed from any such abandoned cemetery or part thereof, such new lands may be surveyed and subdivided into lots and plats and avenues and walks for cemetery purposes, and any such mausoleum or columbarium or any part thereof may be divided into niches, compartments, or receptacles for the receipt of such remains as may be therein deposited....
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11-47-73
Section 11-47-73 Payment of expenses of abandonment and removal by corporations, etc.; disposition of funds of corporation, etc., remaining thereafter. (a) Whenever any cemetery corporation or association shall have resolved upon the abandonment of any cemetery or part thereof and the removal of the human remains therefrom under the provisions of this division, such cemetery corporation or association shall have power to employ any moneys in its treasury to defray the expense of such abandonment and removal, including the expense of purchasing or otherwise providing a suitable place for the interment or depositing of such remains in any other cemetery, mausoleum, or columbarium in this state, including the expenses of disinterment, transportation, and reinterment or the depositing of such remains in such mausoleum or columbarium, the expenses of the removal and disposal of such vaults, monuments, headstones, coping, or other improvements which may remain after the human bodies are...
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11-47-69
Section 11-47-69 Care, etc., of lands, etc., in which remains reinterred. Whenever any cemetery corporation or association having a board of directors or other governing body shall have caused the removal from any cemetery or part thereof owned by it or under its charge or control the human remains therein interred and said cemetery corporation or association shall have funds in its treasury which are not required for other purposes of said corporation, said corporation shall have power to set aside, invest, use, and apply from such unexpended funds such sum as, in the judgment of the directors of said corporation, shall be necessary or expedient to provide for the perpetual or other care or improvement of any lands or mausoleum or columbarium or part thereof in which said remains may be reinterred or deposited; provided, however, that in lieu of itself investing, using or applying said funds for the purposes in this section specified, said cemetery corporation may transfer said funds...
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11-47-71
Section 11-47-71 Sale, etc., of lands in abandoned cemeteries by corporations, etc.; confirmation of sales by probate court. (a) Whenever such a cemetery or part thereof has been abandoned as a cemetery or place of burial for the human dead as provided for in Section 11-47-60 by the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling the same, the parts or portions thereof in which no interments had been made and such parts and portions thereof from which all human remains have been removed may be sold by the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling such cemetery land or may be mortgaged or otherwise pledged as security for any loan or loans made to such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling such cemetery lands. No order of any court shall be required prior to the making of any such sale, mortgage, pledge, or other encumbrance of such lands...
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11-47-65
Section 11-47-65 Voluntary removal of remains by relative or friend of person interred or by owner of plat or lot; affidavit of person removing remains. At any time prior to the removal by said cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling said cemetery lands of the remains of any person buried therein, any relative or friend of said person may voluntarily remove such remains and dispose of the same as he may desire; provided, that the person desiring to cause such removal shall, prior to such removal, deliver to said cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such cemetery an affidavit duly sworn to before an officer qualified to administer oaths stating the name of the person whose remains it is desired to remove and further stating, so far as is known to the affiant, the date of burial of such remains and the names and places of residence of the heirs at law of such deceased person. In the...
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11-47-72
Section 11-47-72 Filing, etc., of declaration as to removal of all remains from abandoned cemetery. After the removal of all human remains interred in any part or the whole of the cemetery lands abandoned as a burial place for the human dead as provided in this division, the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole, or other person owning or controlling such cemetery lands may file for record in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which such lands are situated a written declaration reciting that all human remains have been removed from the part or portion of such lands described in such declaration. Such declaration shall be acknowledged in the manner of the acknowledgment of deeds to real property by the president and secretary or other corresponding officers of such cemetery corporation or association or by the incumbent of any such corporation sole or by the persons owning or controlling such cemetery lands, and thereafter any deed, mortgage, or other...
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