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Statutes > Alabama > Title11 > Title2 > 11-47-69Section 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 to any other corporation under such conditions and regulations as in the judgment of the directors of said cemetery corporation will insure the application thereof to the purposes in this section specified; provided further, that before any such transfer of such funds is made said cemetery corporation or association shall have obtained an order authorizing such transfer from the probate court of the county where the cemetery or part thereof abandoned under the provisions of this division is situated. Such order shall be obtained upon petition of said cemetery corporation and any member of said corporation may support or oppose the granting of the order by affidavit or otherwise. Before making the order, proof must be made to the satisfaction of the court that notice of the application for leave to transfer such funds has been given by publication in such manner and for such time as the court has directed and that it is for the best interests of the said cemetery corporation that such transfer be made.
(Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §13.)