Chapter 121 - CEMETERIES (Contains: §§ 5301 – 5579)
- § 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
- § 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 selectmen
- § 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 selectmen
- § 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
- § 5486 - Repealed. 1965, No. 142.
- § 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