No municipality shall alienate or appropriate any ancient burial place to any use other than that of a burial ground. No portion of any ancient burial place shall be taken for public use without the approval of the General Assembly. If any ancient burial place is appropriated for any other use and the bodies buried therein or the grave markers marking the same are removed, the burial ground authority shall preserve a record of such removal indicating the date of such removal and the site or place to which such removal was made.
(P.A. 84-280, S. 2; P.A. 85-319, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 85-319 inserted “grave marker” in place of “monuments, gravestones or other memorials”.
See Sec. 53a-218 re penalty for interference with cemetery or burial ground.
See Sec. 53a-219 re penalty for unlawful possession or sale of gravestones.