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Section
214.010
Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries — authority to regulate — penalties.
Section
214.020
City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund — receive gifts — limitation on use of income from fund.
Section
214.030
Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.
Section
214.035
Conveyance of cemetery property to political subdivision, when — notice of transfer.
Section
214.040
Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where — requirements.
Section
214.041
Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery — exceptions.
Section
214.050
Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.
Section
214.060
Petition to be presented to county commission — remonstrance may be filed.
Section
214.070
Terms defined.
Section
214.080
Proceedings to enlarge.
Section
214.090
Family burying grounds, how secured.
Section
214.120
Costs, who liable for.
Section
214.130
County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.
Section
214.131
Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined.
Section
214.132
Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court's power to disinter.
Section
214.140
Property placed in trust for benefit of cemeteries.
Section
214.150
County commissions shall become trustees and custodians.
Section
214.160
Investment or lending of trust funds — investment manager, duties — definitions.
Section
214.170
May designate responsible organization or individual to administer the income.
Section
214.180
Shall keep record of receipts and disbursements.
Section
214.190
Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition — exception.
Section
214.200
Title, how obtained to lands used for burial purposes.
Section
214.205
Violation of nuisance ordinance — abandonment — action authorized — costs — eminent domain.
Section
214.208
Disinterment authorized, when — consent required, when — cemetery owner not liable, when.
Section
214.209
Abandonment of burial site, rights revert to cemetery.
Section
214.210
Certain cities may accept or acquire cemetery lands.
Section
214.220
Lands or shares subject to all vested rights.
Section
214.230
City may acquire money or funds, how.
Section
214.240
City may provide and enforce rules and regulations.
Section
214.250
Proceedings to establish cemetery in first class counties — petition by taxpayers.
Section
214.260
Penalty for violation.
Section
214.270
Definitions.
Section
214.275
License, cemeteries — division's powers and duties — limitations.
Section
214.276
Refusal to issue license, grounds — complaint, procedure.
Section
214.277
Injunctions, restraining orders, other court remedies available — venue.
Section
214.280
Election to operate as endowed care cemetery filing with division of registration, form — fee — deposit of fee — division's powers and duties — rules authorized.
Section
214.282
Voidability of contracts, exceptions.
Section
214.283
Notification of burial lands — registry of cemeteries to be kept by division — fee may be charged for copies — surveyor locating unregistered cemetery to file with division, form.
Section
214.300
Nonendowed cemetery may qualify as endowed, when — minimum care and maintenance fund to be established.
Section
214.310
Endowed care and maintenance fund, minimum amount — bond — posting of sign, when, information required.
Section
214.320
Deposits in fund required, amount — annual report, form furnished by division — audits may be conducted, when — exemption from chapter 436 requirements, when.
Section
214.325
Required deposits — deficiency — effect — penalty.
Section
214.330
Endowed care fund held in trust or segregated account — requirements — duties of trustee or independent investment advisor — operator's duties — endowed care fund agreement.
Section
214.335
Contributions to endowed care fund for memorial or monument — deficiency, effect of.
Section
214.340
Report required — content — oath — filing required.
Section
214.345
Sale of cemetery plot — written statement to be given to purchaser — copy of annual report to be available to public.
Section
214.360
Private use of trust funds prohibited.
Section
214.363
Bankruptcy, assignment for benefit of creditors, endowed care fund exempt.
Section
214.365
Cemetery failing to provide maintenance — abandonment or ceasing to operate, division's duties.
Section
214.367
Sale of assets, notice required — prospective purchaser of endowed care cemetery, right to recent audit — right to continue operation, notification by division.
Section
214.370
Nonendowed cemetery to post signs and give notice of its character.
Section
214.380
Nonendowed section of endowed care cemetery — signs and notice.
Section
214.385
Moving of grave marker, replacement — delivery of item of burial merchandise.
Section
214.387
Burial merchandise or services, deferral of delivery, when — escrow arrangement — distribution of moneys — cancellation.
Section
214.389
Suspension of distribution, when, procedure.
Section
214.390
Existing cemeteries to operate under law — local law applicable.
Section
214.392
Division of professional registration, duties and powers in regulation of cemeteries — rulemaking authority.
Section
214.400
Citation of law.
Section
214.410
Violation of law, penalty.
Section
214.450
Indian cemeteries, how established — trust fund authorized.
Section
214.455
Destruction or defacing any cemetery property, penalty.
Section
214.500
Cemeteries acquired by a city at tax sales or as nuisances may be sold.
Section
214.504
No liability for new cemetery operators, when — rights of holders of contracts for burial.
Section
214.508
Previous cemetery owner liable, when.
Section
214.512
New cemetery owner not liable for deficiencies, exception.
Section
214.516
Registration as an endowed care cemetery, when — compliance with endowed care cemetery law required.
Section
214.550
Scatter gardens, operation by churches maintaining religious cemeteries — maintenance of garden and records, duty of operator.