Cemetery Corporations

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Section
47-29-1

Cemetery corporations authorized--Nonprofit corporation law as applicable.

Section
47-29-2

Permissible bylaw provisions--General management--Conformity with other corporation law.

Section
47-29-3

Cemetery lot owners as members of corporation--Vote--Jointly owned lots--Proxy voting.

Section
47-29-4

Quorum of members--Proxies counted.

Section
47-29-5

Notice of election of directors--Publication of notice--Time of publication--Notice of other meetings.

Section
47-29-6

Directors required to be members.

Section
47-29-7

Grounds previously used for burial--Lot owners as members of corporation.

Section
47-29-8

Transfer of lot to individual owner for burial--Succession to ownership of lot--Joint owners.

Section
47-29-9

Failure to inter or care for lot or mausoleum--Resale of lot--Transfer of mausoleum to municipality--Notice required.

Section
47-29-10

Other laws applicable to nonperpetual care cemeteries.

Section
47-29-11

Power of corporation to hold real estate--Maximum holdings--Platting and sale of lots.

Section
47-29-12

Additional holdings of real property--Sale of additional holdings.

Section
47-29-13

Surveying and platting of cemetery grounds--Recordation--Lot numbering.

Section
47-29-14

Sale of unplatted and unused ground.

Section
47-29-15

Sale of platted but unused, unsold and unneeded ground--Determination by governing body of corporation--Confirmation.

Section
47-29-16

Circuit court petition for confirmation--Contents of petition--Hearing--Notice of hearing--Method of notice--Including multiple tracts in petition.

Section
47-29-17

Order granting or denying petition--Order as conclusive absent appeal.

Section
47-29-18

Judgment as vacating plat or survey--Replatting.

Section
47-29-19

Extension of cemetery boundaries--Purchase of lands--Condemnation of lands--Condemnation laws applicable.

Section
47-29-20

Improvements on cemetery lands--Prohibited uses.

Section
47-29-21

Authorization to hold personal property.

Section
47-29-22

Authorization to establish perpetual fund--Donations--Election of trustees--Bond and accounting of trustees.

Section
47-29-23

Distribution of proceeds from sale of cemetery lots--Use in care of cemetery--Expenses--Profit prohibited.

Section
47-29-24

Percentage of proceeds used to pay debts.

Section
47-29-25

Cemetery property as exempt from taxation and local assessments--Appropriation for state highway purposes of unused lands.

Section
47-29-26

Validation of previous cemetery lot deeds.