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Cemeteries

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Statutory purposes

Application of chapter

Definitions

Policy declared

Limitation of powers

Right to make rules and regulations

Perpetual care funds

Rule against perpetuities

Custodian of funds; bond

Investment of funds

Plats

Recording of plats

Limitation of sales

Records; burial records open to public

Sale of property for interment purposes; disposition of receipts

Sale of property for other than burial purposes; disposition of proceeds

Encumbrance of cemetery property prohibited

Tax exemptions

Public use of cemetery for other purposes

Disposition of remains of dead

Temporary vaults

Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers

Temporary access to cemeteries

Natural burial grounds; exemptions

Appropriations and regulations by towns

Repair; expense; notice

Penalty

Fences; penalty

Damages for want of fence; liability

Not liable until notified

Duties of selectboard

Exceptions

Removal

Notice; headstones

Town or city to furnish headstone

Appropriation for cemetery associations

Cemetery commissioners

Term

Laying out and improving grounds; burial without charge

Sale of lots; tax exemption

Proceeds of sale; expenditure

Bylaws and regulations

Report of cemetery commissioners

Auditors

Transfer of care from commissioners to selectboard

Town trust funds-Acceptance of property

Acceptance of money in trust

Payment to treasurer; record; investment

Accounts; expenditures

Report

Money received prior to 1895

Cemetery associations; corporations

Organization and operation

Authority; powers

Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority

Sales of lots, crypts, and niches; how income applied; rules

Perpetual care fund

Investment

Cemetery accounts; annual reports

Dissolution of cemetery associations

Merger of cemetery associations

Acquisition of land and property-Purchase or gift

Eminent domain

Acquisition of land by town

Acquisition of gravel by town or association

Appeal to Superior Court

Repealed. 1965, No. 142.

Acquisition of land by cemetery associations generally

Enlargement of cemeteries by associations-Petition to Superior Court to acquire land

Service of petition; appointment of commissioners

Notice; hearing

Survey; damages

Report, filing

Judgment on report; costs

Title to lands taken

Disposal of lot by will; descent; burial rights of husband and wife

Escheat of cemetery lots-Definition

Escheat when owner's whereabouts unknown

Petition; hearing

Notice; publication

Order

Heirs

Location

Plats

Construction requirements

Inspection

Use before completion prohibited

Sales before the completion of building; bond

Mausoleum becoming untenable

Perpetual care funds

Penalties