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The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.

NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.

Title 18: Health

Chapter 121: Cemeteries

  • Subchapter 001: GENERAL PROVISIONS
  •    § 5300. Statutory purposes

  •    § 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

  •    § 5323. Natural burial grounds; exemptions


  • Subchapter 002: TOWN 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 selectboard

  •    § 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 selectboard

  •    § 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


  • Subchapter 003: CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
  •    § 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


  • Subchapter 004: ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY BY TOWNS AND 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


  • Subchapter 005: OWNERSHIP OF CEMETERY LOTS
  •    § 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


  • Subchapter 006: COMMUNITY MAUSOLEUMS AND COLUMBARIA
  •    § 5571. Location

  •    § 5572. Plats

  •    § 5573. Construction requirements

  •    § 5574. Repealed. 2021, No. 15, § 9(1), eff. July 1, 2021.

  •    § 5575. Use before completion prohibited

  •    § 5576. Sales before the completion of building; bond

  •    § 5577. Mausoleum becoming untenable

  •    § 5578. Perpetual care funds

  •    § 5579. Penalties


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