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Title 18: Health
Chapter 121: Cemeteries
- Subchapter 001: General Provisions
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§ 5300. Statutory purposes
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§ 5301. Application of chapter
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§ 5302. Definitions
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§ 5303. Policy declared
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§ 5304. Limitation of powers
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§ 5305. Right to make rules and regulations
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§ 5306. Perpetual care funds
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§ 5307. Rule against perpetuities
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§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond
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§ 5309. Investment of funds
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§ 5310. Plats
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§ 5311. Recording of plats
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§ 5312. Limitation of sales
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§ 5313. Records; burial records open to public
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§ 5314. Sale of property for interment purposes; disposition of receipts
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§ 5315. Sale of property for other than burial purposes; disposition of proceeds
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§ 5316. Encumbrance of cemetery property prohibited
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§ 5317. Tax exemptions
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§ 5318. Public use of cemetery for other purposes
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§ 5319. Disposition of remains of dead
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§ 5320. Temporary vaults
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§ 5321. Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers
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§ 5322. Temporary access to cemeteries
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§ 5323. Natural burial grounds; exemptions
- Subchapter 002: Town Cemeteries
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§ 5361. Appropriations and regulations by towns
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§ 5362. Repair; expense; notice
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§ 5363. Penalty
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§ 5364. Fences; penalty
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§ 5365. Damages for want of fence; liability
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§ 5366. Not liable until notified
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§ 5367. Duties of selectboard
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§ 5368. Exceptions
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§ 5369. Removal
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§ 5370. Notice; headstones
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§ 5371. Town or city to furnish headstone
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§ 5372. Appropriation for cemetery associations
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§ 5373. Cemetery commissioners
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§ 5374. Term
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§ 5375. Laying out and improving grounds; burial without charge
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§ 5376. Sale of lots; tax exemption
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§ 5377. Proceeds of sale; expenditure
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§ 5378. Bylaws and regulations
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§ 5379. Report of cemetery commissioners
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§ 5380. Auditors
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§ 5381. Transfer of care from commissioners to selectboard
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§ 5382. Town trust funds-Acceptance of property
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§ 5383. Acceptance of money in trust
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§ 5384. Payment to treasurer; record; investment
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§ 5385. Accounts; expenditures
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§ 5386. Report
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§ 5387. Money received prior to 1895
- Subchapter 003: Cemetery Associations
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§ 5431. Cemetery associations; corporations
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§ 5432. Organization and operation
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§ 5433. Authority; powers
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§ 5434. Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority
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§ 5435. Sales of lots, crypts, and niches; how income applied; rules
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§ 5436. Perpetual care fund
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§ 5437. Investment
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§ 5438. Cemetery accounts; annual reports
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§ 5439. Dissolution of cemetery associations
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§ 5440. Merger of cemetery associations
- Subchapter 004: Acquisition of Property by Towns and Associations
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§ 5481. Acquisition of land and property-Purchase or gift
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§ 5482. Eminent domain
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§ 5483. Acquisition of land by town
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§ 5484. Acquisition of gravel by town or association
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§ 5485. Appeal to Superior Court
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§ 5486. Repealed. 1965, No. 142.
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§ 5487. Acquisition of land by cemetery associations generally
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§ 5488. Enlargement of cemeteries by associations-Petition to Superior Court to acquire land
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§ 5489. Service of petition; appointment of commissioners
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§ 5490. Notice; hearing
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§ 5491. Survey; damages
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§ 5492. Report, filing
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§ 5493. Judgment on report; costs
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§ 5494. Title to lands taken
- Subchapter 005: Ownership of Cemetery Lots
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§ 5531. Disposal of lot by will; descent; burial rights of husband and wife
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§ 5532. Escheat of cemetery lots-Definition
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§ 5533. Escheat when owner's whereabouts unknown
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§ 5534. Petition; hearing
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§ 5535. Notice; publication
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§ 5536. Order
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§ 5537. Heirs
- Subchapter 006: Community Mausoleums and Columbaria
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§ 5571. Location
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§ 5572. Plats
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§ 5573. Construction requirements
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§ 5574. Repealed. 2021, No. 15, § 9(1), eff. July 1, 2021.
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§ 5575. Use before completion prohibited
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§ 5576. Sales before the completion of building; bond
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§ 5577. Mausoleum becoming untenable
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§ 5578. Perpetual care funds
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§ 5579. Penalties