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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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