The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2024 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
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5313)-
§ 5313. Records; burial records open to public
An agency engaged in the business of a cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium shall provide and maintain a suitable place of deposit for the records and files of such cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium, of such character as will safely keep and preserve such records and files from loss and destruction, and it shall make and file proper records in such place. The record of the permanent disposition of human remains shall at all reasonable times be open to the public. (Amended 2021, No. 169 (Adj. Sess.), § 9, eff. January 1, 2023.)