The Vermont Statutes Online
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.
Subchapter
002
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TOWN CEMETERIES
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 5371)
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§ 5371. Town or city to furnish headstone
In case of the burial of a person not having known estate, and not having a suitable
marker or headstone erected at the person’s grave within three years after the date
of such burial, the selectboard of the town or the aldermen of a city, as the case
may be, where such person is buried, shall cause to be erected at such person’s grave,
at the expense of such town or city, a suitable marker or headstone with the inscription
thereon of the name of the deceased and dates of the deceased’s birth and death, if
the same are known. (Amended 2023, No. 6, § 175, eff. July 1, 2023.)