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Title 18 — Health · Chapter 121
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§ 5300. Statutory purposes The statutory purpose of the exemption for cemeteries in sections 5317 an…
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§ 5301. Application of chapter This chapter shall be applicable to all agencies now engaged in, or w…
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§ 5302. Definitions As used in this chapter and unless otherwise required by the context: (1) “Agenc…
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§ 5303. Policy declared The object, purposes, and activities of a cemetery shall be restricted to th…
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§ 5304. Limitation of powers The business of cemeteries shall not include among its corporate powers…
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§ 5305. Right to make rules and regulations The right of an agency engaged in the business of a ceme…
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§ 5306. Perpetual care funds An agency engaged in the cemetery business shall have the right to acqu…
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§ 5307. Rule against perpetuities A trust having one or more purposes provided under this chapter sh…
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§ 5308. Custodian of funds; bond When such funds are not deposited with a bank chartered by the Stat…
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§ 5309. Investment of funds The principal sum of such funds shall be invested in bonds of the United…
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§ 5310. Plats An agency engaged in any business of a cemetery, community mausoleum, or columbarium s…
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§ 5311. Recording of plats It shall be the duty of the town clerk to receive and insert or bind in a…
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§ 5312. Limitation of sales A lot, section, subdivision, crypt, niche, or any part of the cemetery, …
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§ 5313. Records; burial records open to public An agency engaged in the business of a cemetery, comm…
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§ 5314. Sale of property for interment purposes; disposition of receipts After recording the plat as…
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§ 5315. Sale of property for other than burial purposes; disposition of proceeds Either before or af…
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§ 5316. Encumbrance of cemetery property prohibited A public mausoleum, crematorium, columbarium, th…
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§ 5317. Tax exemptions Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all cemetery lands, buildings, …
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§ 5318. Public use of cemetery for other purposes A public highway or railroad shall not be laid thr…
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§ 5319. Disposition of remains of dead (a)(1) The permanent disposition of human remains shall be by…
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§ 5320. Temporary vaults A town may construct and maintain, on land owned by such town, temporary re…
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§ 5321. Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers When the use and care of a private…
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§ 5322. Temporary access to cemeteries (a) Any person wishing to have a temporary right of entry ove…
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§ 5323. Natural burial grounds; exemptions (a) A natural burial ground shall not be subject to the f…
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§ 5361. Appropriations and regulations by towns A town may vote sums of money necessary for purchasi…
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§ 5362. Repair; expense; notice (a) When lots or walks in a public burial ground become unsightly wi…
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§ 5363. Penalty A selectboard member, cemetery commissioner, or trustee who violates a provision of …
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§ 5364. Fences; penalty When the selectboard or cemetery commissioners neglect to keep in repair the…
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§ 5365. Damages for want of fence; liability When a person or estate is damaged by cattle, horses, s…
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§ 5366. Not liable until notified A town shall not be charged for not keeping in repair the fence ar…
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§ 5367. Duties of selectboard When a town neglects to place one or more of its public burial grounds…
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§ 5368. Exceptions Sections 5361-5367 of this title shall not apply to a burial ground which is subj…
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§ 5369. Removal When it is impracticable to preserve a burial ground in proper condition, and the re…
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§ 5370. Notice; headstones When remains of the dead are removed, the selectboard, if necessary, shal…
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§ 5371. Town or city to furnish headstone In case of the burial of a person not having known estate,…
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§ 5372. Appropriation for cemetery associations At a legal meeting of the voters thereof, when an ar…
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§ 5373. Cemetery commissioners When a town votes to place its public burial grounds under the charge…
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§ 5374. Term The commissioner first chosen shall hold office five years, the next four years, the ne…
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§ 5375. Laying out and improving grounds; burial without charge The board of cemetery commissioners …
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§ 5376. Sale of lots; tax exemption The board of cemetery commissioners, by one of the commissioners…
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§ 5377. Proceeds of sale; expenditure The proceeds of such sale of lots shall be paid into the town …
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§ 5378. Bylaws and regulations The board of cemetery commissioners may make necessary bylaws and reg…
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§ 5379. Report of cemetery commissioners The board shall submit annually a written report to the tow…
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§ 5380. Auditors The town auditors shall audit such statement, file it in the office of the town cle…
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§ 5381. Transfer of care from commissioners to selectboard By vote, a town may take its burial groun…
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§ 5382. Town trust funds—Acceptance of property A town may take and hold in trust grants, gifts, or …
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§ 5383. Acceptance of money in trust A town may vote to receive and hold money in trust, the income …
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§ 5384. Payment to treasurer; record; investment (a) Unless otherwise directed by the donor, all mon…
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§ 5385. Accounts; expenditures The town treasurer shall keep a separate account of each such trust f…
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§ 5386. Report The town treasurer or trustees of public funds shall annually report the condition of…
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§ 5387. Money received prior to 1895 Sections 5383-5386 of this title shall not be construed to affe…
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§ 5431. Cemetery associations; corporations Every cemetery established after June 1, 1933 that is no…
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§ 5432. Organization and operation Such corporation shall be organized, and the affairs of the corpo…
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§ 5433. Authority; powers Upon filing the articles of incorporation, the incorporators and other mem…
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§ 5434. Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority A person, firm, corpo…
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§ 5435. Sales of lots, crypts, and niches; how income applied; rules (a) The income of a cemetery as…
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§ 5436. Perpetual care fund A cemetery association established prior to June 1, 1933 may create a pe…
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§ 5437. Investment A cemetery association shall invest trust funds in the same manner as town cemete…
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§ 5438. Cemetery accounts; annual reports (a) A cemetery association shall keep and maintain adequat…
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§ 5439. Dissolution of cemetery associations A cemetery association, which is not owned and operated…
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§ 5440. Merger of cemetery associations (a) An incorporated cemetery association or society, whether…
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§ 5481. Acquisition of land and property—Purchase or gift The right to acquire land and property for…
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§ 5482. Eminent domain The right to acquire land and property for cemetery purposes by condemnation …
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§ 5483. Acquisition of land by town When it is necessary to enlarge a public burial ground or to est…
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§ 5484. Acquisition of gravel by town or association (a) When public necessity requires that a buria…
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§ 5485. Appeal to Superior Court When, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, a person o…
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§ 5486. Repealed.
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§ 5487. Acquisition of land by cemetery associations generally A cemetery association may acquire by…
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§ 5488. Enlargement of cemeteries by associations—Petition to Superior Court to acquire land When an…
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§ 5489. Service of petition; appointment of commissioners The petition with a citation shall be serv…
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§ 5490. Notice; hearing The commissioners shall appoint a time and place for examination of the prem…
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§ 5491. Survey; damages When the commissioners decide that public necessity and convenience require …
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§ 5492. Report, filing When the commissioners have completed their inquiries, they shall make report…
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§ 5493. Judgment on report; costs The court may accept or reject the report, render judgment thereon…
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§ 5494. Title to lands taken Such cemetery association shall not take possession of such lands until…
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§ 5531. Disposal of lot by will; descent; burial rights of husband and wife (a) The owner of a cemet…
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§ 5532. Escheat of cemetery lots—Definition For the purposes of sections 5532-5537 of this title, th…
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§ 5533. Escheat when owner’s whereabouts unknown When the whereabouts of a person or his or her heir…
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§ 5534. Petition; hearing The cemetery commissioners or other proper officers may file a petition on…
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§ 5535. Notice; publication Such notice shall recite the substance of the facts set forth in the pet…
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§ 5536. Order If sufficient cause is not shown to the contrary, at the time appointed for that purpo…
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§ 5537. Heirs If an heir or other person entitled to such lot appears within 17 years after the date…
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§ 5571. Location A community mausoleum, as defined in section 5302 of this title, other than structu…
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§ 5572. Plats Before commencing the building, construction, or erection of any such building, the ag…
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§ 5573. Construction requirements (a) A community mausoleum or columbarium, the crypts or niches of …
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§ 5574. Repealed.
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§ 5575. Use before completion prohibited A community mausoleum, columbarium, crypt, niche, or struct…
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§ 5576. Sales before the completion of building; bond A crypt or room in a community mausoleum, or n…
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§ 5577. Mausoleum becoming untenable If a mausoleum, vault, crypt, or structure containing one or mo…
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§ 5578. Perpetual care funds There shall be established and maintained a fund for the perpetual care…
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§ 5579. Penalties A person who violates a provision of sections 5571-5578 of this title shall be fin…