2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-315. "Ancient burial place", "burial ground authority" and "grave marker" defined.

      Sec. 19a-315. "Ancient burial place", "burial ground authority" and "grave marker" defined. For purposes of sections 19a-315 to 19a-315c, inclusive:

      (1) "Ancient burial place" means any tract of land within any municipality which has been used or has been in existence as a burial ground for more than one hundred years;

      (2) "Burial ground authority" means the town, ecclesiastical society or cemetery association, as the case may be; and

      (3) "Grave marker" means any of the following when used to mark graves in an ancient burial place, cemetery or burial ground: Tombs, monuments, gravestones, or fragments thereof and fences or curbing which enclose individual or family burial plots.

      (P.A. 84-280, S. 1; P.A. 85-319, S. 1.)

      History: P.A. 85-319 included the definition of "grave marker" and applied the definitions to Sec. 19a-315c.