2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 381 TITLE TO PROPERTY AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE, OWNERSHIP, AND ALIENATION 381.750 Judgment -- Removal of bodies and monuments.
381.750 Judgment -- Removal of bodies and monuments.
If no claim is made within thirty (30) days after the last advertisement, or if claims have <br>been made and compensation duly paid either to the claimants or into court, the court <br>shall declare the cemetery to be abandoned and enter judgment accordingly, vesting fee <br>simple title in the complainant. Thereafter claimants shall have thirty (30) days in which <br>to remove the mortal remains and monuments from lots to which they have been <br>adjudged to have claim, the reasonable cost thereof to be paid by the claimant. If, within <br>thirty (30) days after entry of judgment said remains have not been removed by the <br>claimants thereto, it shall be the duty of such complainant, through its proper officers, to <br>pay for the removal of the monument and the disinterment, removal, and the reinterment <br>of such body, or bodies, in such other cemetery in the county in which said city is located <br>as the protesting lot owner may designate, or if no designation be made, to another <br>suitable cemetery in the county.
History: Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 4. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 29,
sec. 4.
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