2011 Ohio Revised Code
Title [5] V TOWNSHIPS
Chapter 517: CEMETERIES
517.06 Cemetery plat.
The board of township trustees shall have the cemetery laid out in lots, avenues, and paths, shall number the lots, and shall have a suitable plat of the lots made, which plat shall be carefully kept by the township fiscal officer. The board shall make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the division of the cemetery into lots, for the allotment of lots to families or individuals, and for the care, supervision, and improvement of the lots. The board also may make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for burial, interment, reinterment, or disinterment. The board shall require the grass and weeds in the cemetery to be cut and destroyed at least twice each year. Suitable provision shall be made in the cemetery for persons whose burial is at the expense of the township.
Amended by 129th General Assembly File No. 28, HB 153, § 101.01, eff. 9/29/2011.
Effective Date: 10-01-1953; 12-20-2005
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