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Title 57 - Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries
Chapter 1. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM- § 57-1. Act for religious freedom recited
- § 57-2. Rights asserted therein reaffirmed
- § 57-2.01. Religious Freedom Week and Day
- § 57-2.02. Religious freedom preserved; definitions; applicability; construction; remedies
- § 57-2.1. Advertising by hotels, etc., that persons find objectionable because of religion
Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 57-3. Appropriation of glebe lands and church property
- § 57-4. Donations to vestries for charitable purposes
- § 57-5. R. E. Lee Camp; Pelham Chapel
- § 57-6. Lee Memorial Association
Article 2. PROPERTY HELD FOR RELIGIOUS PURPOSES
- § 57-7. Repealed
- § 57-7.1. What transfers for religious purposes valid
- § 57-8. Appointment of trustees to effect the purposes of conveyances, etc.; validation of certain appointments
- § 57-9. How property rights determined on division of church or society
- § 57-10. How trustees to hold personal property
- § 57-11. Suits by and against trustees
- § 57-12. Repealed
- § 57-13. Suits by members against trustees to compel proper application of property
- § 57-14. Suits by members to have land sold or mortgaged
- § 57-15. Proceedings by trustees or members for similar purposes, exception for certain transfers
- § 57-15.1. Order may provide that fiscal officer may sign instrument without personal liability
- § 57-16. Property held, etc., by ecclesiastical officers
- § 57-16.1. Property of unincorporated church held by corporation
- § 57-17. Conveyance of church land held in adverse possession
Article 3. BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONS AND OBJECTS
- § 57-18. Conveyance for charitable purpose to unincorporated bodies or societies
- § 57-19. Conveyances of land to benevolent and other associations to be subject to certain sections
- § 57-20. Quantity of land benevolent and other associations may hold
- § 57-21. May hold personal property through trustees
Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 57-22. Conveyance of land to trustees or local governing body for cemetery use
- § 57-23. Appointment, change or removal of trustees
- § 57-24. Powers and duties of trustees
- § 57-24.1. Trustee for purpose of suit
- § 57-25. Condemnation of land for cemeteries
- § 57-26. Restrictions as to location of cemeteries and as to quantity of land
- § 57-27. City of Richmond may prohibit burials in certain cemeteries
- § 57-27.1. Access to cemeteries located on private property; cause of action for injunctive relief; applicability
- § 57-27.2. Correction of interment errors
- § 57-27.3. Authorization for interment
Article 2. JOINTLY OWNED CEMETERIES
- § 57-28. Cities and counties may establish
- § 57-29. Trustees
- § 57-30. Funds from sale of lots and for perpetual upkeep
Article 3. DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY FOR MAINTENANCE AND CARE
- § 57-31. May be in perpetuity
- § 57-32. Who may hold such property
- § 57-33. Repealed
- § 57-34. Amount to defray original cost not limited
- § 57-35. Trusteeship for administering funds for perpetual care
Article 3.1. ENDOWMENT TRUSTS FOR PERPETUAL CARE
Article 3.2. PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS, PRENEED BURIAL CONTRACTS AND CONSUMER PROTECTIONS
Article 4. ABANDONMENT; REMOVAL OF REMAINS
- § 57-35.36. Cemeteries owned by localities; good faith effort required prior to interment
- § 57-36. Abandoned graveyards may be condemned; removal of bodies
- § 57-37. Costs of suits, removal and reinterment; how surplus above costs disposed of
- § 57-38. Exemption from ยงยง 57-36 and 57-37
- § 57-38.1. Proceedings by landowner for removal of remains from abandoned family graveyard
- § 57-38.2. Proceedings by heir at law or descendant for removal of ancestor's remains from abandoned family graveyard
- § 57-39. Proceedings for removal of remains and sale of land vacated
- § 57-39.1. Improvement of abandoned and neglected graveyards
- § 57-39.1:1. Recovery of abandoned interment rights; procedure; rights of owner of record
Article 5. ACQUISITION OF ABANDONED LOTS IN CERTAIN CITIES
- § 57-39.2. Reversion of unoccupied cemetery lots in cities and certain towns; rebuttable presumption [Not set out]
- § 57-39.3. Proceedings in equity; determination of abandonment [Not set out]
- § 57-39.4. Notice to owner of record; publication [Not set out]
- § 57-39.5. Judicial determination; conveyance of title. [Not set out]
- § 57-39.6. Sale of abandoned cemetery lot [Not set out]
- § 57-39.7. Applicability; abandonment determination limited in certain circumstances [Not set out]
Article 6. PRE-NEED BURIAL CONTRACTS -- CONSUMER PROTECTION
Article 7. CREMATION
Article 8. PET CEMETERIES
- § 57-39.20. Definitions
- § 57-39.21. Duty to file declaration of land use restriction
- § 57-39.22. Certain representations unlawful; perpetual care trust fund required
- § 57-39.23. Change of address required from owner of burial right
- § 57-39.24. Removal of restriction on land
- § 57-39.25. Violation a misdemeanor
- § 57-40. Repealed
- § 57-47. Repealed
- § 57-48. Definitions
- § 57-49. Registration of charitable organizations; prohibition against support of terrorists
- § 57-50. Reciprocal agreements with other states; online filing
- § 57-51. Nonresident registration
- § 57-52. Publication of warnings concerning certain charitable and civic organizations
- § 57-52.1. Publication of warnings concerning solicitation by professional solicitors
- § 57-53. Records to be kept by charitable organizations
- § 57-54. Contracts between charitable or civic organizations and professional fund-raising counsel or professional solicitors
- § 57-55. Repealed
- § 57-55.1. Repealed
- § 57-55.2. Charitable solicitation disclosure
- § 57-55.2:1. Solicitations by for-profit organizations
- § 57-55.3. Disclosure regarding financial statement required
- § 57-55.4. Collection receptacles; required disclosures
- § 57-56. Information filed to become public records
- § 57-57. Prohibited acts
- § 57-58. Ratio of fund-raising expenses to contributions to be included in registration statement
- § 57-59. Enforcement of chapter; seizure of property connected with terrorism; penalties
- § 57-60. Exemptions
- § 57-61. Registration of professional fund-raising counsels and solicitors
- § 57-61.1. Time and effect of registration
- § 57-61.2. Commercial co-ventures
- § 57-62. Liability imposed by other laws not decreased
- § 57-63. Local ordinances
- § 57-64. Out-of-state enforcement proceedings
- § 57-65. Fees and charges
- § 57-66. Rules and regulations; model ordinance
- § 57-67. Application to court for relief
- § 57-68. Repealed
- § 57-69. Effective date
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