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     241.16 Cemetery at correctional facilities. 

    Subdivision 1.    Cemetery establishment.  The 
 commissioner of corrections may establish, maintain, or continue 
 in existence, a cemetery for the burial of any patient, inmate 
 or person admitted to any state facility under the 
 commissioner's control upon the public grounds of such facility 
 in the manner set forth in the following subdivisions. 

    Subd. 2.    Surveyance.  The land shall be surveyed and 
 a plat thereof made. 

    Subd. 3.    Monument.  A stone or other monument shall 
 be established to mark each corner of such cemetery, and its 
 location shown on the plat. 

    Subd. 4.    Plat; lots.  The cemetery shall be platted 
 into lots, which shall be numbered; it shall have streets and 
 walks, and the same shall be shown on the plat.  All containing 
 graves shall be indicated by an appropriate marker of permanent 
 nature for identification purposes. 

    Subd. 5.    Certification of plat.  The surveyor shall 
 certify as to the correctness of the plat by an endorsement 
 thereon. 

    Subd. 6.    Plat recorded.  The plat with the surveyor's 
 endorsement thereon shall be filed for record with the county 
 recorder in the county wherein the cemetery is located.  A copy 
 of the plat shall be kept in the office of the chief executive 
 officer of the facility, together with a register showing the 
 name of the persons buried in the cemetery and the lot in which 
 they are buried. 

    HIST: 1961 c 750 s 23; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1986 c 
 444 

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