South Dakota 29 — Cemetery Corporations
- 47-29-1 — Cemetery corporations authorized--Nonprofit corporation law as applicable.
- 47-29-2 — Permissible bylaw provisions--General management--Conformity with other corporationlaw.
- 47-29-3 — Cemetery lot owners as members of corporation--Vote--Jointly owned lots--Proxy voting.
- 47-29-4 — Quorum of members--Proxies counted.
- 47-29-5 — Notice of election of directors--Publication of notice--Time of publication--Notice of othermeetings.
- 47-29-6 — Directors required to be members.
- 47-29-7 — Grounds previously used for burial--Lot owners as members of corporation.
- 47-29-8 — Transfer of lot to individual owner for burial--Succession to ownership of lot--Jointowners.
- 47-29-9 — Failure to inter or care for lot or mausoleum--Resale of lot--Transfer of mausoleum tomunicipality--Notice required.
- 47-29-10 — Other laws applicable to nonperpetual care cemeteries.
- 47-29-11 — Power of corporation to hold real estate--Maximum holdings--Platting and sale of lots.
- 47-29-12 — Additional holdings of real property--Sale of additional holdings.
- 47-29-13 — Surveying and platting of cemetery grounds--Recordation--Lot numbering.
- 47-29-14 — Sale of unplatted and unused ground.
- 47-29-15 — Sale of platted but unused, unsold and unneeded ground--Determination by governingbody of corporation--Confirmation.
- 47-29-16 — Circuit court petition for confirmation--Contents of petition--Hearing--Notice of hearing--Method of notice--Including multiple tracts in petition.
- 47-29-17 — Order granting or denying petition--Order as conclusive absent appeal.
- 47-29-18 — Judgment as vacating plat or survey--Replatting.
- 47-29-19 — Extension of cemetery boundaries--Purchase of lands--Condemnation of lands--Condemnation laws applicable.
- 47-29-20 — Improvements on cemetery lands--Prohibited uses.
- 47-29-21 — Authorization to hold personal property.
- 47-29-22 — Authorization to establish perpetual fund--Use of income--Receipt of funds--Election oftrustees--Bond of trustees--Annual accounting of trustees.
- 47-29-23 — Distribution of proceeds from sale of cemetery lots--Use in care of cemetery--Expenses--Profit prohibited.
- 47-29-24 — Percentage of proceeds used to pay debts.
- 47-29-25 — Cemetery property as exempt from taxation and local assessments--Appropriation forstate highway purposes of unused lands.
- 47-29-26 — Validation of previous cemetery lot deeds.