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2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-309. (Formerly Sec. 19-160). Headstones at soldiers\' graves.
Sec. 19a-309. (Formerly Sec. 19-160). Headstones at soldiers' graves. No cemetery association shall make or enforce any bylaw, order or regulation prohibiting the
erection of any tombstone or headstone, provided by the state or otherwise, at the grave
of any soldier, sailor or marine buried in such cemetery. Each association or officer
thereof who violates any provision of this section shall be fined fifty dollars.
History: Sec. 19-160 transferred to Sec. 19a-309 in 1983.
See Sec. 19a-297 re authority of selectmen, cemetery associations or ecclesiastical societies to enact bylaws for management and care of burial lots.
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