2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-315a. Use of ancient burial place.
Sec. 19a-315a. Use of ancient burial place. No municipality shall alienate or appropriate any ancient burial place to any use other than that of a burial ground. No
portion of any ancient burial place shall be taken for public use without the approval of
the General Assembly. If any ancient burial place is appropriated for any other use and
the bodies buried therein or the grave markers marking the same are removed, the burial
ground authority shall preserve a record of such removal indicating the date of such
removal and the site or place to which such removal was made.
History: P.A. 85-319 inserted "grave marker" in place of "monuments, gravestones or other memorials".
See Sec. 53a-218 re penalty for interference with cemetery or burial ground.
See Sec. 53a-219 re penalty for unlawful possession or sale of gravestones.
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