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2013 District of Columbia Code
Division VIII — GENERAL LAWS
Title 43 — CEMETERIES AND CREMATORIES
Chapter 1 — CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS; REGULATORY PROVISIONS
- Section 43-101 — Incorporation; powers.
- Section 43-102 — Powers to acquire and sell land.
- Section 43-103 — Burial ground to be platted and surveyed.
- Section 43-104 — Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment.
- Section 43-105 — Duty to inclose and underdrain.
- Section 43-106 — Application of proceeds of sales of lots.
- Section 43-107 — Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers.
- Section 43-108 — Election of officers.
- Section 43-109 — Lot owners are voting members of corporation.
- Section 43-110 — Bylaws.
- Section 43-111 — Exemption from taxation and sale on execution.
- Section 43-112 — Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity.
- Section 43-113 — Grants and bequests for care of lots.
- Section 43-114 — Distance from City and from dwellings.
- Section 43-115 — Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes.
- Section 43-116 — Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves.
- Section 43-117 — Register of burials; contents.
- Section 43-118 — Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Health.
- Section 43-119 — Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body.
- Section 43-120 — Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies.
- Section 43-121 — Place of burial.
- Section 43-122 — Mode of burial.
- Section 43-123 — Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims.
- Section 43-124 — Crematories; consent of property owners; permit.
- Section 43-125 — Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death.
- Section 43-126 — Penalty.
- Section 43-127 — Prosecutions.
- Section 43-128 — Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected.
- Section 43-129 — Cremation required in certain cases. [Repealed]
- Section 43-130 — Public crematory established. [Repealed]
- Section 43-131 — Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law.
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