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2020 District of Columbia Code
Title 43 - Cemeteries and Crematories
Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions
- § 43–101. Incorporation; powers
- § 43–102. Powers to acquire and sell land
- § 43–103. Burial ground to be platted and surveyed
- § 43–104. Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment
- § 43–105. Duty to inclose and underdrain
- § 43–106. Application of proceeds of sales of lots
- § 43–107. Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers
- § 43–108. Election of officers
- § 43–109. Lot owners are voting members of corporation
- § 43–110. Bylaws
- § 43–111. Exemption from taxation and sale on execution
- § 43–112. Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity
- § 43–113. Grants and bequests for care of lots
- § 43–114. Distance from City and from dwellings
- § 43–115. Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes
- § 43–116. Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves
- § 43–117. Register of burials; contents
- § 43–118. Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Health
- § 43–119. Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body
- § 43–120. Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies
- § 43–121. Place of burial
- § 43–122. Mode of burial
- § 43–123. Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims
- § 43–124. Crematories; consent of property owners; permit
- § 43–125. Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death
- § 43–126. Penalty
- § 43–127. Prosecutions
- § 43–128. Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected
- § 43–129. Cremation required in certain cases. [Repealed]
- § 43–130. Public crematory established. [Repealed]
- § 43–131. Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law
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