2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 381 - TITLE TO PROPERTY AND RESTRICTIONS ON USE, OWNERSHIP, AND ALIENATION
381.750 Judgment -- Removal of bodies and monuments.

Download as PDF 381.750 Judgment -- Removal of bodies and monuments. If no claim is made within thirty (30) days after the last advertisement, or if claims have been made and compensation duly paid either to the claimants or into court, the court shall declare the cemetery to be abandoned and enter judgment accordingly, vesting fee simple title in the complainant. Thereafter claimants shall have thirty (30) days in which to remove the mortal remains and monuments from lots to which they have been adjudged to have claim, the reasonable cost thereof to be paid by the claimant. If, within thirty (30) days after entry of judgment said remains have not been removed by the claimants thereto, it shall be the duty of such complainant, through its proper officers, to pay for the removal of the monument and the disinterment, removal, and the reinterment of such body, or bodies, in such other cemetery in the county in which said city is located as the protesting lot owner may designate, or if no designation be made, to another suitable cemetery in the county. History: Amended 1964 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 4. -- Created 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 29, sec. 4.