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2006 Massachusetts Code - CHAPTER 114. — CEMETERIES AND BURIALS.
- Chapter 114 — Section 1. Organization of cemetery corporations.
- Chapter 114 — Section 1A. Nonprofit cemeteries; liability of directors, officers or trustees.
- Section 2. Powers and duties of cemetery corporations.
- Chapter 114 — Section 3. Records of conveyances of burial lots.
- Chapter 114 — Section 3A. Cemetery ownership of unclaimed graves; reuse of occupied graves.
- Chapter 114 — Section 4. Certified copies of recorded deeds and instruments; evidence.
- Chapter 114 — Section 5. Trust funds.
- Chapter 114 — Section 5A. Burials; denial to designated funeral director; prohibition.
- Chapter 114 — Section 5B. Notification of certain options for burial services; penalty.
- Chapter 114 — Section 6. Cremation.
- Chapter 114 — Section 7. Formation and organization of crematory corporations.
- Chapter 114 — Section 8. Crematory corporations; acquisition and holding of land in fee.
- Chapter 114 — Section 9. By-laws and regulations of cemeteries and crematory corporations; conductof business; violations.
- Chapter 114 — Section 10. Town burial places.
- Chapter 114 — Section 10A. Municipality ownership of unclaimed graves;reuse of occupied graves.
- Chapter 114 — Section 11. Taking of land for burial purposes; application to county commissioners.
- Chapter 114 — Section 12. Taking of land for burial places; hearing notice.
- Chapter 114 — Section 13. Adjudication by commissioners; taking.
- Chapter 114 — Section 14. Compensation of commissioners acting under petition to take land forburial place.
- Section 15. Appropriation for enclosing and improving cemetery; sale of burialrights;records; disposition of proceeds.
- Chapter 114 — Section 16. Appropriation for and care of cemeteries.
- Chapter 114 — Section 17. Preservation of ancient burial places.
- Chapter 114 — Section 18. Care of neglected burial places within limits of town.
- Chapter 114 — Section 19. Deposits for care and improvement of burial places or lots; records;investment of deposits.
- Chapter 114 — Section 20. Depositing funds with state treasurer; copy of instrument; notice to townor city clerk.
- Chapter 114 — Section 21. Investment of funds; interest.
- Chapter 114 — Section 22. Town board of cemetery commissioners; election of members.
- Chapter 114 — Section 23. Powers and duties.
- Chapter 114 — Section 24. Conveyance of burial lots; record; inspection; fee.
- Chapter 114 — Section 25. Gifts or bequests for cemeteries; investment of funds;disposition of proceeds of sales of lots or burial rights.
- Chapter 114 — Section 26. Limit of debts or liabilities; annual report.
- Chapter 114 — Section 27. Appointment of board of cemetery commissioners; powers and duties.
- Chapter 114 — Section 28. Conveyance of lots or interest in lots in trust for preservation asmemorial; rights of heirs of owner; control over lot or interest in lot.
- Chapter 114 — Section 29. Indivisible character of lots; vesting; limitations and conditions; rightof interment; designation of representation of lot; record.
- Chapter 114 — Section 30. Hearing as to representation.
- Chapter 114 — Section 31. Descent of family lot to heirs.
- Chapter 114 — Section 32. Right of wife to interment; release.
- Chapter 114 — Section 33. Right of husband to interment.
- Chapter 114 — Section 34. Use of land for burial; new cemeteries or extensions; approval of board ofhealth; description of land.
- Chapter 114 — Section 35. Lands to be used for burial; approval.
- Chapter 114 — Section 36. Appeal from order of board of health; hearing.
- Chapter 114 — Section 37. Regulations by local boards of health; notice.
- Chapter 114 — Section 38. Closing of tombs, burial ground or cemetery; hearing; notice.
- Chapter 114 — Section 39. Appeal from order of board.
- Chapter 114 — Section 40. Jury trial; rescission of order; costs and double costs.
- Chapter 114 — Section 41. Laying out or constructing public ways in, upon or through burial places;authority.
- Chapter 114 — Section 42. Passage through cemeteries.
- Chapter 114 — Section 42A. Visitation hours.
- Chapter 114 — Section 42B. Commercial use of cemeteries for photographers or motionpictures; consent; penalties.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43. Erection of buildings upon burial places.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43A. Ownership, maintenance and operation of cemeteries; private profit.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43B. Sale of cemetery lots and plots for speculative purposes.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43C. Disposition of proceeds of sales; liquidation of indebtedness.
- Section 43D. Location of community mausoleums controlled by churches andreligioussocieties.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43E. Erection of community mausoleums; plans and specifications;approval; construction.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43F. Community mausoleums; construction; supervision.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43G. Use of community mausoleum prior to completion; care and improvement fund.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43H. Sale of community mausoleum prior to completion.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43I. Removal of bodies constituting menace to public health.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43J. Permanent care and improvement fund for community mausoleums.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43K. Custodian of fund; administration and investment.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43L. Abating or enjoining nuisance.
- Section 43M. Permanent disposition of dead bodies or remains; records.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43N. Penalties.
- Chapter 114 — Section 43O. Sale of monuments for cemetery lots by cemetery corporations.
- Chapter 114 — Section 44. Cremation of bodies.
- Chapter 114 — Section 44A. Receptacles for cremated remains; caskets.
- Section 45. Burial permits; permits for removal of bodies;certificates of death;deceased veterans.
- Chapter 114 — Section 45A. Use of name of funeral director in connection with death certificate orburial permit.
- Chapter 114 — Section 46. Permit for burial of bodies brought into commonwealth; certificate;recording.
- Chapter 114 — Section 46A. Burial of bodies of veterans; affidavit; veteran graves officer.
- Chapter 114 — Section 47. Certificates for burial; indorsement; record; service of deceased asveteran.
- Chapter 114 — Section 48. Burial of ashes of human body; certificates for burial.
- Chapter 114 — Section 49. Licensing of funeral directors; revocation or suspension; hearing; fees;permits.
- Chapter 114 — Section 50. Penalty.
- Chapter 114 — Section 51. Sale of embalming fluid.
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