There is a newer version of the South Dakota Codified Laws
2011 South Dakota Code
Title 47 CORPORATIONS
Chapter 29. Cemetery Corporations
- §47-29-1 Cemetery corporations authorized--Nonprofit corporation law as applicable.
- §47-29-2 Permissible bylaw provisions--General management--Conformity with other corporation law.
- §47-29-3 Cemetery lot owners as members of corporation--Vote--Jointly owned lots--Proxy voting.
- §47-29-4 Quorum of members--Proxies counted.
- §47-29-5 Notice of election of directors--Publication of notice--Time of publication--Notice of other meetings.
- §47-29-6 Directors required to be members.
- §47-29-7 Grounds previously used for burial--Lot owners as members of corporation.
- §47-29-8 Transfer of lot to individual owner for burial--Succession to ownership of lot--Joint owners.
- §47-29-9 Failure to inter or care for lot or mausoleum--Resale of lot--Transfer of mausoleum to municipality--Notice required.
- §47-29-10 Other laws applicable to nonperpetual care cemeteries.
- §47-29-11 Power of corporation to hold real estate--Maximum holdings--Platting and sale of lots.
- §47-29-12 Additional holdings of real property--Sale of additional holdings.
- §47-29-13 Surveying and platting of cemetery grounds--Recordation--Lot numbering.
- §47-29-14 Sale of unplatted and unused ground.
- §47-29-15 Sale of platted but unused, unsold and unneeded ground--Determination by governing body of corporation--Confirmation.
- §47-29-16 Circuit court petition for confirmation--Contents of petition--Hearing--Notice of hearing--Method of notice--Including multiple tracts in petition.
- §47-29-17 Order granting or denying petition--Order as conclusive absent appeal.
- §47-29-18 Judgment as vacating plat or survey--Replatting.
- §47-29-19 Extension of cemetery boundaries--Purchase of lands--Condemnation of lands--Condemnation laws applicable.
- §47-29-20 Improvements on cemetery lands--Prohibited uses.
- §47-29-21 Authorization to hold personal property.
- §47-29-22 Authorization to establish perpetual fund--Use of income--Receipt of funds--Election of trustees--Bond of trustees--Annual accounting of trustees.
- §47-29-23 Distribution of proceeds from sale of cemetery lots--Use in care of cemetery--Expenses--Profit prohibited.
- §47-29-24 Percentage of proceeds used to pay debts.
- §47-29-25 Cemetery property as exempt from taxation and local assessments--Appropriation for state highway purposes of unused lands.
- §47-29-26 Validation of previous cemetery lot deeds.
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