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2023 Vermont Statutes
Title 18 - Health
Chapter 121 - Cemeteries
Subchapter 1: General Provisions
- § 5300. Statutory purposes
- § 5301. Application of chapter
- § 5302. Definitions
- § 5303. Policy declared
- § 5304. Limitation of powers
- § 5305. Right to make rules and regulations
- § 5306. Perpetual care funds
- § 5307. Rule against perpetuities
- § 5308. Custodian of funds; bond
- § 5309. Investment of funds
- § 5310. Plats
- § 5311. Recording of plats
- § 5312. Limitation of sales
- § 5313. Records; burial records open to public
- § 5314. Sale of property for interment purposes; disposition of receipts
- § 5315. Sale of property for other than burial purposes; disposition of proceeds
- § 5316. Encumbrance of cemetery property prohibited
- § 5317. Tax exemptions
- § 5318. Public use of cemetery for other purposes
- § 5319. Disposition of remains of dead
- § 5320. Temporary vaults
- § 5321. Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers
- § 5322. Temporary access to cemeteries
- § 5323. Natural burial grounds; exemptions
- § 5361. Appropriations and regulations by towns
- § 5362. Repair; expense; notice
- § 5363. Penalty
- § 5364. Fences; penalty
- § 5365. Damages for want of fence; liability
- § 5366. Not liable until notified
- § 5367. Duties of selectboard
- § 5368. Exceptions
- § 5369. Removal
- § 5370. Notice; headstones
- § 5371. Town or city to furnish headstone
- § 5372. Appropriation for cemetery associations
- § 5373. Cemetery commissioners
- § 5374. Term
- § 5375. Laying out and improving grounds; burial without charge
- § 5376. Sale of lots; tax exemption
- § 5377. Proceeds of sale; expenditure
- § 5378. Bylaws and regulations
- § 5379. Report of cemetery commissioners
- § 5380. Auditors
- § 5381. Transfer of care from commissioners to selectboard
- § 5382. Town trust funds—Acceptance of property
- § 5383. Acceptance of money in trust
- § 5384. Payment to treasurer; record; investment
- § 5385. Accounts; expenditures
- § 5386. Report
- § 5387. Money received prior to 1895
- § 5431. Cemetery associations; corporations
- § 5432. Organization and operation
- § 5433. Authority; powers
- § 5434. Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority
- § 5435. Sales of lots, crypts, and niches; how income applied; rules
- § 5436. Perpetual care fund
- § 5437. Investment
- § 5438. Cemetery accounts; annual reports
- § 5439. Dissolution of cemetery associations
- § 5440. Merger of cemetery associations
- § 5481. Acquisition of land and property—Purchase or gift
- § 5482. Eminent domain
- § 5483. Acquisition of land by town
- § 5484. Acquisition of gravel by town or association
- § 5485. Appeal to Superior Court
- § 5486. Repealed. 1965, No. 142.
- § 5487. Acquisition of land by cemetery associations generally
- § 5488. Enlargement of cemeteries by associations—Petition to Superior Court to acquire land
- § 5489. Service of petition; appointment of commissioners
- § 5490. Notice; hearing
- § 5491. Survey; damages
- § 5492. Report, filing
- § 5493. Judgment on report; costs
- § 5494. Title to lands taken
- § 5531. Disposal of lot by will; descent; burial rights of husband and wife
- § 5532. Escheat of cemetery lots—Definition
- § 5533. Escheat when owner’s whereabouts unknown
- § 5534. Petition; hearing
- § 5535. Notice; publication
- § 5536. Order
- § 5537. Heirs
- § 5571. Location
- § 5572. Plats
- § 5573. Construction requirements
- § 5574. Repealed. 2021, No. 15, § 9(1), eff. July 1, 2021.
- § 5575. Use before completion prohibited
- § 5576. Sales before the completion of building; bond
- § 5577. Mausoleum becoming untenable
- § 5578. Perpetual care funds
- § 5579. Penalties
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