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2019 Code of Virginia
Title 57 - Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries
Chapter 3 - Cemeteries
Article 1. General Provisions
- § 57-22. Conveyance of land to trustees or local governing body for cemetery use
- § 57-23. Appointment, change or removal of trustees
- § 57-24. Powers and duties of trustees
- § 57-24.1. Trustee for purpose of suit
- § 57-25. Condemnation of land for cemeteries
- § 57-26. Restrictions as to location of cemeteries and as to quantity of land
- § 57-27. City of Richmond may prohibit burials in certain cemeteries
- § 57-27.1. Access to cemeteries located on private property; cause of action for injunctive relief; applicability
- § 57-27.2. Correction of interment errors
- § 57-27.3. Authorization for interment
Article 2. Jointly Owned Cemeteries
- § 57-28. Cities and counties may establish
- § 57-29. Trustees
- § 57-30. Funds from sale of lots and for perpetual upkeep
Article 3. Disposition of Property for Maintenance and Care
- § 57-31. May be in perpetuity
- § 57-32. Who may hold such property
- § 57-33. Repealed
- § 57-34. Amount to defray original cost not limited
- § 57-35. Trusteeship for administering funds for perpetual care
Article 3.1. Endowment Trusts for Perpetual Care
Article 3.2. Perpetual Care Funds, Preneed Burial Contracts and Consumer Protections
Article 4. Abandoned or Previously Unidentified Cemeteries; Removal of Remains
- § 57-35.35:1. Definitions
- § 57-35.36. Cemeteries owned by localities; good faith effort required prior to interment
- § 57-36. Abandoned or previously unidentified graveyards may be condemned; removal of bodies
- § 57-37. Costs of suits, removal and reinterment; how surplus above costs disposed of
- § 57-38. Exemption from ยงยง 57-36 and 57-37
- § 57-38.1. Proceedings by landowner for removal of remains from previously unidentified or abandoned family graveyard
- § 57-38.2. Proceedings by heir at law or descendant for removal of ancestor's remains from previously unidentified or abandoned family graveyard
- § 57-39. Proceedings for removal of remains and sale of land vacated
- § 57-39.1. Improvement of abandoned and neglected graveyards
- § 57-39.1:1. Recovery of abandoned interment rights; procedure; rights of owner of record
Article 5. Acquisition of Abandoned Lots in Certain Cities
- § 57-39.2. Reversion of unoccupied cemetery lots in cities and certain towns; rebuttable presumption [Not set out]
- § 57-39.3. Proceedings in equity; determination of abandonment [Not set out]
- § 57-39.4. Notice to owner of record; publication [Not set out]
- § 57-39.5. Judicial determination; conveyance of title. [Not set out]
- § 57-39.6. Sale of abandoned cemetery lot [Not set out]
- § 57-39.7. Applicability; abandonment determination limited in certain circumstances [Not set out]
Article 6. Pre-Need Burial Contracts -- Consumer Protection
Article 7. Cremation
Article 8. Pet Cemeteries
- § 57-39.20. Definitions
- § 57-39.21. Duty to file declaration of land use restriction
- § 57-39.22. Certain representations unlawful; perpetual care trust fund required
- § 57-39.23. Change of address required from owner of burial right
- § 57-39.24. Removal of restriction on land
- § 57-39.25. Violation a misdemeanor
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