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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA STATUTES AND CODES
Chapter 1 - Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions (Section 43-101 to Section 43-131)
- Section 43-101 - Incorporation; powers
- Section 43-102 - Powers to acquire and sell land
- Section 43-103 - Burial ground to be platted and surveyed
- Section 43-104 - Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment
- Section 43-105 - Duty to inclose and underdrain
- Section 43-106 - Application of proceeds of sales of lots
- Section 43-107 - Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers
- Section 43-108 - Election of officers
- Section 43-109 - Lot owners are voting members of corporation
- Section 43-110 - Bylaws
- Section 43-111 - Exemption from taxation and sale on execution
- Section 43-112 - Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity
- Section 43-113 - Grants and bequests for care of lots
- Section 43-114 - Distance from City and from dwellings
- Section 43-115 - Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes
- Section 43-116 - Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves
- Section 43-117 - Register of burials; contents
- Section 43-118 - Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Human Services
- Section 43-119 - Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body
- Section 43-120 - Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies
- Section 43-121 - Place of burial
- Section 43-122 - Mode of burial
- Section 43-123 - Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims
- Section 43-124 - Crematories; consent of property owners; permit
- Section 43-125 - Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death
- Section 43-126 - Penalty
- Section 43-127 - Prosecutions
- Section 43-128 - Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected
- Section 43-129 - Cremation required in certain cases. [Repealed]
- Section 43-130 - Public crematory established. [Repealed]
- Section 43-131 - Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law
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