17-1366. Maintenance of abandoned cemeteries; definitions. - Kansas Statutes

17-1366

Chapter 17.--CORPORATIONS Article 13.--CEMETERY CORPORATIONS

      17-1366.   Maintenance of abandoned cemeteries; definitions. As used in this act: (a) "Abandoned cemetery" means any cemetery owned by a corporation, as defined in K.S.A. 17-1312f, in which, for a period of at least one year, there has been a failure to cut grass or weeds or care for graves, grave markers, walls, fences, driveways and buildings or for which proper records have not been maintained and annual reports made to the secretary of state pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 17-1312a et seq., and amendments thereto; and

      (b)   "municipality" means the cemetery district in which all or any portion of an abandoned cemetery is located. If no portion of such cemetery is located within a cemetery district, the term shall mean the city in which all or any portion of an abandoned cemetery is located unless such cemetery is not within the corporate limits of a city, in which case such term shall mean the county in which such cemetery is located.

      History:   L. 1979, ch. 62, § 1; April 20.