STATE STATUTES & CODES

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Chapter 214 Cemeteries

• 214.010. Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries--authority to regulate--penalties.
• 214.020. City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund--receive gifts--limitation on use of income from fund.
• 214.030. Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.
• 214.035. Conveyance of cemetery property to political subdivision, when--notice of transfer.
• 214.040. Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where--requirements.
• 214.041. Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery--exceptions.
• 214.050. Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.
• 214.060. Petition to be presented to county commission--remonstrance may be filed.
• 214.070. Terms defined.
• 214.080. Proceedings to enlarge.
• 214.090. Family burying grounds, how secured.
• 214.120. Costs, who liable for.
• 214.130. County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.
• 214.131. Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty--abandoned or private burying ground, defined.
• 214.132. Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff--court's power to disinter.
• 214.140. Property placed in trust for benefit of cemeteries.
• 214.150. County commissions shall become trustees and custodians.
• 214.160. Shall invest or loan trust funds.
• 214.170. May designate responsible organization or individual to administer the income.
• 214.180. Shall keep record of receipts and disbursements.
• 214.190. Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition--exception.
• 214.200. Title, how obtained to lands used for burial purposes.
• 214.205. Violation of nuisance ordinance--abandonment--action authorized--costs--eminent domain.
• 214.208. Disinterment authorized, when--consent required, when--cemetery owner not liable, when.
• 214.209. Abandonment of burial site, rights revert to cemetery.
• 214.210. Certain cities may accept or acquire cemetery lands.
• 214.220. Lands or shares subject to all vested rights.
• 214.230. City may acquire money or funds, how.
• 214.240. City may provide and enforce rules and regulations.
• 214.250. Proceedings to establish cemetery in first class counties--petition by taxpayers.
• 214.260. Penalty for violation.
• 214.270. Definitions.
• 214.275. License, cemeteries--division's powers and duties--limitations.
• 214.276. Refusal to issue license--notice--hearing.
• 214.277. Injunctions, restraining orders, other court remedies available--venue.
• 214.280. Election to operate as endowed care cemetery filing with division of registration, form--fee--deposit of fee--division's powers and duties--rules authorized.
• 214.283. Registry of cemeteries to be kept by division--fee may be charged for copies--surveyor locating unregistered cemetery to file with division, form.
• 214.290. Minimum endowed care and maintenance fund on election.
• 214.300. Nonendowed cemetery may qualify as endowed, when--minimum care and maintenance fund to be established.
• 214.310. Endowed care and maintenance fund, minimum amount--bond--posting of sign, when, information required.
• 214.320. Deposits in fund required, amount--annual report, form furnished by division--audits may be conducted, when--record keeping required.
• 214.325. Required deposits--deficiency--effect--penalty.
• 214.330. Endowed care fund held in trust or segregated account--requirements--duties of trustee or independent investment advisor--operator's duties--endowed care fund agreement.
• 214.335. Contributions to endowed care fund for memorial or monument.
• 214.340. Report required--content--oath--filing required.
• 214.345. Sale of cemetery plot--written statement to be given to purchaser--copy of annual report to be available to public.
• 214.360. Private use of trust funds prohibited.
• 214.363. Bankruptcy, assignment for benefit of creditors, endowed care fund exempt.
• 214.365. Public cemetery failing to provide maintenance--abandonment or ceasing to operate, division's duties.
• 214.367. Prospective purchaser of endowed care cemetery, right to recent audit--right to continue operation, notification by division.
• 214.370. Nonendowed cemetery to post signs and give notice of its character.
• 214.380. Nonendowed section of endowed care cemetery--signs and notice.
• 214.385. Moving of grave marker, replacement--delivery of item of burial merchandise.
• 214.387. Burial merchandise, deferral of delivery, when--authorized withdrawals.
• 214.390. Existing cemeteries to operate under law--local law applicable.
• 214.392. Division of professional registration, duties and powers in regulation of cemeteries--rulemaking authority.
• 214.400. Citation of law.
• 214.410. Violation of law, penalty.
• 214.450. Indian cemeteries, how established--trust fund authorized.
• 214.455. Destruction or defacing any cemetery property, penalty.
• 214.500. Cemeteries acquired by the city at tax sales or as nuisances may be sold.
• 214.504. No liability for new cemetery operators, when--rights of holders of contracts for burial.
• 214.508. Previous cemetery owner liable, when.
• 214.512. New cemetery owner not liable for deficiencies, exception.
• 214.516. Registration as an endowed care cemetery, when--compliance with endowed care cemetery law required.
• 214.550. Scatter gardens, operation by churches maintaining religious cemeteries--maintenance of garden and records, duty of operator.

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