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SOUTH DAKOTA STATUTES AND CODES
Chapter 29 - Cemetery Corporations
- Section 47-29-1 - Cemetery corporations authorized--Nonprofit corporation law as applicable.
- Section 47-29-2 - Permissible bylaw provisions--General management--Conformity with other corporationlaw.
- Section 47-29-3 - Cemetery lot owners as members of corporation--Vote--Jointly owned lots--Proxy voting.
- Section 47-29-4 - Quorum of members--Proxies counted.
- Section 47-29-5 - Notice of election of directors--Publication of notice--Time of publication--Notice of othermeetings.
- Section 47-29-6 - Directors required to be members.
- Section 47-29-7 - Grounds previously used for burial--Lot owners as members of corporation.
- Section 47-29-8 - Transfer of lot to individual owner for burial--Succession to ownership of lot--Jointowners.
- Section 47-29-9 - Failure to inter or care for lot or mausoleum--Resale of lot--Transfer of mausoleum tomunicipality--Notice required.
- Section 47-29-10 - Other laws applicable to nonperpetual care cemeteries.
- Section 47-29-11 - Power of corporation to hold real estate--Maximum holdings--Platting and sale of lots.
- Section 47-29-12 - Additional holdings of real property--Sale of additional holdings.
- Section 47-29-13 - Surveying and platting of cemetery grounds--Recordation--Lot numbering.
- Section 47-29-14 - Sale of unplatted and unused ground.
- Section 47-29-15 - Sale of platted but unused, unsold and unneeded ground--Determination by governingbody of corporation--Confirmation.
- Section 47-29-16 - Circuit court petition for confirmation--Contents of petition--Hearing--Notice of hearing--Method of notice--Including multiple tracts in petition.
- Section 47-29-17 - Order granting or denying petition--Order as conclusive absent appeal.
- Section 47-29-18 - Judgment as vacating plat or survey--Replatting.
- Section 47-29-19 - Extension of cemetery boundaries--Purchase of lands--Condemnation of lands--Condemnation laws applicable.
- Section 47-29-20 - Improvements on cemetery lands--Prohibited uses.
- Section 47-29-21 - Authorization to hold personal property.
- Section 47-29-22 - Authorization to establish perpetual fund--Use of income--Receipt of funds--Election oftrustees--Bond of trustees--Annual accounting of trustees.
- Section 47-29-23 - Distribution of proceeds from sale of cemetery lots--Use in care of cemetery--Expenses--Profit prohibited.
- Section 47-29-24 - Percentage of proceeds used to pay debts.
- Section 47-29-25 - Cemetery property as exempt from taxation and local assessments--Appropriation forstate highway purposes of unused lands.
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