STATE STATUTES & CODES

VERMONT STATUTES AND CODES

Chapter 121 - CEMETERIES (Contains: §§ 5301 – 5579)

• § 5301 -   Application of chapter
• § 5302 -   Definitions
• § 5303 -   Policy declared
• § 5304 -   Limitation of powers
• § 5305 -   Right to make rules and regulations
• § 5306 -   Perpetual care funds
• § 5307 -   -Rule against perpetuities
• § 5308 -   -Custodian of funds; bond
• § 5309 -   -Investment of funds
• § 5310 -   Plats
• § 5311 -   -Recording of plats
• § 5312 -   -Limitation of sales
• § 5313 -   Records; burial records open to public
• § 5314 -   Sale of property for interment purposes; disposition of receipts
• § 5315 -   Sale of property for other than burial purposes; disposition of proceeds
• § 5316 -   Encumbrance of cemetery property prohibited
• § 5317 -   Tax exemptions
• § 5318 -   Public use of cemetery for other purposes
• § 5319 -   Disposition of remains of dead
• § 5320 -   -Temporary vaults
• § 5321 -   Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers
• § 5322 -   Temporary access to cemeteries
• § 5361 -   Appropriations and regulations by towns
• § 5362 -   Repair; expense; notice
• § 5363 -   Penalty
• § 5364 -   Fences; penalty
• § 5365 -   Damages for want of fence; liability
• § 5366 -   -Not liable until notified
• § 5367 -   Duties of selectmen
• § 5368 -   Exceptions
• § 5369 -   Removal
• § 5370 -   Notice; headstones
• § 5371 -   Town or city to furnish headstone
• § 5372 -   Appropriation for cemetery associations
• § 5373 -   Cemetery commissioners
• § 5374 -   -Term
• § 5375 -   Laying out and improving grounds; burial without charge
• § 5376 -   Sale of lots; tax exemption
• § 5377 -   Proceeds of sale; expenditure
• § 5378 -   Bylaws and regulations
• § 5379 -   Report of cemetery commissioners
• § 5380 -   -Auditors
• § 5381 -   Transfer of care from commissioners to selectmen
• § 5382 -   Town trust funds-Acceptance of property
• § 5383 -   -Acceptance of money in trust
• § 5384 -   Payment to treasurer; record; investment
• § 5385 -   -Accounts; expenditures
• § 5386 -   -Report
• § 5387 -   -Money received prior to 1895
• § 5431 -   Cemetery associations; corporations
• § 5432 -   Organization and operation
• § 5433 -   Authority; powers
• § 5434 -   Penalty for doing business as a cemetery association without authority
• § 5435 -   Sales of lots, crypts and niches; how income applied; rules
• § 5436 -   Perpetual care fund
• § 5437 -   -Investment
• § 5438 -   Cemetery accounts; annual reports
• § 5439 -   Dissolution of cemetery associations
• § 5440 -   Merger of cemetery associations
• § 5481 -   Acquisition of land and property-Purchase or gift
• § 5482 -   Eminent domain
• § 5483 -   Acquisition of land by town
• § 5484 -   Acquisition of gravel by town or association
• § 5485 -   Appeal to superior court
• § 5486 -   Repealed. 1965, No. 142.
• § 5487 -   Acquisition of land by cemetery associations generally
• § 5488 -   Enlargement of cemeteries by associations-Petition to superior court to acquire land
• § 5489 -   -Service of petition; appointment of commissioners
• § 5490 -   -Notice; hearing
• § 5491 -   -Survey; damages
• § 5492 -   -Report, filing
• § 5493 -   -Judgment on report; costs
• § 5494 -   -Title to lands taken
• § 5531 -   Disposal of lot by will; descent; burial rights of husband and wife
• § 5532 -   Escheat of cemetery lots-Definition
• § 5533 -   -Escheat when owner's whereabouts unknown
• § 5534 -   -Petition; hearing
• § 5535 -   -Notice; publication
• § 5536 -   -Order
• § 5537 -   -Heirs
• § 5571 -   Location
• § 5572 -   Plats
• § 5573 -   Construction requirements
• § 5574 -   Inspection
• § 5575 -   Use before completion prohibited
• § 5576 -   Sales before the completion of building; bond
• § 5577 -   Mausoleum becoming untenable
• § 5578 -   Perpetual care funds
• § 5579 -   Penalties