33.1-133 - Commissioner may enter into agreement with person, church, association, etc. - Virginia Statutes

§ 33.1-133. Commissioner may enter into agreement with person, church,association, etc.

Whenever it becomes necessary for the Commonwealth TransportationCommissioner to acquire land or other interest therein, for the purposes setforth in this title, and such land to be acquired is a part or the whole of acemetery or graveyard owned by any person, church, association, corporation,or any other legal entity, which has the legal authority to make dispositionof the same, the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner may enter intoagreements with such person, church, association, corporation, or other legalentity, for the removal of any remains which may be interred upon the land.Such agreement shall provide for reinterment in some suitable repository.For purposes of this article, the sprinkling of ashes or their burial in abiodegradable container on private residential property, not subject toregulation under Chapter 3 (§ 57-22 et seq.) of Title 57, shall notconstitute the creation of a cemetery or graveyard.

(Code 1950, § 33-75.1; 1960, c. 308; 1970, c. 322; 1992, c. 714.)