57-22 - Conveyance of land to trustees or local governing body for cemetery use. - Virginia Statutes

§ 57-22. Conveyance of land to trustees or local governing body for cemeteryuse.

A. Land may be conveyed to trustees, not less than five nor more than nine innumber, for the use of any city, town, county, magisterial district, cemeteryassociation, ecclesiastical or other society, as a cemetery. It shall be heldby such trustees and their successors for such use and no other.

B. Land may also be conveyed to a county, city or town, in the name of thecounty, city or town, for use as a cemetery. Any perpetual care fundassociated with the land or cemetery shall also be transferred upon suchconveyance.

(Code 1919, § 50; 1997, c. 132.)