Alaska Statutes Title 10, Chapter 10.30 - Cemetery Associations and Nonprofit Cemetery Corporations

• Sec. 10.30.010 Formation of Cemetery Association.
  Five or more persons who are residents of the same recording district may form themselves into a cemetery association, and elect at least three...
• Sec. 10.30.020 Records.
  The clerk shall keep a record of the proceedings of the meetings of the association, certify to and record one copy of the record...
• Sec. 10.30.030 Effect of Filing and Recording.
  Upon filing and recording the record as required in AS 10.30.020 the trustees and members of the association and successors are invested with the...
• Sec. 10.30.040 Succession and Powers of Trustees.
  The trustees of a cemetery association have perpetual succession, and may contract, and prosecute and defend actions.
• Sec. 10.30.050 Bylaws.
  A cemetery association may enact bylaws necessary for the proper management of the association and may prescribe the terms on which members may be...
• Sec. 10.30.055 Formation of Nonprofit Cemetery Corporation.
  As an alternative to the provisions of AS 10.30.010 - 10.30.050, a cemetery may be incorporated under AS 10.20. A nonprofit cemetery corporation is...
• Sec. 10.30.058 Other Transactions.
  A cemetery association and a nonprofit cemetery corporation may enter into mergers, interest exchanges, conversions, and domestications under AS 10.55 (Alaska Entity Transactions Act).
• Sec. 10.30.060 Power to Acquire and Dispose of Lands, and Exemption From Execution, Taxation, and Public Appropriation.
  A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may buy or take by gift or devise, and hold, land not exceeding 80 acres, for the...
• Sec. 10.30.070 Creation and Use of Irreducible Fund.
  A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may by its bylaws provide that a stated percentage of the money realized from the sale of...
• Sec. 10.30.080 Disposition of Income From Cemetery Land.
  After paying for the land, the future receipts and income of a cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation, subject to the creation of an...
• Sec. 10.30.090 Debts of Association or Corporation.
  A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may contract debts in anticipation of future receipts for the original purchase of cemetery land, the laying...
• Sec. 10.30.100 Transfer of Cemetery Lots.
  A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may adopt regulations the association or corporation considers expedient for disposing of and conveying cemetery lots.
• Sec. 10.30.110 Sale of Unsuitable Land.
  The trustees of a cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may, whenever in their opinion a portion of cemetery land is unsuitable for burial...
• Sec. 10.30.120 Purpose of Cemetery Lots Sold; Exemptions.
  Cemetery lots sold by a cemetery association or a nonprofit cemetery corporation are for the sole purpose of interment and are exempt from taxation,...
• Sec. 10.30.130 Plans of Grounds and Cemetery Lots.
  A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation shall have a plan of its grounds and cemetery lots as laid out made and recorded in...
• Sec. 10.30.140 Maintenance of Cemetery Land.
  A cemetery association or nonprofit cemetery corporation may enclose, improve, and adorn the grounds and avenues, erect buildings for the use of the association...
• Sec. 10.30.150 Annual Financial Statement.
  An annual statement of the financial affairs of a cemetery association or a nonprofit cemetery corporation shall be made by the clerk of the...
• Sec. 10.30.155 Definition.
  In this chapter, "cemetery lot" means a lot, plot, space, grave, niche, mausoleum, crypt, vault, or columbarium, used or intended to be used for...

Last modified: November 15, 2016