Ohio Revised Code Chapter 517 - Cemeteries

• Section 517.01 - Acquisition Or Appropriation Of Land.
  The board of township trustees may accept a conveyance of, or purchase, and enclose, improve, and protect lands in one or more places within...
• Section 517.02 - Public Road To Cemetery.
  When twenty-five interested persons petition for it, the board of township trustees shall provide a public road to any township cemetery over which it...
• Section 517.03 - Levy And Taxes For Expenses.
  To defray the expenses of the purchase or appropriation, and the enclosing, care, supervision, repair, and improving of lands for cemetery purposes, the board...
• Section 517.04 - Vote On Establishment Of Cemetery.
  Before a purchase or appropriation of land for cemetery purposes is made or a conveyance is accepted, except where funds may be available for...
• Section 517.05 - Notice Of Election - Ballots.
  On the making of an order or the filing of an application as provided by section 517.04 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal...
• Section 517.06 - Cemetery Plat.
  The board of township trustees shall have the cemetery laid out in lots, avenues, and paths, shall number the lots, and shall have a...
• Section 517.07 - Sale Of Cemetery Lots.
  Upon application, the board of township trustees shall sell at a reasonable price the number of lots as public wants demand for burial purposes....
• Section 517.071 - Rules Governing Product Of Fetal Death.
  (A) As used in this section and section 517.072 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of...
• Section 517.072 - Reinterment Or Disinterment Of Product Of Fetal Death.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, re-interment or disinterment of the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2)...
• Section 517.073 - Authority For Reentry For Unused Lots Or Rights.
  The board of township trustees may reenter a lot for which the terms of sale or deed was executed prior to July 24, 1986,...
• Section 517.08 - Expenditure Of Proceeds - Exception.
  The proceeds arising from the sale of cemetery lots under section 517.07 of the Revised Code shall be used in maintaining, improving, beautifying, and...
• Section 517.09 - No Levy On Lots.
  No lot held by any individual in a cemetery, shall, in any case, be levied on or sold on execution. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 517.10 - Title To Certain Burial Grounds Vested In Board Of Township Trustees.
  The title to, right of possession, and control of all public cemeteries located outside any municipal corporation, which have been set apart and dedicated...
• Section 517.11 - Care Of Cemetery.
  The board of township trustees shall provide for the protection and preservation of cemeteries under its jurisdiction, and shall prohibit interments therein when new...
• Section 517.12 - Regulating Hours Of Access To Cemeteries.
  The board of township trustees may make rules specifying the times when cemeteries under its control shall be closed to the public. The board...
• Section 517.13 - Additions To Cemetery Grounds.
  In any township in which there is a cemetery owned or partly owned by such township, if in the opinion of the board of...
• Section 517.14 - Public Cemetery On Township Lines - Joint Township Cemetery.
  When a public cemetery, located on or near a township line, is used by the people of two or more townships for burying purposes,...
• Section 517.15 - Cemetery Endowment Fund.
  A board of township trustees may create a permanent cemetery endowment fund for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and beautifying township cemeteries and burial...
• Section 517.16 To 517.18 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 517.19 - Tax Levy For Buildings Upon Grounds Of Cemetery - Bond Issue.
  Where the township owns a burial place within the grounds of a cemetery association, the board of township trustees may levy a tax, not...
• Section 517.20 - Appointment Of Directors Of Township Cemetery.
  The board of township trustees may appoint three directors to take charge of any cemetery in the township, the control of which is vested...
• Section 517.21 - Abandonment Or Discontinuance Of Cemetery - Removal Of Bodies And Stones.
  When a public or private cemetery has been abandoned, or when the board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery...
• Section 517.22 - Public Sale Of Cemetery.
  The board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery association, after notice has first been given in a newspaper of...
• Section 517.23 - Disinterment Of Body Buried In Cemetery.
  (A) Subject to divisions (B), (D), and (E) of this section, the board of township trustees, the trustees or directors of a cemetery association,...
• Section 517.24 - Form Of Application For Disinterment.
  (A) An application by a surviving spouse for disinterment under section 517.23 of the Revised Code shall be in writing and shall state that...
• Section 517.25 - Writ Of Mandamus.
  If the board of township trustees, the trustees or board of a cemetery association, or the other officers in charge of a cemetery refuse...
• Section 517.26 - Removal Of Dead.
  When remains laid in a vault or other receptacle become offensive, on the complaint of a householder of the township, the board of township...
• Section 517.27 - Transfer Of Cemeteries To Board Of Township Trustees.
  When a public cemetery in a township is not under the control of a municipal corporation, and the title or control thereof is vested...
• Section 517.271 - Transfer Of Cemetery Ownership Rights To Most Recent Owner.
  Notwithstanding section 517.22 of the Revised Code, the company, association, or religious society that most recently owned and operated a cemetery currently owned by...
• Section 517.28 - Abandonment Of Cemetery Owned By Municipal Corporation.
  Where a cemetery is located outside a municipal corporation, and not further therefrom than one mile, and the title to and possession thereof is...
• Section 517.29 - Neglect Of Order By Municipal Corporation Shall Cause Execution Sale.
  If a municipal corporation fails to remove a cemetery as provided by section 517.28 of the Revised Code for a period of six months...
• Section 517.30 - Trustees May Erect Monument Commemorating Members Of Armed Forces.
  A board of township trustees may erect a suitable monument to commemorate the members of the armed forces who died in the service of...
• Section 517.31 - Care Of Monument.
  In any township in which the board of township trustees has erected a memorial monument as provided by section 517.30 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 517.32 - Enclosure Of Abandoned Cemetery.
  Where the board of county commissioners has enclosed with a substantial fence of stone, iron, or posts and boards, all abandoned public cemeteries in...
• Section 517.99 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 01-01-1974

Last modified: October 10, 2016