Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1721 - Cemetery Associations

• Section 1721.01 - Acquisition, Holding, And Sale Of Exempt Property By Cemetery Associations.
  A company or association incorporated for cemetery purposes may appropriate or otherwise acquire, and may hold, not more than six hundred forty acres of...
• Section 1721.02 - Appropriation Of Land For Cemetery Purposes.
  If it is necessary for a cemetery company or association, for cemetery purposes, to acquire lands by appropriation, such proceedings shall be taken therefor...
• Section 1721.03 - Proximity To Dwellings.
  Land shall not be appropriated, nor shall a cemetery be located, by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes or by a benevolent or religious...
• Section 1721.04 - Associations Prohibited From Appropriation.
  Sections 1721.02 and 1721.03 of the Revised Code do not apply to a corporation or cemetery association owning a cemetery smaller than four acres...
• Section 1721.05 - Land For Entrance.
  When in the judgment of the officers of a cemetery association it is necessary to secure additional land for the purpose of making an...
• Section 1721.06 - Use Of Income - Debt Restrictions.
  After paying for its land, a cemetery company or association shall apply all its receipts and income, whether from sale of lots, from donations,...
• Section 1721.07 - Sale Of Lots.
  A cemetery company or association may adopt rules for disposing of and conveying burial lots; but any person not already the owner of a...
• Section 1721.071 - Rules Governing Product Of Fetal Death.
  (A) As used in this section and section 1721.072 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of...
• Section 1721.072 - 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 1721.08 - Sale Of Land For Public Monument.
  Any cemetery association organized under the laws of this state may sell and convey by deed in fee simple to a corporation organized not...
• Section 1721.09 - Plat And Use Of Grounds.
  Every cemetery company or association shall cause a plat of its grounds and of the lots laid out by it to be made and...
• Section 1721.10 - Exemptions Of Burial Grounds.
  Except as otherwise provided in this section, lands appropriated and set apart as burial grounds, either for public or for private use, and recorded...
• Section 1721.11 - Acting As Soldiers' Monumental Association.
  A cemetery company or association may act either as a soldiers' monumental association or as a cemetery association, and, as it elects, may take...
• Section 1721.12 - Acceptance And Execution Of Certain Trusts.
  Every cemetery company or association may take, hold, possess, use, enjoy, and occupy such property of any kind as is given, granted, or devised...
• Section 1721.13 - Incorporation When Holding Land Within A Village.
  Any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, who have purchased and improved lands for cemetery purposes by subscriptions of lot...
• Section 1721.14 - Cemetery Policemen.
  The trustees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, whether it is incorporated or unincorporated, and a board of township trustees...
• Section 1721.15 - Sale Of Grounds By Certain Associations.
  The trustees of a cemetery association whose cemetery is within the limits of a municipal corporation which by ordinance has prohibited interments in such...
• Section 1721.16 - Sinking Fund.
  A cemetery association may create a sinking fund, either out of surplus money on hand, or out of money which has been given to...
• Section 1721.17 - Transfer From One Association To Another.
  When, in the judgment of the trustees of any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and...
• Section 1721.18 - Crematory Associations And Morgues.
  Any company or association incorporated for the erection and maintenance of a crematory may exercise all the rights and powers conferred by sections 1721.01...
• Section 1721.19 - Violation Of Bylaw, Rule Or Regulation - Detention Or Arrest.
  (A) No person shall violate a bylaw, rule, or regulation adopted by the trustees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association,...
• Section 1721.20 - Charge For Delivery Or Installation Of Burial Vault.
  No person, partnership, association, or corporation or officers, agents or employees thereof, shall directly or indirectly make or collect any charge pertaining to the...
• Section 1721.21 - Establishment Of Endowment Care Trust.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Person" means any corporation, company, partnership, individual, or other entity owning or operating a cemetery for the...
• Section 1721.211 - Preneed Cemetery Merchandise And Services Contract.
  (A) As used in this section, "preneed cemetery merchandise and services contract" means a written agreement, contract, or series of contracts to sell or...
• Section 1721.23 - Cancellation Of Contract For Sale Of Mausoleum Space.
  (A) A contract for the sale of mausoleum space that is not ready for the entombment of human remains on the date of the...
• Section 1721.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 1721.19 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. (B) Whoever violates...

Last modified: October 10, 2016