(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 the Revised Code.
(B) A board of township trustees may adopt rules for any township cemetery over which it has control for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death.
(C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother and in compliance with cemetery rules, a township cemetery shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one of the following:
(1) In a single grave within the cemetery that contains, or will contain, the remains of a parent, sibling, or grandparent;
(2) In another location of the cemetery, including a separate burial ground for infants, on a temporary or permanent basis.
Effective Date: 2008 SB175 09-12-2008
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