Ohio Revised Code Chapter 759 - Cemeteries

• Section 759.01 - Cemeteries And Crematories.
  Any municipal corporation may provide public cemeteries and crematories for burial or incineration of the dead and regulate public and private cemeteries and crematories....
• Section 759.02 - Cemeteries Outside Corporate Limits.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may provide a place for the interment of the dead outside of the corporate limits, and the...
• Section 759.03 - Powers Of Legislative Authority As To Cemeteries.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a public burial ground or cemetery, whether within or without the municipal corporation, may pass and...
• Section 759.04 - Power To Sell Portions Of Cemetery.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may sell any portion of the cemetery grounds owned by it and not used for the burial...
• Section 759.05 - Burials Prohibited Within Municipal Corporation.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may prohibit the interment of the dead within the municipal corporation limits, and, for the purpose of...
• Section 759.06 - Bond Of Officer To Secure Cemetery Funds.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may require the officer authorized to receive and disburse moneys arising from the sale of lots, or...
• Section 759.07 - Conveyance Of Lands Abandoned For Cemetery Purposes.
  When a municipal corporation holds land within its limits which has been used as a cemetery or burial ground, in which land interments have...
• Section 759.08 - Title Vested In Municipal Corporation.
  The title to and right of possession of public cemeteries and burial grounds located within a municipal corporation and set apart and dedicated as...
• Section 759.09 - Duties Of Director Of Public Service.
  The director of public service shall take possession and charge, and have the entire management, control, and regulation of public burial grounds and cemeteries...
• Section 759.10 - Institution Of Suits.
  The director of public service shall, when necessary, institute suits in the name of the city to recover the possession of burial grounds, remove...
• Section 759.11 - Bylaws And Regulations.
  The director of public service may make bylaws and regulations, not inconsistent with the ordinances of the city and the constitution and laws of...
• Section 759.12 - City May Accept And Maintain Permanent Fund For Care Of Lots In Cemeteries.
  In the bylaws and regulations provided for by section 759.11 of the Revised Code, the director of public service shall declare the amount of...
• Section 759.13 - Price Of Lots And Terms Of Payment.
  The director of public service shall determine the size and price of cemetery lots, the terms of payment therefor, and shall give to each...
• Section 759.14 - Sale Of Lots - Laying Off And Embellishing Of Grounds - Donations.
  The director of public service shall have entire charge and control of receipts from the sale of cemetery lots, and of laying off and...
• Section 759.15 - Funds Of Cemeteries To Be Deposited - Investment - Payments.
  The director of public service shall turn over to the legislative authority of the city property on hand under his control or held by...
• Section 759.16 - Appointment Of Clerk.
  The director of public service shall appoint a clerk, and shall keep accurate minutes of all proceedings concerning cemeteries. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 759.17 - Annual And Quarterly Report To Legislative Authority.
  On the first Monday of January each year, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, the director of public service shall report in writing...
• Section 759.18 - Enlargement Of Grounds.
  When, in his judgment, an enlargement of any burial or cemetery grounds becomes necessary, or grounds for additional cemeteries should be provided, the director...
• Section 759.19 - Transfer Of Village Cemetery - Powers And Duties Of Township Trustees.
  In all cases in which the legislative authority of a village which has title to a cemetery fails to take proper care thereof, and...
• Section 759.20 - Board Of Cemetery Trustees.
  The mayor of a village owning a public burial ground or cemetery may appoint a board to be known as the board of cemetery...
• Section 759.21 - Vacancies.
  In case of vacancy in the board of cemetery trustees in any village appointed as provided in section 759.20 of the Revised Code by...
• Section 759.22 - Removals.
  The mayor of a village in which there is a board of cemetery trustees appointed under section 759.20 of the Revised Code may remove...
• Section 759.23 - Organization Of Board Of Trustees For Village Cemeteries.
  The board of cemetery trustees shall have the powers and perform the duties prescribed by sections 759.09 to 759.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code,...
• Section 759.24 - Property In Village Supporting Cemetery Exempt From Tax.
  All property within a village in which there is a cemetery established and maintained by such village shall be exempt from taxes for the...
• Section 759.25 - Villages May Tax For Funeral Coach Or Vault On Vote Of Electors.
  The legislative authority of a village may levy a tax for the purchase of a funeral coach or the construction of a vault for...
• Section 759.26 - Form Of Ballot.
  The electors of a village voting at an election as provided by section 759.25 of the Revised Code shall have placed on their ballots...
• Section 759.27 - Union Of Municipal Corporations And Townships For Cemetery Purposes.
  The legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, or of one or more municipal corporations and the boards of township trustees of one...
• Section 759.28 - Appropriation Of Land For Cemetery Purposes.
  When an appropriation of land for cemetery purposes mentioned in section 759.27 of the Revised Code becomes necessary, it shall be made by the...
• Section 759.29 - Titles Vested.
  The title to the grounds of the cemetery provided for in section 759.27 of the Revised Code, whether by purchase or otherwise, shall vest...
• Section 759.30 - Apportionment Of Expense.
  The expense of the purchase, or of the proceedings in case of appropriation and the damages awarded, or both, for land for cemetery purposes...
• Section 759.31 - Control And Management - Compensation.
  A cemetery owned in common as provided by section 759.27 of the Revised Code, shall be under the control and management of the board...
• Section 759.32 - Power To Enforce Ordinances.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a cemetery in common with any other municipal corporation or township may pass and enforce all...
• Section 759.33 - Discrimination Forbidden.
  No distinction or discrimination of any kind shall be made by the board of cemetery trustees of a cemetery owned in common as provided...
• Section 759.34 - Joint Meeting.
  In case of a union for cemetery purposes between a municipal corporation and a township as provided by section 759.27 of the Revised Code,...
• Section 759.341 - Union Cemetery District.
  The legislative authority of each municipal corporation and the board of township trustees of each township that has united in the establishment and management...
• Section 759.35 - Joint Meetings To Make Rules.
  The boards of township trustees of townships or the legislative authorities of municipal corporations which have a cemetery owned in common as provided in...
• Section 759.36 - Board Of Cemetery Trustees - Clerk-treasurer.
  At any joint meeting provided for by section 759.35 of the Revised Code, or at the joint meeting provided for by section 759.34 of...
• Section 759.37 - Vote And Record Of Joint Meetings.
  In joint meetings mentioned in sections 759.34 and 759.35 of the Revised Code, each member of the legislative authorities of municipal corporations and each...
• Section 759.38 - Adjoining Townships Admitted To Participation.
  A township adjoining one in which a union cemetery is established as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code, may, by the consent...
• Section 759.39 - Municipal Corporation Or Township May Withdraw.
  A municipal corporation or township united with other municipal corporations or townships in the establishment or control of a union cemetery, or both, may,...
• Section 759.40 - Public Burial Ground May Be Appropriated.
  In the establishment of a union cemetery, a municipal corporation and a township may make use of a public burial ground or cemetery held...
• Section 759.41 - Purchase Of Lands - Improvements.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation and the board of township trustees of a township, may purchase, for cemetery purposes, from an incorporated...
• Section 759.42 - Municipal Corporation Or Township May Transfer Cemetery Property To Cemetery Association.
  The legislative authority of a municipal corporation and the board of township trustees may transfer to an incorporated cemetery association the lands, lots, and...
• Section 759.43 - Rights And Titles Inviolate.
  The rights and titles of lot owners, purchased prior to the sale and conveyance under section 759.42 of the Revised Code, shall not be...
• Section 759.44 - Clerk Shall Record Plat Of Ground.
  The clerk of the municipal corporation shall record in a book provided for that purpose, a plat of all grounds for cemetery purposes laid...
• Section 759.45 - Acquisition Of Cemetery Approach.
  The officers having control and management of a public cemetery, acting under sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may acquire property...
• Section 759.46 - Conveyances.
  The title to property acquired under section 759.45 of the Revised Code shall vest in the township or municipal corporation owning the cemetery. The...
• Section 759.47 - Sale Of Old Approach.
  Land belonging to a public cemetery and used for an approach thereto, and which is, in the judgment of a majority of the officers...
• Section 759.48 - Appropriation Of Property.
  When the officers having control or management of a public cemetery deem it necessary to appropriate property for a new and better approach to...
• Section 759.49 - Rules Governing Product Of Fetal Death.
  (A) As used in this section and section 759.491 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of...
• Section 759.491 - 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)...

Last modified: October 10, 2016