Section 42 – Passage Through Cemeteries
Section 42. Whoever uses as a means of passage from one point to another, not being thereupon at the time for any other purpose, the premises of a cemetery or burial place, in any other parts thereof than the defined ways, paths and walks, shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty […]
Section 42a – Visitation Hours of Cemeteries
Section 42A. No cemetery exempted from taxation under the provisions of section five of chapter fifty-nine shall be closed for visitations between the hours of eight o’clock antemeridian and sunset, except during the months of June, July, August and September when such cemeteries shall remain open until the hour of seven o’clock postmeridian; provided, however, […]
Section 42b – Commercial Use of Cemeteries; Consent; Penalties
Section 42B. No person shall use the premises of a cemetery or burial place for the purpose of taking photographs or making a motion picture for commercial purposes without the previous consent of the board of commissioners, trustees or directors of such cemetery or burial place or their designees. Whoever violates the provisions of this […]
Section 43 – Buildings Upon Burial Places
Section 43. No building shall be erected upon any burial place belonging to a city, except by special authority from the general court, or with the previous consent of the city council.
Section 43a – Ownership, Maintenance and Operation of Cemeteries; Private Profit
Section 43A. No cemetery established on or after July first, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be owned, maintained or operated except by a municipality or other political subdivision of the commonwealth, a church, a religious or charitable society, or by a cemetery association incorporated as provided in section one, nor shall such a cemetery be […]
Section 43b – Sale of Cemetery Lots and Plots for Speculative Purposes
Section 43B. The sale of cemetery lots and plots, or the sale of crypts in a community mausoleum or niches in a columbarium, for speculative purposes, or the conveyance of any portion of a cemetery already dedicated to burial purposes as security for debt, is hereby prohibited, and every such conveyance shall be void and […]
Section 32 – Right of Person to Interment; Release
Section 32. A person shall be entitled to a right of interment for his own body in any burial lot or tomb of which his spouse was seized at any time during marriage, which shall be exempt from the operation of the laws relating to conveyance, descent and devise, but may be released by him.
Section 43c – Disposition of Proceeds of Sales of Cemetery Lots and Plots; Liquidation of Indebtedness
Section 43C. The proceeds of the sales of lots and plots in a cemetery shall, except as hereinafter provided, be applied solely to the improvement and maintenance of the cemetery and the avenues, paths and structures situated therein, for the purchase of additional cemetery land, and for the accumulation of a permanent care and improvement […]
Section 33 – Right of Husband to Interment
Section 33. A husband shall have the same rights in the tomb or burial lot of his wife as a wife has in that of her husband.
Section 43d – Location of Community Mausoleums; Exceptions
Section 43D. Every community mausoleum, other than a structure containing crypts erected or controlled by a church or a religious society and used only as a repository for the remains of the clergy or dignitaries of such church or religious society, and every crematory, columbarium or other structure, other than a columbarium located within or […]