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Section 214.090 – Family burying grounds, how secured.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 214.090. Family burying grounds, how secured. — Any person desirous of securing family burying ground or cemetery on his or her lands, may convey to the county commission of the county in which the land lies any quantity of land not exceeding one acre, in trust for the purpose above […]

Section 214.120 – Costs, who liable for.

Effective – 28 Aug 1939 214.120. Costs, who liable for. — The cost of the prosecution under the provisions of this chapter, and all other costs necessarily incurred in superintending and protecting such burying grounds or cemeteries, shall be a charge upon the owners, for the time being, of the tracts of land of which […]

Section 214.131 – Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined.

Effective – 28 Aug 1987 214.131. Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined. — Every person who shall knowingly destroy, mutilate, disfigure, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone, or other structure placed in any abandoned family cemetery or private burying […]

Section 214.132 – Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court’s power to disinter.

Effective – 28 Aug 1997 214.132. Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court’s power to disinter. — 1. Any person who wishes to visit an abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground which is completely surrounded by privately owned land, for which […]