Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly A company or association incorporated for cemetery purposes may appropriate or otherwise acquire, and may hold, not more than six hundred forty acres of land at any one location, which shall be exempt from execution and from being appropriated for any public […]
Effective: January 1, 1966 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 106th General Assembly If it is necessary for a cemetery company or association, for cemetery purposes, to acquire lands by appropriation, such proceedings shall be taken therefor as are provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. No lands shall be […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Land shall not be appropriated, nor shall a cemetery be located, by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes or by a benevolent or religious society, within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, unless the owner of such dwelling house gives his […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly 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 and situated within one mile of the corporate limits of a municipal corporation.
Effective: January 1, 1966 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 106th General Assembly When in the judgment of the officers of a cemetery association it is necessary to secure additional land for the purpose of making an entrance to its ground, or to improve an entrance already made, the officers may apply to the board […]
Effective: October 20, 1999 Latest Legislation: House Bill 18 – 123rd General Assembly After paying for its land, a cemetery company or association shall apply all its receipts and income, whether from sale of lots, from donations, or otherwise, exclusively to laying out, preserving, protecting, and embellishing the cemetery and avenues within it or leading […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly A cemetery company or association may adopt rules for disposing of and conveying burial lots; but any person not already the owner of a lot in the cemetery may purchase any unsold lot in it, and have such lot conveyed to him […]
Effective: September 12, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 175 – 127th General Assembly (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 the Revised Code. (B) A cemetery company or association may prescribe rules for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment […]
Effective: September 12, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 175 – 127th General Assembly (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) of section 1721.071 of the Revised Code is not subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code if […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Any cemetery association organized under the laws of this state may sell and convey by deed in fee simple to a corporation organized not for profit under the laws of this state for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a public monument […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Every cemetery company or association shall cause a plat of its grounds and of the lots laid out by it to be made and to be recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which they […]
Effective: September 29, 2017 Latest Legislation: House Bill 49 – 132nd General Assembly Except as otherwise provided in this section, lands appropriated and set apart as burial grounds, either for public or for private use, and recorded or filed as such in the office of the county recorder of the county where they are situated, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly A cemetery company or association may act either as a soldiers’ monumental association or as a cemetery association, and, as it elects, may take charge of the management of cemetery grounds, or monuments especially erected in honor of soldiers or seamen who […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Every cemetery company or association may take, hold, possess, use, enjoy, and occupy such property of any kind as is given, granted, or devised to it for the purpose of building, repairing, maintaining, adorning, and beautifying fences, graves, vaults, mausoleums, monuments, walks, […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly Any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, who have purchased and improved lands for cemetery purposes by subscriptions of lot holders and the sale of lots, and who are acting through a board of trustees chosen by members […]
Effective: January 9, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 104th General Assembly The trustees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, whether it is incorporated or unincorporated, and a board of township trustees having charge of township cemeteries, may appoint day and night watchmen for their grounds. All such watchmen, and […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The trustees of a cemetery association whose cemetery is within the limits of a municipal corporation which by ordinance has prohibited interments in such municipal corporations, whose cemetery is abandoned as a place for the burial of the dead, or which is […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly A cemetery association may create a sinking fund, either out of surplus money on hand, or out of money which has been given to the association by will, deed, or otherwise. The association may invest money appropriated to such sinking fund in […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When, in the judgment of the trustees of any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and have purchased and improved land for cemetery purposes, the welfare of all concerned in the lands purchased and […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly 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 to 1721.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, subject to the conditions provided in such sections. No building shall […]
