Effective: January 1, 1966 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 94 – 106th General Assembly The board of township trustees may accept a conveyance of, or purchase, and enclose, improve, and protect lands in one or more places within the township as it deems necessary and proper for cemetery purposes. If suitable lands cannot be procured by […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When twenty-five interested persons petition for it, the board of township trustees shall provide a public road to any township cemetery over which it has control, in the same manner as provided by section 517.01 of the Revised Code for establishing cemeteries […]
Effective: September 28, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 413 – 131st General Assembly To defray the expenses of the purchase or appropriation, and the enclosing, care, supervision, repair, and improving of lands for cemetery purposes, and of maintaining and improving entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights, the board of township trustees may levy […]
Effective: September 28, 1961 Latest Legislation: House Bill 733 – 104th General Assembly Before a purchase or appropriation of land for cemetery purposes is made or a conveyance is accepted, except where funds may be available for such purchase or appropriation of land for cemetery purposes under section 517.08 of the Revised Code, the question […]
Effective: July 2, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 48 – 128th General Assembly On the making of an order or the filing of an application as provided by section 517.04 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer shall certify the order or application to the board of elections not later than four p.m. of […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The board of township trustees shall have the cemetery laid out in lots, avenues, and paths, shall number the lots, and shall have a suitable plat of the lots made, which plat shall be carefully kept by the township fiscal officer. The […]
Effective: March 20, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 454 – 132nd General Assembly Upon application, the board of township trustees shall sell at a reasonable price the number of lots as public wants demand for burial purposes. Purchasers of lots or other interment rights, upon complying with the terms of sale, may receive deeds for […]
Effective: September 12, 2008 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 175 – 127th General Assembly (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 […]
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 517.071 of the Revised Code is not subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code if […]
Effective: March 20, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 454 – 132nd General Assembly (A) The board of township trustees may reenter a lot for which the terms of sale or deed was executed before July 24, 1986, or an entombment, including a mausoleum, columbarium, or other interment right for which the terms of sale or […]
Effective: September 28, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 413 – 131st General Assembly The proceeds arising from the sale of cemetery lots under section 517.07 of the Revised Code shall be used in maintaining, improving, beautifying, and embellishing such grounds, and for maintaining and improving entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights, except that […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly No lot held by any individual in a cemetery, shall, in any case, be levied on or sold on execution.
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The title to, right of possession, and control of all public cemeteries located outside any municipal corporation, which have been set apart and dedicated as public cemeteries, and any grounds which have been used as such by the public, but not expressly […]
Effective: September 28, 2016 Latest Legislation: House Bill 413 – 131st General Assembly The board of township trustees shall provide for the protection and preservation of cemeteries under its jurisdiction, and shall prohibit interments therein when new grounds have been procured for township cemeteries or burial grounds. Where such old cemeteries are in or near […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly The board of township trustees may make rules specifying the times when cemeteries under its control shall be closed to the public. The board shall cause the rules to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of […]
Effective: October 9, 1978 Latest Legislation: House Bill 216 – 112th General Assembly In any township in which there is a cemetery owned or partly owned by such township, if in the opinion of the board of township trustees, it is desirable to add to the area of such cemetery by the purchase of additional […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When a public cemetery, located on or near a township line, is used by the people of two or more townships for burying purposes, the boards of township trustees of such townships shall jointly take possession thereof, and care for and keep […]
Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 – 131st General Assembly A board of township trustees may create a permanent cemetery endowment fund for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and beautifying township cemeteries and burial lots in township cemeteries. The fund shall consist of money arising from the following sources: (A) Gifts, devises, […]
Effective: May 13, 1981 Latest Legislation: House Bill 95 – 114th General Assembly Where the township owns a burial place within the grounds of a cemetery association, the board of township trustees may levy a tax, not exceeding five mills on the dollar of the tax duplicate of the township, for the purpose of erecting […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly The board of township trustees may appoint three directors to take charge of any cemetery in the township, the control of which is vested in such board. The first appointments shall be for one, two, and three years respectively. The order appointing […]
