§35-5-6. Express Trusts for Perpetual Care of Cemeteries or Burial Lots
Express trusts may hereafter be created for the perpetual care, preservation, maintenance, improvement and/or embellishment of any cemetery or burial lot, public or private, and of the appurtenances of any such lot including the erection, repair, preservation and/or removal of mausoleums, tombs, monuments, gravestones, fences, railings, walks, and/or other structure or structures thereon, and the […]
§35-5-7. Requirements for Cemetery Company Contracts
(a) Any cemetery company contract shall: (1) Be written in clear understandable language and printed in easy-to-read type, size and style;
§35-5-8. Abandoned Interment Rights
(a) A cemetery company contract may include a provision whereby interment rights that are not used for a period of seventy-five years or more shall be deemed abandoned if unclaimed and shall revert to the cemetery company if the procedures in subsection (b) are followed. (b) (1) Prior to deeming an owner's interment rights abandoned, […]
§35-4-1. Disposition of Property of Subordinate Lodge of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias or Order of Eagles
If any subordinate lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Order Knights of Pythias or Fraternal Order of Eagles, in this state, working under the respective jurisdiction of the parent grand lodge of said respective orders, for this state, shall disband, surrender or forfeit its charter and cease to work, all its property, […]
§35-5-1. Appointment of New Trustees for Burial Grounds
Where any conveyance, dedication or devise was made of land for burial grounds, to any church, religious sect, society, congregation or denomination, or to any benevolent, fraternal, patriotic, literary, temperance, or charitable society, order, lodge or association, that has dissolved or become extinct in the county and vicinity where such burial grounds are situated, and […]
§35-5-2. Sale of Part of Cemetery; Prohibitions
The trustees of any burial grounds, or any incorporated cemetery association whenever it is deemed advisable by such trustees or association, and is not prohibited by the terms of the conveyance, dedication or devise of such grounds, may sell and convey any part of such burial grounds or land of such association, without restriction as […]
§35-3-6. Provisions of Article Not to Apply to Organizations Connected With Churches
Nothing in this article contained shall authorize the incorporation of any society or organization connected directly or indirectly with any church, religious sect or denomination, and nothing in this article contained shall authorize any society or organization, connected directly or indirectly with any church, religious sect, society, or denomination to have or acquire any real […]
§35-3-7. Enticement of Residents Away From Fraternal Home; Harboring or Influencing Inmate to Violate Rules; Improper Intercourse With Female Resident of Home
Any person who shall entice or attempt to entice away from any home maintained or kept by any of the fraternal organizations specified in section one of this article, or any other organization of like character, any resident of any such home; or shall aid or abet any resident of any such home to leave […]
§35-3-2. Regulations and Boards for Government
Any such grand lodge desiring to establish a home or asylum shall adopt and prescribe such rules and regulations for the government and control thereof as may be deemed wise by such grand body; and it shall appoint a board of directors, trustees, regents or commissioners, composed of a specified number of persons from its […]
§35-3-3. Boards to Be Corporations; Powers
Such boards shall be corporate bodies; and as such shall be governed by all the provisions of law relating to, and have and exercise all the privileges and powers of, nonstock corporations.