§37-13-5. Procedure Upon Removal
Such order permitting removal, transfer and disposition of remains in any grave shall provide that the same shall be done with care, decency and reverence for the remains of the deceased, may require that the services of a licensed funeral director shall be utilized and may be upon any other terms and conditions as the […]
§37-13-6. Costs
In the event that the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall be granted the relief sought, then all costs of such action shall be borne by plaintiffs. In the event that such relief is not granted, or is granted only in part, then such costs may be allocated between the parties as the court shall deem equitable […]
§37-13-7. Remedy Herein Provided Cumulative
This article and the rights and remedies herein provided for shall be cumulative and in addition to other existing rights. The right of eminent domain and the remedy of condemnation of lands shall not be affected hereby. This article shall not apply to burial grounds governed by the provisions of article five, chapter thirty-five of […]
§37-13A-1. Access of Certain Persons to Cemeteries and Graves Located on Private Land
(a) Any authorized person who wishes to visit a cemetery or grave site located on privately owned land and for which no public ingress or egress is available, shall have the right to reasonable ingress or egress for the purposes described in subsection (c) of this section after providing the owner of the privately owned […]
§37-13A-2. Definitions
In this article: (1) "Authorized person" means:
§37-11-6. Presumption of Authority of Commissioners and Certain Other Officers in Certain Cases
When any deed has heretofore been made prior to the formation of this state for land or any interest in land therein, which purports on its face to be made under judicial proceedings of a court of the state of Virginia by a commissioner, special commissioner, guardian or other person, or when any deed has […]
§37-12-1. Survey by Magnetic Meridian; Variations; Measurement
When any surveyor is required to survey lands which have been surveyed before, he shall make such survey by the magnetic meridian, but shall also return and certify in his plat the degree of the variation of the magnetic needle from the true meridian, at the time of the resurvey; and also (if the same […]
§37-12-2. Execution of Orders of Survey
Every surveyor shall promptly and faithfully execute any order of survey made by any court, of lands lying in his county, and make due return of a true plat and certificate thereof; and, if he fail to do so, he shall forfeit $50 to the party injured by such failure.
§37-13-1. Jurisdiction to Permit and Order Removal, etc.
The circuit court of any county shall have jurisdiction and authority to permit and order the removal, transfer and reinterment, or other disposition, of remains in any graves located upon privately owned land within the boundaries of such county under the provisions hereinafter set forth: Provided, That the provisions of this article shall not apply […]
§37-11-4. Validation of Records Failing to Comply With §9, Chapter 73, Code 1868
All deeds and other writings admitted to record under chapter seventy-three of the Code of West Virginia of eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, are hereby declared to be as legal and valid as if the provisions of the ninth section of said chapter, and of all acts amendatory of said section, had been fully complied with.