17-1312g. Cemetery corporations; trust agreement, copy filed with secretary of state; requirements; rules and regulations. (a) Cemetery corporations subject to an audit by the secretary of state pursuant to K.S.A. 17-1312a, and amendments thereto, shall file, in the office of the secretary of state, a copy of the agreement or document which establishes the trust […]
17-1313. Cemeteries in or near cities; dissolution. That upon the sale of all of the burial lots in the cemetery of said corporation, or upon a vote of two-thirds majority of the stockholders of said corporation, said corporation may be dissolved, and thereupon a permanent-maintenance fund, together with all investments then outstanding, and all books, […]
17-1315. Eminent domain. Any cemetery corporation or other association of individuals owning or in possession of, or controlling a burial ground, not in a city of the first class, shall have power of eminent domain to condemn and appropriate lands necessary to enlarge such cemetery as provided by law. History: R.S. 1923, 17-1315; December 27.
17-1316. Cemetery corporations in or adjacent to cities of more than 40,000. All cemetery companies organized prior to March, 1901, owning or controlling a cemetery of fifty or more acres in or adjacent to a city of the first class having a population of 40,000 or more, the land of which was conveyed to said […]
17-1317. Same; permanent care fund. Such permanent care fund shall be perpetually held, preserved and maintained for the same purposes and upon the same terms and conditions as provided for in K.S.A. 17-1311, 17-1312 and 17-1313. History: L. 1909, ch. 72, § 2; May 29; R.S. 1923, 17-1317.
17-1319. City or association; permanent maintenance fund; use and investment. Any city owning a cemetery and any cemetery association incorporated under the laws of this state may receive, acquire and hold donations or bequests in a permanent fund to be invested as the donor may direct or if the donor has not specified, such fund […]
17-1319a. Cemetery corporations; attorney general initiate an accounting at request of secretary of state; plan to correct deficiencies. (a) The attorney general, at the request of the secretary of state, may initiate an action for an accounting of the accounts required under K.S.A. 17-1308 through 17-1319, and amendments thereto, by the trustee, including, but not […]
17-1321. Same; control; custodian, bond. The authorities of such city or cemetery association shall have entire control of raising such permanent fund, the loaning of same, and collecting and disbursing the interest thereon, and the custodian of such fund shall give a good and sufficient bond, with three or more sureties, who shall under oath, […]
17-1322. Sale by one association of all unsold real property to another owning land adjoining or in close proximity; purchase of assets. Where two cemetery associations have been organized, and the lands owned and platted and dedicated by each of said associations adjoin or are in such close proximity that the whole can be efficiently […]
17-1323. Same; replatting. That after the property of any cemetery association shall have been conveyed to another like association as provided in the preceding section, the purchasing association shall have power and authority to replat the land so taken over so as to make the platting conform to that of its other property and to […]
17-1324. Plans for mausoleums or vaults; approval by secretary of health and environment. When any person, firm, or corporation, shall desire to build, construct, or erect any mausoleum, vault, or burial structure, the same to be built or constructed entirely above the ground, or partly by excavation, and to be built, constructed and erected so […]
17-1325. Crypts and catacombs; construction. All crypts and catacombs, if any be placed therein in such mausoleum, vault, or other structure, shall be constructed so that all parts thereof may be readily and easily examined by the secretary of health and environment or the secretary’s designee or by a local health officer, and such crypts […]
17-1326. Same; sealing burial structure; reinterment. Should any firm, person or corporation fail to hermetically seal such crypts or catacombs placed or constructed in such mausoleum, vault, or other burial structure and by reason of such failure or other reasons, offensive odors or effluvia arise therefrom, the secretary of health and environment or the secretary’s […]
17-1327. Same; penalties. Any firm, person or corporation who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, may be fined in any sum, not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months. History: L. 1917, ch. 85, § 4; May 26; R.S. 1923, […]
17-1328. Sale of lands of abandoned cemeteries. Cemetery corporations and associations that no longer function, and owning lands that have been abandoned for cemetery purposes, which contain less than twenty (20) graves, may sell such lands: Provided, however, That sufficient ground shall be retained for the proper care of the remaining graves. History: L. 1927, […]
17-1329. Same; use of proceeds. It shall be the duty of the trustees or treasurer of such cemetery corporation or association, or the township trustee, to apply the proceeds of such sale or sales to the permanent maintenance and care of the remaining graves in such abandoned cemetery. History: L. 1927, ch. 153, § 2; […]
17-1330. Cemetery districts; petition; establishment; tax levy; limitation; care of abandoned cemetery; reinvestment of title to lots, when; proceedings. (a) Whenever a petition, setting forth the proposed cemetery district, and signed by not less than 51% of the qualified electors of the proposed district is presented to the board of county commissioners of the county […]
17-1330a. Same; withdrawal of cemetery; petition. Whenever any such cemetery district has been formed including more than one cemetery, and there is no outstanding indebtedness against such district, then any one of such cemeteries may be withdrawn from such district by presenting to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the greater […]
17-1330b. Same; inclusion of adjoining territory; resolution, hearing, publication. (a) The board of county commissioners of any county having a cemetery district established pursuant to K.S.A. 17-1330, may by resolution, enlarge the district to include adjoining territory in which there is located an abandoned cemetery. (b) No order shall be made under the provisions of […]
17-1331. Same; organization. Within 30 days after such order is entered by the board of county commissioners, as above provided, it is hereby made the duty of the township trustee of the township in which township lies the greatest portion of territory comprising such cemetery district, to call a meeting of the qualified electors of […]
