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Home » US Law » 2022 Utah Code » Title 8 - Cemeteries » Chapter 5 - Rights and Title to Cemetery Lots

Section 1 – Unused or unkept lots — Notice procedures.

8-5-1. Unused or unkept lots — Notice procedures. (1) If a municipality or cemetery maintenance district owns a cemetery and has conveyed cemetery lots or parcels by deed with or without restrictions, and the grantee, or persons claiming through the grantee, for more than 60 years: (a) have not used portions of the lots or […]

Section 2 – Action in district court for title to lots.

8-5-2. Action in district court for title to lots. If either the grantee, or person claiming through the grantee, fails to comply with the demand or notice, the municipality or cemetery maintenance district may bring an action in the district court of the county in which the cemetery is located against all parties who have […]

Section 3 – Abandonment — Standards — Prima facie evidence.

8-5-3. Abandonment — Standards — Prima facie evidence. The fact that the grantee or holder of a lot or parcel in a cemetery has not used portions of the lots or parcels for the purpose of burial for more than 60 years shall be prima facie evidence that the grantee or holder had abandoned the […]

Section 4 – Copy of judgment to be filed with county recorder.

8-5-4. Copy of judgment to be filed with county recorder. A certified copy of the judgment in the action to revest title to cemetery lots, sites, or parcels shall be filed with the county recorder in the county in which the lots, sites, or parcels are located. Enacted by Chapter 132, 1985 General Session

Section 5 – Proceeds of resale of lots.

8-5-5. Proceeds of resale of lots. The proceeds from the subsequent resale of any lot or parcel, title to which has been revested in the municipality or cemetery maintenance district under Section 8-5-2 or 8-5-6, less the costs and expenses incurred in the proceeding, shall become part of the permanent care and improvement fund of […]

Section 7 – Sale of only right to be buried.

8-5-7. Sale of only right to be buried. Municipalities and cemetery maintenance districts shall sell only the right to be buried in the cemetery and all cemetery lots or parcels sold by a municipality after April 29, 1985, or by a cemetery maintenance district after June 1, 2001 shall be rights to be buried only. […]