Source: http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/1721
Timestamp: 2017-08-22 08:57:48
Document Index: 346867422

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721', '§ 1721']

Chapter 1721: CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
1721.01 Acquisition, holding, and sale of exempt property by cemetery associations.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.01
1721.02 Appropriation of land for cemetery purposes.
If it is necessary for a cemetery company or association, for cemetery purposes, to acquire lands by appropriation, such proceedings shall be taken therefor as are provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. No lands shall be appropriated until the probate court or court of common pleas is satisfied that suitable premises cannot be obtained by contract upon reasonable terms, and no lands shall be appropriated upon which there is a dwelling house, farm building, orchard, nursery, valuable mineral spring or other medicinal spring, or well actually yielding oil or salt water, unless such lands adjoin a cemetery already in use on the same or opposite side of a public highway.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.02
1721.03 Proximity to dwellings.
Land shall not be appropriated, nor shall a cemetery be located, by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes or by a benevolent or religious society, within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, unless the owner of such dwelling house gives his consent, or unless the entire tract appropriated is a necessary addition to or enlargement of a cemetery already in use. The limit shall not be less than one hundred yards when it is sought to appropriate for cemetery purposes property adjoining a cemetery already in use, when such dwelling house was erected subsequent to the laying out and establishing of such cemetery. When a cemetery lies within or adjoins a municipal corporation the association or corporation owning such cemetery, without such consent, may appropriate property within one hundred feet, or the width of a street or alley, of any dwelling house.
The addition of any land across a street or public road is an enlargement of an existing cemetery for the purposes of this section.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.03
1721.04 Associations prohibited from appropriation.
Sections 1721.02 and 1721.03 of the Revised Code do not apply to a corporation or cemetery association owning a cemetery smaller than four acres and situated within one mile of the corporate limits of a municipal corporation.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.04
1721.05 Land for entrance.
When in the judgment of the officers of a cemetery association it is necessary to secure additional land for the purpose of making an entrance to its ground, or to improve an entrance already made, the officers may apply to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the cemetery is located for the appointment of appraisers. Upon such application being made, such board shall proceed in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
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1721.06 Use of income - debt restrictions.
After paying for its land, a cemetery company or association shall apply all its receipts and income, whether from sale of lots, from donations, or otherwise, exclusively to laying out, preserving, protecting, and embellishing the cemetery and avenues within it or leading to it, to the erection of buildings necessary or appropriate for cemetery purposes, and to paying the necessary expenses of the cemetery company or association. No debts shall be incurred by the cemetery company or association except for purchasing, laying out, inclosing, and embellishing the ground, buildings necessary or appropriate for cemetery purposes, and avenues, for which purposes it may contract debts to be paid out of future receipts. For purposes of this section, buildings appropriate for cemetery purposes include, but are not limited to, buildings for crematory facilities, funeral homes, and other buildings intended to produce income for the cemetery company or association.
No part of the funds of a cemetery company or association, or of the proceeds of land sold by it, shall ever be divided among its stockholders or lot owners, and all its funds shall be used exclusively for the purposes of the company or association as specified in this section, or invested in a fund the income of which shall be so used and appropriated.
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1721.07 Sale of lots.
A cemetery company or association may adopt rules for disposing of and conveying burial lots; but any person not already the owner of a lot in the cemetery may purchase any unsold lot in it, and have such lot conveyed to him by the company or association upon tender of the usual price asked by it for such lots.
Burial lots sold by a cemetery company or association shall be used for the sole purpose of interments, shall be subject to the rules prescribed by the company or association, and shall be exempt from taxation, execution, attachment, or any other claim, lien, or process if used exclusively for burial purposes and with no view to profit.
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1721.071 Rules governing product of fetal death.
(A) As used in this section and section 1721.072 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code.
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1721.072 Reinterment or disinterment of product of fetal death.
(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 1721.071 of the Revised Code is not subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code if one or both surviving parents provide written consent for the re-interment or disinterment to the cemetery and comply with any rules adopted under division (B) of section 1721.071 of the Revised Code.
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1721.08 Sale of land for public monument.
Any cemetery association organized under the laws of this state may sell and convey by deed in fee simple to a corporation organized not for profit under the laws of this state for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a public monument or memorial to any distinguished deceased person, such portion of the real estate of the association as is selected and agreed upon between it and such corporation, which is not used by the association, and which has not been disposed of by it for burial purposes. Such sale shall be at a price payable in a manner and on terms agreed upon between the association and such corporation. The land sold and conveyed shall thereafter be exclusively owned, held, and controlled, by the corporation purchasing it for the interment of such a deceased person, and for the erection and maintenance thereon of such monument or memorial, and for no other purpose.
Lands so sold and conveyed, so long as they are held and used for the purposes designated in this section, shall not be mortgaged, nor be subject to sale for debts.
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1721.09 Plat and use of grounds.
Every cemetery company or association shall cause a plat of its grounds and of the lots laid out by it to be made and to be recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which they are situated, numbering the lots by regular consecutive numbers. It may inclose, improve, and adorn the grounds and avenues, erect buildings for its use, prescribe rules for inclosing and adorning lots and for erecting monuments in the cemetery, and prohibit any use, division, improvement, or adornment of a lot. An annual exhibit shall be made of the affairs of the company or association.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.09
1721.10 Exemptions of burial grounds.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, lands appropriated and set apart as burial grounds, either for public or for private use, and recorded or filed as such in the office of the county recorder of the county where they are situated, and any burial ground that has been used as such for fifteen years are exempt from sale on execution on a judgment, taxation, dower, and compulsory partition; but land appropriated and set apart as a private burial ground is not so exempt if it exceeds in value the sum of fifty dollars.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.10
1721.11 Acting as soldiers' monumental association.
A cemetery company or association may act either as a soldiers' monumental association or as a cemetery association, and, as it elects, may take charge of the management of cemetery grounds, or monuments especially erected in honor of soldiers or seamen who have died in the service of the state or of the United States or both.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.11
1721.12 Acceptance and execution of certain trusts.
Every cemetery company or association may take, hold, possess, use, enjoy, and occupy such property of any kind as is given, granted, or devised to it for the purpose of building, repairing, maintaining, adorning, and beautifying fences, graves, vaults, mausoleums, monuments, walks, cemetery lots, drives, or avenues in its cemeteries, and may appropriate such property, or the proceeds thereof, to any of such purposes according to the terms of the trust for which it was given, granted, or devised.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.12
1721.13 Incorporation when holding land within a village.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.13
Cite as R.C. § 1721.14
1721.15 Sale of grounds by certain associations.
The trustees of a cemetery association whose cemetery is within the limits of a municipal corporation which by ordinance has prohibited interments in such municipal corporations, whose cemetery is abandoned as a place for the burial of the dead, or which is involved in debt it is unable to pay, may apply, by petition to the court of common pleas of the county in which such cemetery is located, for the sale of the whole or a portion of its grounds, and said court may order such sale. The money derived from such sale shall be applied, under the direction of such court, to the costs of the removal from such grounds and reinterment elsewhere of the remains of the dead and to the payment of any debts of such association. Any surplus of such proceeds over such costs and debts must be invested upon interest, and the income therefrom applied to keeping in repair any unsold portion of the cemetery; if the entire premises are sold, any such surplus shall be divided pro rata among the owners of lots therein. The court shall set a time for the removal of the dead, after the confirmation of such sale.
Notice of the filing of such petition shall be given by publication for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where it is filed, setting forth the object and prayer of the petition and that any person claiming an interest in the subject matter of such petition may appear and file an answer. On final hearing of the case, the court shall make such order or decree as will best secure the rights of the persons having an interest in such cemetery.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.15
1721.16 Sinking fund.
A cemetery association may create a sinking fund, either out of surplus money on hand, or out of money which has been given to the association by will, deed, or otherwise.
The association may invest money appropriated to such sinking fund in bonds of the United States, of the state of Ohio, or of a city therein, or may loan such money upon first mortgage of real estate in this state worth double the loan or upon collateral consisting of any such securities which are of equal face value with the loan. It shall not loan such money to a member of the cemetery board.
All moneys thus appropriated to a sinking fund and interest earned thereon shall be held exclusively for the enlargement, improvement, repair, or adornment of cemetery grounds, or for constructing or keeping in repair buildings, monuments, or other structures which the association deems necessary or appropriate for cemetery grounds, and shall not be appropriated or used for any other purpose.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.16
1721.17 Transfer from one association to another.
When, in the judgment of the trustees of any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and have purchased and improved land for cemetery purposes, the welfare of all concerned in the lands purchased and improved would be subserved by transferring such lands and improvements and other assets of such association to another association incorporated under the laws of this state for cemetery purposes, said trustees shall call a meeting of the association by giving notice of such meeting for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which said cemetery is located, specifying the place, time, and object of such meeting. A majority of the members of such association shall constitute a quorum. If by a majority vote of the members of such association the trustees are authorized to convey and transfer such lands and improvements and other assets to a corporation so organized for cemetery purposes and electing to accept such transfer, said trustees may execute a deed of conveyance and transfer of said lands, improvements, and other assets to said corporation. If the members of such association are its lot owners, and notice of such meeting has been given as provided by this section, not less than fifteen members shall constitute a quorum, and the conveyance and transfer of the lands, improvements, and other assets may be authorized by the vote of two thirds of the members present at the meeting.
After such transfer the corporation to which it was made shall carry out the objects for which the original association was formed and shall apply any moneys received by it from said original association in laying out, preserving, protecting, and embellishing said cemetery.
The rights of lot owners in the cemetery ground of the original association are not affected by this section or by any action taken under it.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.17
1721.18 Crematory associations and morgues.
Any company or association incorporated for the erection and maintenance of a crematory may exercise all the rights and powers conferred by sections 1721.01 to 1721.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, subject to the conditions provided in such sections. No building shall be erected for such a purpose within two hundred yards of a dwelling house unless the owner of the dwelling house gives his consent. No person, company, association, or firm shall establish a morgue on a street upon which there are dwelling houses unless the owners or occupants of all dwelling houses within two hundred yards of the proposed morgue give their written consent thereto. This section does not apply to a crematory built, or a morgue established, as of April 3, 1900.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.18
1721.19 Violation of bylaw, rule or regulation - detention or arrest.
(A) No person shall violate a bylaw, rule, or regulation adopted by the trustees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, or by a board of township trustees having charge of township cemeteries, with reference to the protection, good order, and preservation of cemeteries, and the trees, shrubbery, structures, and adornments therein.
(1) A watchperson, superintendent, gardener, or agent of a cemetery company or association who has probable cause to believe that a person has violated division (A) of this section may detain the person in a reasonable manner and for a reasonable length of time within the property of the cemetery company or association for the purpose of recovering any property involved in the violation, causing an arrest to be made by a peace officer, or obtaining a warrant of arrest.
(2) A watchperson, superintendent, gardener, or agent acting under division (B)(1) of this section shall not search the person detained, search or seize any property belonging to the person detained without the person's consent, or use undue restraint upon the person detained.
(3) Any peace officer, as defined in section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, may arrest without a warrant any person who the officer has probable cause to believe has committed any act in violation of division (A) of this section that also is a violation of law and shall make the arrest within a reasonable time after the commission of the act in violation of division (A) of this section.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.19
1721.20 Charge for delivery or installation of burial vault.
No person, partnership, association, or corporation or officers, agents or employees thereof, shall directly or indirectly make or collect any charge pertaining to the delivery or installation of a burial receptacle in a cemetery for human remains, except when such charge is for service actually performed, or expense actually incurred in aid of said installation.
Charges under this exception shall be equal for similar services in the same cemetery.
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Effective Date: 10-29-1953 .
1721.21 Establishment of endowment care trust.
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1721.211 Preneed cemetery merchandise and services contract.
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1721.23 Cancellation of contract for sale of mausoleum space.
Cite as R.C. § 1721.23
Effective Date: 01-01-1993 .
1721.99 Penalty.
(A) Whoever violates section 1721.19 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.
(B) Whoever violates section 1721.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.
(C) Whoever violates section 1721.21 or 1721.211 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.
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