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Ohio Rev Code § 1721.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.05 | Land for Entrance.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.06 | Use of Income - Debt Restrictions.

Effective: October 20, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 18 - 123rd General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.07 | Sale of Lots.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.071 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.071 | Rules Governing Product of Fetal Death.

Effective: September 12, 2008|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 175 - 127th General Assembly|(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. (B) A cemetery company or association may prescribe rules for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death.(C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother and in compliance with cemetery company or association rules, a cemetery company or association shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one of the following:(1) In a single grave within the cemetery that contains, or will contain, the remains of a parent, sibling, or grandparent;(2) In another location of the cemetery, including a separate burial ground for infants, on a temporary or permanent basis.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.072 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.072 | Reinterment or Disinterment of Product of Fetal Death.

Effective: September 12, 2008|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 175 - 127th General Assembly|(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. (B) If two surviving parents are indicated on the cemetery's burial documents for the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 1721.071 of the Revised Code and only one has given consent under division (A) of this section, prior to re-interment or disinterment, the cemetery promptly shall give notice of the consent to the parent who did not give consent. The notice shall be sent by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the parent's last known address and contain a statement that the re-interment or disinterment will occur if the cemetery does not receive written objection within thirty days from the date the notice is sent. That parent may object to the re-interment or disinterment by giving notice to the cemetery by registered mail, return receipt requested, not later than thirty days after the cemetery's notice is sent. If the cemetery receives timely notice of the objection, the re-interment or disinterment is subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code.(C) A cemetery shall re-inter or disinter the product of a fetal death if both surviving parents provide written consent for the re-interment or disinterment or if one parent consents and the cemetery does not receive timely notice of an objection under division (B) of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.08 | Sale of Land for Public Monument.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.09 | Plat and Use of Grounds.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.10 | Exemptions of Burial Grounds.

Effective: September 29, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 49 - 132nd General Assembly|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, 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.The lien for taxes against such burial grounds may be enforced in the same manner prescribed for abandoned lands under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code except that the burial ground may be transferred only to a municipal corporation, county, or township under division (D) of section 323.74 of the Revised Code. No burial ground that is otherwise exempt from sale or execution under this section shall be offered for sale at public auction.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.11 | Acting as Soldiers' Monumental Association.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.12 | Acceptance and Execution of Certain Trusts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.13 | Incorporation When Holding Land Within a Village.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Any association of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, who have purchased and improved lands for cemetery purposes by subscriptions of lot holders and the sale of lots, and who are acting through a board of trustees chosen by members of the association may, when the lands thus occupied have been brought or held within the corporate limits of a village subsequently to the time of their purchase and improvement, become incorporated for cemetery purposes, as though the lands held by the association were outside such corporate limits.Any association incorporated under this section as the successor of such an original association may, with the concurrence of the original association, take possession of, hold, and use, for cemetery purposes, all the property belonging to and held by the original association for such purposes.All rights of lot owners in the cemetery grounds of the original association are valid without reference to the form of conveyance issued to them by the trustees of the original association, and shall be reserved and assured to such lot owners upon an incorporation under this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.14 | Cemetery Policemen.

Effective: January 9, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 104th General Assembly|The trustees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, whether it is incorporated or unincorporated, and a board of township trustees having charge of township cemeteries, may appoint day and night watchmen for their grounds. All such watchmen, and all superintendents, gardeners, and agents of such company or association or of such board, who are stationed on the cemetery grounds may take and subscribe, before any judge of a county court or judge of a municipal court having jurisdiction in the township where the grounds are situated, an oath of office similar to the oath required by law of constables. Upon taking such oath, such watchmen, superintendents, gardeners, or agents shall have, within and adjacent to the cemetery grounds, all the powers of police officers.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.15 | Sale of Grounds by Certain Associations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.16 | Sinking Fund.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.17 | Transfer From One Association to Another.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.18 | Crematory Associations and Morgues.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.19 | Violation of Bylaw, Rule or Regulation - Detention or Arrest.

Effective: March 23, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 107 - 123rd General Assembly|(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.(B)(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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.20 | Charge for Delivery or Installation of Burial Vault.

Effective: October 29, 1953|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 269 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 1721.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 17 | Corporations-Partnerships|Chapter 1721 | Cemetery Associations|Section 1721.23 | Cancellation of Contract for Sale of Mausoleum Space.

Effective: January 1, 1993|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 733 - 119th General Assembly|(A) A contract for the sale of mausoleum space that is not ready for the entombment of human remains on the date of the contract shall stipulate that the buyer may cancel the contract if either of the following conditions apply:(1) The construction of the mausoleum has not begun within the time period specified in the contract, which shall be not later than three years after the date of the contract;(2) The certificate of use and occupancy has not been issued by the appropriate building official within the time period specified in the contract, which shall be not later than five years after the date of the contract.(B) The contract shall state in bold print the options available to the purchaser, his executor, or administrator in the event that the purchaser or a member of his immediate family dies before completion of the mausoleum. The options shall include, but not be limited to, providing entombment in a temporary space.(C) If a contract is canceled pursuant to division (A) of this section, the seller shall, within thirty days of cancellation, refund all moneys paid by the purchaser under the contract.