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NH Rev Stat § 289:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:7 - Powers and Duties.

    289:7 Powers and Duties. –||I. Except in those municipalities in which other provisions have been made by a general or special act of the legislature, all cemetery trustees in the state shall:||(a) Adopt bylaws and regulations for their transaction of business and for the establishment and management of all municipal cemeteries within their responsibility.||(b) Prepare an annual budget indicating what support and maintenance of the municipal public cemeteries will be required out of public funds for submission to the appropriate agency of the municipality. A separate budget request shall be submitted for planning and establishment of a new public cemetery and for capital improvements or expansion of an existing public cemetery.||(c) Expend all moneys raised and appropriated by the municipality for cemetery purposes. Such funds shall be maintained in the general fund and paid in the same manner that funds of other municipal departments are paid.||(d) Expend income from all trust funds for cemetery purposes in accordance with the conditions of each donation or bequest accepted by the municipality. Such trust funds shall be held in the custody and under the management of the trustees of trust funds. The trust income shall be transferred to the cemetery trustees by the trustees of trust funds in response to vouchers executed by the cemetery trustees, if the requested funds are available. Such trust fund income shall not be commingled with the moneys raised and appropriated by the municipality.||(e) Prepare deeds of cemetery lots for the governing body to sign.||II. Cemetery trustees may appoint a cemetery custodian or sexton who shall not be a trustee and who shall be responsible to the cemetery trustees for supervising work done in the cemeteries.|||Source. 1994, 318:2. 1995, 62:3, eff. July 8, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:8 - Enforcement.

    289:8 Enforcement. –||Any person designated as a cemetery trustee failing to comply with the provisions of RSA 289:7 shall be guilty of a violation. Any other person who violates this chapter or any regulation established under the authority of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:9 - Use of Trust Funds.

    289:9 Use of Trust Funds. –||Cemetery corporations and the trust fund trustees of municipalities may take and hold funds in trust, and may apply the income of the trust to the improvement, watering, or embellishment of the cemetery, or to the care, preservation, or embellishment of any lot or its appurtenances.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:10 - Investments.

    289:10 Investments. –||Cemetery corporations holding funds in trust as provided in RSA 289:9 may establish, maintain, and operate common trust funds as provided in RSA 31:27-30.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:11 - Accounting.

    289:11 Accounting. –||Whenever any cemetery corporation shall take and hold trust funds according to the provisions of RSA 289:9, such corporation shall keep in its books an account of all funds received and held by it in the same manner as required of municipalities, and the account of any such fund shall be open to inspection by any person having an interest in the proper administration of the trust.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:12 - Reports.

    289:12 Reports. –||A copy of the annual financial report of such corporations shall be filed with the attorney general, unless otherwise required by law to file such a report with any town, city, county, or state agency.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:13 - Cemetery Association Termination.

    289:13 Cemetery Association Termination. –||Any cemetery laid out by an individual or corporation and located within the municipality, in which all lots have been sold and for the care of which trust funds are held by the municipality, may be deeded to the municipality with no implied financial liability to the municipality for the maintenance of the cemetery over and above the trust fund income, provided the municipality votes to accept such cemetery transfer. Municipalities may raise and appropriate additional funds for the care of such cemeteries. Upon the transfer of the title to the cemetery, the municipal cemetery trustees shall have the sole management responsibility for the cemetery.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:14 - Right of Way to Private Burial Ground.

    289:14 Right of Way to Private Burial Ground. –||Any person wishing to have a temporary right of entry over private land in order to enter a private burial ground enclosure to which there is no public right of way may apply in writing to the selectmen of a town or the mayor of a city stating the reason for such request, which may include the maintenance, repair, and preservation of the burial ground, and the period of time for which such right is to be exercised. The applicant shall also notify in writing the owner or occupier of the land over which the right of way is desired and obtain the written permission of the owner. The selectmen or mayor, in the exercise of discretion and in consultation with the cemetery trustees, may issue a permit for such temporary right of entry designating the particular place where the land may be crossed. The owner or occupier of the land may recommend the place of crossing which, if reasonable, shall be the place designated by the selectmen or mayor. The person exercising the right of entry shall complete the work on the cemetery and restore the right of way to its original condition, if it is disturbed.|||Source. 1994, 318:2. 2011, 97:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:14-a - Maintenance, Repair, and Preservation of Burial Grounds.

    289:14-a Maintenance, Repair, and Preservation of Burial Grounds. –||I. Any person or organization interested in caring for a burial ground which has not been maintained and the owner of which is unknown, or whose present address in unknown, may petition the selectmen, town council, mayor, or cemetery trustees for permission to clean, maintain, restore, and preserve that burial ground at the person's or organization's own expense. Upon approval of this petition on any conditions deemed appropriate, including the permission of the owner of the surrounding property, the selectmen, town council, mayor, or cemetery trustees shall require the person or organization to place an advertisement in a local newspaper providing notice that the burial ground is to be entered and that work is to be done, and notifying persons with a property interest in this burial ground who have objections to come forward by a date certain.||II. A petition under paragraph I may be granted notwithstanding the fact that the burial ground has not been declared abandoned pursuant to the procedure in RSA 289:20.||III. Any city, town, or public body shall be immune from civil liability in any action brought on the basis of any act or omission by any person who voluntarily and without compensation undertakes to maintain or to repair any burying ground.||IV. No private landowner permitting access over his or her property to a burial ground for the purpose of voluntary maintenance or repair of the burial ground shall be held civilly liable for any breach of duty resulting in injury to the person or damage to the property of those seeking to repair or maintain the cemetery.||V. After approval and notice required under RSA 635:6, II, any marker, gate, or other material removed for repair shall be stored and kept safely in a manner determined by the selectmen, town council, mayor, or cemetery trustees. Upon approval of the selectmen, town council, mayor, or cemetery trustees, a marker, gate, or other material deemed to be at risk of irreparable damage or loss may be placed permanently in a safe facility and the fact of its removal or replacement made visible in the cemetery or in public records.|||Source. 2011, 97:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2012.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:14-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:14-b - Historic Burial Grounds and Cemeteries.

    289:14-b Historic Burial Grounds and Cemeteries. –||Historic burial grounds and cemeteries, including their markers, walls, gates, and other associated and identifying features and artifacts, are meaningful to the history, historic landscape, cultural, religious, craft and architectural traditions of the state; were established prior to January 1, 1950; and are consistent with the definitions of "burial ground" and "cemetery" established in RSA 289:1. Cemetery trustees may, in cooperation with non-governmental organizations, provide information relative to the location of historic burial grounds and cemeteries to such organizations for the inclusion in their online and other databases accessible for public use.|||Source. 2018, 3:1, eff. Apr. 9, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:15 - Discontinuance.

    289:15 Discontinuance. –||Whenever there is a public necessity for the discontinuance of any municipal cemetery and the removal of the remains of persons buried in such cemetery, the cemetery may be discontinued by a 3/4 vote of the legal voters present and voting at any town meeting held for the purpose, or by 3/4 of each board of the city councils present and voting.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:16 - Reinterment.

    289:16 Reinterment. –||The governing body may, at the expense of the municipality, disinter all the remains of persons buried in such cemetery and reinter the same in the unoccupied part of another cemetery within the municipality, such reinterment to be in the place designated by the nearest surviving relatives of the deceased persons or, in the absence of such surviving relative, by the cemetery trustees. Such removal and reinterment shall be done prudently and with proper care and attention.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:17 - Removal of Monuments.

    289:17 Removal of Monuments. –||The monuments, gravestones, and other appurtenances attached to the graves shall be carefully removed and properly set up at the place of reinterment with as little injury as the nature of the case will admit. In case of injury to any monument, gravestone, or appurtenance, the damages shall be assessed by the governing body in the same manner and with the same right of appeal as in the case of alteration of the grade of highways.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:18 - Forfeiture Procedures.

    289:18 Forfeiture Procedures. –||I. Whenever a burial space or spaces in any cemetery subject to the provisions of this subdivision have remained unused for a period of 50 years, and the owner has not improved such space or spaces by causing a monument, gravestone, or other permanent appurtenance to be placed on the burial space, the person, corporate manager, or cemetery trustees having jurisdiction over such cemetery may institute proceedings for the termination and forfeiture of the rights and interests of such owner. All purchase contracts for burial spaces executed after August 7, 1994, shall include a notice that this procedure may be invoked in the future.||II. Whenever such person, corporate manager, or board of trustees determines that the conditions stated in paragraph I have been met, then they may send to the owner a notice of the intent to terminate and forfeit the owner's rights, served on the owner personally by a competent person or sent by certified mail with return receipt requested to the owner's last known address.||III. When the owner receives the forfeiture notice, the owner may notify the cemetery management of continued intent to use the space, in which case this procedure shall be cancelled, or the owner may return the space to the cemetery and receive in compensation the same amount the owner paid for the space, less any portion of the original purchase price that was specified for inclusion in a perpetual care trust fund.||IV. If no response is received from the owner for 60 days, the cemetery management may advertise in a paper of local distribution for information regarding the present whereabouts of the owner. If information is forth-coming, the notification process shall be repeated using the new address information. If no information is received, the original purchase contract may be voided and the space sold to a new owner. Any owner contacting the cemetery management after the space has been resold shall be reimbursed the amount he originally paid, including the portion set aside for perpetual care.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:19 - Neglected Burial Ground.

    289:19 Neglected Burial Ground. –||Whenever a burial ground within the boundaries of the town has been neglected for a period of 20 years or more, the municipality may declare it abandoned for purposes of preservation, maintenance or restoration.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:20 - Procedure.

    289:20 Procedure. –||To declare a burial ground abandoned:||I. The municipality shall place an advertisement in at least one newspaper having general distribution in the municipality and surrounding area. The advertisement shall state the intent of the municipality, identifying the burial ground by name, if known, and by names and dates of the oldest stones in the burial ground, with a request for any direct descendent to contact the town selectmen's office, the town manager, or mayor, as applicable. If the burial ground contains no stones with legible inscriptions, the site may be identified by a detailed description of its location.||II. Not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days after the notice of the intent has been published, the notice shall be read at a regularly scheduled selectmen's meeting or in the case of a city, a city council meeting.||III. If any descendants were located and grant permission, or if no descendants were located, then, after a public hearing, the municipality may declare the burial ground abandoned by a majority vote of the selectmen or city councilmen present and voting.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:21 - Rights and Responsibilities.

    289:21 Rights and Responsibilities. –||Any burial ground declared abandoned under these provisions shall become a municipal cemetery for management purposes and shall be managed by the cemetery trustees, who shall assume all the authorization and rights of natural lineal descendants.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:22 - Stone Rubbings.

    289:22 Stone Rubbings. –||No person shall make gravestone rubbings in any municipal cemetery or burial ground without first obtaining the written permission of the town selectmen or the mayor of a city or designee. Before granting such permission, the selectmen or mayor will ascertain to the best of their ability that the person making the request knows the proper precautions to be taken and the proper materials to be used for this activity. The town selectmen or city mayor or their designee shall notify the cemetery trustees of the request and its disposition. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 289:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 289 - Cemeteries|Section 289:23 - Other Unauthorized Acts.

    289:23 Other Unauthorized Acts. –||All other unauthorized conduct under RSA 635:6 and 635:7 regarding the abuse of cemeteries shall be penalized as provided in RSA 635:8.|||Source. 1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:1 - Death Records.

    290:1 Death Records. –||Whenever a person shall die, the physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant attending at the last sickness shall complete and deliver to the funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent under RSA 290:17 or shall complete electronically and forward immediately to the division of vital records administration, a death record, duly signed, setting forth, as far as may be, the facts required by the department of state, division of vital records administration pursuant to RSA 5-C:63. The cause or causes of death shall be printed or typed on all records required to be furnished under this section. The funeral director, next-of-kin, or designated agent shall transmit electronically the record of death to the division of vital records administration and the certifying physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant shall then electronically complete the cause of death information into the transmitted record.|||Source. 1935, 95:1. RL 168:46. 1949, 98:4. RSA 290:1. 1955, 95:2. 1977, 530:3. 1983, 291:1. 1995, 310:181. 1997, 325:10. 1999, 62:1. 2002, 97:2. 2003, 319:65. 2005, 268:6. 2007, 215:15. 2009, 54:5. 2015, 140:15, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:1-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:1-a - Fetal Death Records.

    290:1-a Fetal Death Records. –||Whenever a fetal death shall occur, the attending physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant shall fill out a fetal death record. This will be solely a statistical report.|||Source. 1977, 530:4. 1997, 325:10. 2007, 215:16. 2009, 54:5. 2015, 140:16, eff. Jan. 1, 2016.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:1-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:1-b - Pronouncement of Death by Registered Nurses.

    290:1-b Pronouncement of Death by Registered Nurses. –||If an anticipated death occurs in a hospital, a nursing home, a private home served by a home health care provider licensed under RSA 151, an assisted living residence as defined in RSA 161-J:2, II, or a hospice, the registered nurse attending at the last sickness may pronounce the person dead and release the body to the funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent after certifying the fact of death and completing the death record by hand or other approved electronic process. If a contagious disease is known to be present at the time of death, that fact shall be indicated on the death record in accordance with RSA 5-C:62.|||Source. 1986, 26:1. 1989, 10:1. 1995, 310:181. 1997, 325:10. 1999, 62:2. 2003, 319:66. 2005, 268:7. 2007, 90:6, eff. June 11, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:2 - Repealed by 1977, 530:7, eff. Sept. 13, 1977.

    290:2 Repealed by 1977, 530:7, eff. Sept. 13, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 290:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:2-a - Release of Body.

    290:2-a Release of Body. –||No dead body of a human being shall be removed from a hospital, a nursing home, a private home served by a home health care provider licensed under RSA 151, or a hospice without a pronouncement of death certified by hand or other approved electronic process by a physician or a registered nurse in accordance with RSA 290:1-b, including the time and date of death. Whenever a contagious disease is involved, the death record shall so state before the body shall be released from the facility.|||Source. 1986, 22:1. 1989, 10:2. 1997, 325:11, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:3 - Burial Permits, Obtaining.

    290:3 Burial Permits, Obtaining. –||It shall be the duty of the funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent under RSA 290:17 to add to the death record the date and place of burial, and having certified the same by hand or other approved electronic process, to forward it to the division of vital records administration or as otherwise directed by the registrar of vital records, and to obtain a permit for burial from the division of vital records administration in accordance with RSA 5-C:67. In case of a contagious or infectious disease the record shall be completed and transmitted immediately.|||Source. 1935, 95:1. RL 168:49. 1949, 98:5. RSA 290:3. 1977, 530:5. 1992, 66:7. 1995, 310:181, 182. 1997, 325:12. 1999, 62:3. 2003, 319:67. 2005, 268:8, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:3-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:3-a - Burial Permit for a Fetus.

    290:3-a Burial Permit for a Fetus. –||Whenever it shall be determined that a dead fetus will be disposed of by means of burial or cremation, the burial permit will be issued in accordance with the rules and regulations of the department of health and human services.|||Source. 1977, 530:6. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:3-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:3-b - Emergency Burial Permit.

    290:3-b Emergency Burial Permit. –||The division of vital records administration, department of state, may issue an emergency burial permit in an emergency as defined by RSA 5-C:70.|||Source. 1986, 22:2. 1992, 66:8. 1995, 310:181, 182. 1997, 325:13. 2003, 319:68. 2005, 268:9, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 290:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXVI - Cemeteries; Burials; Dead Bodies|Title 290 - Burials and Disinterments|Section 290:4 - Repealed by 1997, 325:22, VII, eff. Aug. 22, 1997.

    290:4 Repealed by 1997, 325:22, VII, eff. Aug. 22, 1997. –|