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MN Stat § 306.60 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.60 — Meeting And Election Of Officers.

306.60 MEETING AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The meeting must be held at the time and place mentioned in the notice. Any owner of one or more lots in the cemetery may be present in person or by proxy and is entitled to one vote at that and all subsequent meetings of the association. The meeting may be called to order by any lot owner and shall be organized by choosing in the usual manner a chair and a secretary. The meeting must then proceed to elect a president, secretary, treasurer, and three trustees. The officers shall hold their offices until the next succeeding annual meeting of the association and until their successors are elected and have qualified. The voting at the meeting shall be by voice vote, unless otherwise ordered by those present at the meeting. A majority shall elect. History:  (7597) 1909 c 165 s 3; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.61 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.61 — Certificate; Record; Effect.

306.61 CERTIFICATE; RECORD; EFFECT. Within five days after the meeting is held, the chair and the secretary of the meeting shall prepare a certificate that recites the existence of the facts mentioned in section 306.58. It must also state that the meeting was held, giving the names of the chair and the secretary and the names of the lot owners present and voting. If more than ten are present and voting, the names of ten are sufficient, but in that case the number of lot owners present and voting must be stated. The certificate must also give the names of the persons elected as trustees and other officers at the meeting and must be recorded at length in the office of the county recorder for the county in which the cemetery is located. The certificate or the record of the certificate is prima facie evidence of all the facts stated in it that are required to be stated. History:  (7598) 1909 c 165 s 4; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.62 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.62 — Powers And Duties Of Officers.

306.62 POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS. As soon as the certificate is recorded under section 306.61, the officers elected at the meeting under section 306.60 may convey and execute deeds for lots in the cemetery for cemetery purposes, and have the same powers and duties and are subject to the same rights and liabilities as if they had been elected in the manner originally provided by the law under which the association was organized or pursuant to its articles or bylaws. After the election provided for in section 306.60 all meetings must be held and all affairs of the association conducted in the manner provided by law and under the original articles of incorporation of the association. History:  (7599) 1909 c 165 s 5; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.63 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.63 — Sale Of Certain Real Estate.

306.63 SALE OF CERTAIN REAL ESTATE. Any cemetery corporation incorporated under state law before April 19, 1911, may sell and convey, for other than burial or cemetery purposes, any real estate lawfully acquired by it that is not suitable for cemetery purposes and that has not been platted for those purposes. History:  (7600) 1911 c 296 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.64 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.64 — Real Estate, When Sold.

306.64 REAL ESTATE, WHEN SOLD. Any public cemetery corporation incorporated under state law before or after April 23, 1913, that has acquired more than 100 acres of land may sell and convey, for other than burial or cemetery purposes, any real estate in excess of that 100 acres. The sale must not include land in which any interments have been made. Any sale must be approved by the unanimous vote of all the trustees of the corporation. History:  (7601) 1913 c 444 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.65 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.65 — Plats Filed, Cities Of Over 50,000.

306.65 PLATS FILED, CITIES OF OVER 50,000. If a cemetery corporation organized under state law maintains a cemetery of more than 80 acres in a city in this state with a population of more than 50,000, the corporation shall file in the office of the county recorder of the county in which its cemetery is located a plat showing the area and location of the cemetery. History:  (7601-1) 1911 c 129 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.66 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.66 — Subdivision Or Rearrangement Of Cemeteries.

306.66 SUBDIVISION OR REARRANGEMENT OF CEMETERIES. The cemetery corporation mentioned in section 306.65 may from time to time subdivide or rearrange its cemetery as necessary in the conduct of the business, but no plat of the subdivision or rearrangement may interfere with the rights and privileges of the lot owners of the cemetery without their consent, and the plat need not be filed in the office of the county recorder. A plat of the subdivision or rearrangement must be kept for public inspection at the cemetery. Cement or other nondestructible markers at least three inches in diameter and at least eight inches in length, with one of the markers showing the number of the lot, must be placed at the corners of each lot of the subdivision or rearrangement. History:  (7601-2) 1911 c 129 s 2; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.67 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.67 — Application.

306.67 APPLICATION. Sections 306.65 and 306.66 do not apply to cities with charters adopted under the Minnesota Constitution. History:  (7601-3) 1911 c 129 s 3; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.68 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.68 — Reorganization Of Certain Associations.

306.68 REORGANIZATION OF CERTAIN ASSOCIATIONS. Subdivision 1. Authorization. A cemetery association organized under state law before April 25, 1913, that does not have a capital stock and that has acquired a burial site and sold lots from it may reorganize as provided in subdivision 2 if the management of the association is confined to the original members of the association either by the statutes then in force or by the certificate of organization. Subd. 2. Call for meeting. Any two or more of the original members of the association, or if all the original members are deceased then any three or more of the lot owners in the burial site, may call a meeting of the association. The meeting must be held at a time and place designated in the notice in the city nearest to the cemetery site for the purpose of reorganizing the association. The notice must be published for two successive weeks in a legal newspaper printed in the place in which the meeting is to be held and must give at least 30 days' notice of the meeting. Subd. 3. Articles of reassociation. At the time and place mentioned in the notice those present shall organize and proceed to prepare and adopt, or authorize to be prepared and adopted, articles of reassociation conforming to the requirements of state law for the organization of public cemetery associations. The articles must name the first board of trustees and other officers as the meeting determines. A majority of the trustees and officers must be named and elected from the members of the old association if there are sufficient survivors living in the county where the site is located or in adjoining counties. Subd. 4. Powers and duties. The trustees and officers, as soon as the certificate of reassociation is adopted and recorded with the county recorder in the county where the cemetery is located, have the powers, duties, rights, and liabilities provided by state law pertaining to cemetery associations. History:  (7602, 7603, 7604, 7605) 1913 c 526 s 1-4; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.69 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.69 — Certain Corporations May Amend Articles.

306.69 CERTAIN CORPORATIONS MAY AMEND ARTICLES. The board of trustees, board of administration, or other governing body of a religious corporation that has established and is maintaining a cemetery of more than five acres in any county of this state with a population of at least 225,000 and not more than 350,000 may by resolution adopted by at least a two-thirds vote of its members at any authorized meeting of the board amend its certificates or articles of incorporation as follows: (1) by providing for the management and conduct of the affairs of the cemetery by a board of associates and prescribing the number composing the board of associates, the title by which they are designated, the time and manner of their election, by whom they are elected, their term of office, their powers and duties, and for the division of the board into classes, if desired, concerning the time for which the trustees hold office; (2) by specifying whether the board of associates is elected by the owners of lots in the cemetery, either from among themselves, from among the board of trustees, board of administration, or other governing body of the religious corporation, by the board of associates from their own number, from among the lot owners in the cemetery, or from the board of trustees or other governing body of the religious corporation; (3) by specifying the names and addresses of the first board of associates and their term of office; (4) by providing that any vacancy in the board of associates may be filled by the board of associates for the unexpired term; (5) by providing that the board of associates may elect its own officers and that the duties of the officers may be defined by the bylaws of the board; (6) by providing that the board of associates may adopt bylaws and rules and regulations concerning the management and conduct of the cemetery; (7) by providing that the board of associates may establish a permanent care and improvement fund, the income from which is devoted to the care, maintenance, and improvement of the cemetery; (8) by providing that the board of associates has the control of the permanent care and improvement fund and all other trust funds donated for the permanent care of particular burial plots, and has authority to appoint trustees of the funds from among their number, or to appoint as trustee one or more trust companies organized under the laws of this state; or (9) by any other lawful provision defining and regulating the powers or business of the board of associates, and the powers and duties of its officers, trustees, and lot owners. History:  (7606) 1921 c 422 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.70 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.70 — Certificate Of Amended Articles To Be Recorded.

306.70 CERTIFICATE OF AMENDED ARTICLES TO BE RECORDED. The board of trustees or other governing body of the religious corporation shall include the resolution in a certificate executed and acknowledged by the corporation's president and secretary or other presiding and recording officers under the corporate seal of the corporation. The certificate must be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the association's cemetery is located. History:  (7607) 1921 c 422 s 2; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1; 1988 c 682 s 20
MN Stat § 306.71 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.71 — Right And Duties After Amendment.

306.71 RIGHT AND DUTIES AFTER AMENDMENT. A religious corporation amending its certificates or articles of incorporation under sections 306.69 to 306.72 and providing for the management and conduct of its cemetery as provided in those sections, is then considered to be a private cemetery association having the rights, exemptions, privileges, duties, and liabilities that are provided by law concerning private cemetery associations, without regard to the fact that the cemetery is established by a religious corporation. History:  (7608) 1921 c 422 s 3; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.72 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.72 — Association, How Governed.

306.72 ASSOCIATION, HOW GOVERNED. A religious corporation amending its certificates or articles of incorporation under sections 306.69 to 306.72 and establishing a permanent care and improvement fund is, as to that fund, subject to sections 306.76 to 306.85 to the extent that those sections are consistent with sections 306.69 to 306.72. History:  (7609) 1921 c 422 s 4; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.73 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.73 — Amendment Of Articles Of Incorporation.

306.73 AMENDMENT OF ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION. The board of trustees of a cemetery association organized under state law that has established and is maintaining a public cemetery in this state may, by resolution adopted by at least a two-thirds vote of its members at any authorized meeting of the board, amend its certificate or articles of incorporation in any or all of the following particulars: (1) by providing for a board of associates, the number composing the board, the time and manner of their election and by whom they are elected, their term of office, their powers and duties and for the division of the board into classes, if desired, concerning the time for which the trustees hold office; (2) by specifying the names and addresses of the members of the first board of associates and their term of office; (3) by providing that the management of the affairs of the association may be vested in a board of not more than nine trustees, and that the trustees may be divided into classes concerning the time for which the trustees hold office, or that only one trustee need be elected each year; (4) by providing the time and manner of election of the trustees and specifying whether the trustees are to be elected by the owners of lots in the cemetery of the association, either from among themselves or from among the board of associates, by the existing trustees from among lot owners or from among a board of associates, or by the board of associates from their own number or from the retiring trustees; (5) by providing that a vacancy in the board of trustees, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, may be filled by the board of trustees for the unexpired term; (6) by specifying the names and addresses of the first board of trustees and the time for which each member holds office; (7) by providing that the trustees may elect officers of the association and that the duties of the officers may be defined by the bylaws; (8) by providing that the trustees may adopt bylaws and rules and regulations concerning the cemetery of the association; (9) by providing that the duration of the association is perpetual or for a fixed period of time; (10) by any other lawful provision defining and regulating the power or business of the association and the powers and duties of its officers, trustees, associates, and lot owners. History:  (7610) 1915 c 304 s 1; 1939 c 21; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.74 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.74 — Certificate Of Amendment.

306.74 CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT. The trustees shall include the resolution in a certificate executed and acknowledged by its president and secretary or other presiding and recording officers, under the corporate seal of the corporation. The certificate must be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the cemetery of the association is located. History:  (7611) 1915 c 304 s 2; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1; 1988 c 682 s 21
MN Stat § 306.75 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.75 — Application.

306.75 APPLICATION. Sections 306.73 to 306.75 also apply to the cemetery associations mentioned in section 306.73 maintaining cemeteries in cities existing under a charter framed according to the Minnesota Constitution. However, those sections do not apply to private cemeteries nor to cemeteries established by religious corporations. History:  (7612, 7613) 1915 c 304 s 3,4; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.76 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.76 — Permanent Care And Improvement Fund Maintained By Certain Associations.

306.76 PERMANENT CARE AND IMPROVEMENT FUND MAINTAINED BY CERTAIN ASSOCIATIONS. Every cemetery association organized under state law that maintains a public cemetery in or adjacent to a city with a population of more than 50,000, shall provide for the establishment of a permanent fund, the income from which must be devoted to the care, maintenance, and improvement of the cemetery. The fund must be known as the permanent care and improvement fund of the cemetery association. History:  (7614) 1917 c 95 s 1; 1927 c 198 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.762 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.762 — Permanent Retention Of Records.

306.762 PERMANENT RETENTION OF RECORDS. Subdivision 1. Required records. Any cemetery association and any person, firm, partnership, association, and corporation owning or operating a mausoleum or columbarium, or constructing or selling space in a mausoleum or columbarium to be built, required to deposit trust money in a permanent care and improvement fund must, in Minnesota, permanently retain records of the trust account. The records of the trust account must include the name of the person purchasing the cemetery lot or burial space, the name of the living representative of that person if one was designated, and the location of the money including any identifying numbers and the name and address of the institution in which the money is held. Subd. 2. Penalty. Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation knowingly violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for a second offense shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. Subd. 3. Exception. This section shall not apply to cemeteries, mausoleums, or columbariums owned and operated by a municipality, church, religious corporation, or religious association. History:   1988 c 509 s 7
MN Stat § 306.77 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.77 — Appointment Of Trust Company.

306.77 APPOINTMENT OF TRUST COMPANY. The board of trustees of an association mentioned in section 306.76 shall, by a resolution adopted by a vote of at least two-thirds of its members, appoint one or more trust companies organized under state law, or a board consisting of at least three individuals, to act as trustees of the permanent care and improvement fund. If more than one trust company is appointed, the board of trustees shall, from time to time, apportion all money available for the fund between these trust companies in the proportion that the board determines. The appointment must be evidenced by a written instrument executed by the proper officers of the association under its corporate seal. Each trust company and the appointed individuals shall qualify as trustee by filing a written acceptance of the appointment with the secretary of the association. All instruments of appointment, any revocation of appointment, and the written acceptances must be recorded at length by the secretary of the association in its corporate records. The appointment of any trustee may be revoked by the board of trustees of the association at any time by a vote of two-thirds of its members. No trustee of the fund is liable as a trustee except for neglect or willful default in the discharge of duties. Seven days before any portion of the principal of a permanent care and improvement fund is transferred or withdrawn from its present location, the board of trustees must, in writing, notify the county auditor of such activity and of the destination of the funds. Any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation knowingly violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and for a second offense shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. History:  (7615) 1917 c 95 s 2; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1; 1988 c 509 s 8
MN Stat § 306.773 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.773 — Investment Of Fund Of Cemetery Associations.

306.773 INVESTMENT OF FUND OF CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS. Subdivision 1. Authorization. Every cemetery association organized under state law that provides for a permanent care and improvement fund administered by one or more trust companies acting as trustees of the fund under section 306.77, may adopt a resolution as provided in this subdivision. When the principal of the fund remaining after lawful withdrawals equals more than $350,000, the association may adopt a resolution by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of its board of trustees at any authorized meeting of the board, authorizing the trust companies acting as trustees in investing, reinvesting, exchanging, and managing the fund, to acquire any kind of investment, including, but not by way of limitation, bonds, debentures, and other corporate obligations, and corporate stocks, that an ordinarily prudent person of discretion and intelligence who is a trustee of the property of others would acquire as the trustee. Subd. 2. Trust limitations inapplicable. The trustees may invest the trust property according to this section, notwithstanding any contrary limitation or condition contained in the trust instrument. History:  1957 c 4 s 1; 1969 c 13 s 1; 1969 c 964 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1; 1988 c 509 s 9