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MN Stat § 306.023 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.023 — Unused Public Cemetery; Transfer To Operating Public Cemetery.

306.023 UNUSED PUBLIC CEMETERY; TRANSFER TO OPERATING PUBLIC CEMETERY. Subdivision 1. Transfer authorized. A public cemetery association that owns a cemetery in which no interments have been made for 40 years may transfer the cemetery and real estate owned by it, together with funds or property that it possesses, to another public cemetery association or corporation serving the same community in the burial of the dead. Subd. 2. Method of transfer. To accomplish the transfer, the board of trustees of the transferring cemetery association shall adopt a resolution to that effect by an unanimous vote of the board of trustees. The chair or president of the board of trustees and the secretary may then execute the proper instruments and a deed in the name of the association to evidence the transfer. However, the transfer must first have been authorized by a majority vote of all members of the association, present and voting, at any regular meeting or at any special meeting called for that purpose, after written notice to the members specifying the time, place, and purpose of the meeting. If the association is an unincorporated association, a deed executed in the name of the association by the chair or president and the secretary or treasurer of the board of trustees is a valid conveyance of the lands of the association. Subd. 3. Acceptance of transfer. A public cemetery association or corporation serving the community in the burial of the dead may accept a transfer of a cemetery and its lands, property, and funds. Before a transfer is made, the public cemetery association to which the transfer is being made shall adopt a resolution agreeing to accept the cemetery and its real and personal property and funds and agreeing to operate, maintain, control, and manage the cemetery and administer its property and funds in the name of, and in accordance with the rules and laws governing the accepting public cemetery association. Subd. 4. Effect of transfer. After transfer, lot owners of the former association continue their ownership. They are entitled to the same rights and privileges with respect to their lots accorded to lot owners by the public cemetery association to which the transfer was made and are thereafter subject to all the rules and laws governing the public cemetery association. History:  1949 c 298 s 1; 1984 c 543 s 13; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.027 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.027 — Merger Of Cemeteries.

306.027 MERGER OF CEMETERIES. The ownership of a cemetery owned by a cemetery association or corporation, a municipality or town, a religious corporation, or any other body, or of a privately owned cemetery, may be merged with that of any other cemetery upon the terms set by its governing body, board of trustees, or owner. The surviving association, corporation, municipality, town, religious corporation, or other body or private person owning the cemeteries is subject to the laws appropriate for the particular type of cemetery ownership. No interests of third parties shall be impaired by the merger and after the merger lot owners of the former cemeteries shall continue their ownership and be entitled to the same rights and privileges concerning their lots that were accorded to them under the previous ownership. History:  1971 c 104 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.03 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.03 — Actuary; Records; Reports.

306.03 ACTUARY; RECORDS; REPORTS. Every such corporation, including any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation owning or operating a mausoleum or columbarium, shall, in addition to its ordinary corporate officers, annually appoint an actuary or provide by its bylaws that its secretary shall perform the duties of an actuary. The actuary shall keep a register of burials, entering (1) the date of burial, entombment, or cremation and (2) the name, age, sex, nativity, and cause of death of every person interred or cremated in the cemetery. These facts must be registered so far as they can be ascertained from the friends, attending physician, or undertaker in charge, and in case of a pauper, stranger, or criminal, from the public official directing the burial. The record shall be open to public inspection, and the actuary shall give the state commissioner of health and to local agents of a community health board as authorized under section 145A.04, upon their request, an accurate summary of the record during any specified year. History:  (7559) RL s 2937; 1933 c 65 s 1; 1953 c 699 s 13; 1955 c 4 s 7; 1969 c 275 s 11; 1977 c 305 s 45; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 309 s 24; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1; 1988 c 509 s 3; 2015 c 21 art 1 s 109
MN Stat § 306.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.04 — Failure To Keep Register; Forfeiture.

306.04 FAILURE TO KEEP REGISTER; FORFEITURE. Every actuary, or secretary performing the duties of an actuary, failing to keep a register of burials and to record in it all interments and cremations, shall forfeit not less than $2 nor more than $10 for every failure to keep a register or record the required information for the benefit of the school fund of the district in which the cemetery, mausoleum, or crematory is located. History:  (7560) RL s 2938; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1; 1988 c 509 s 4
MN Stat § 306.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.05 — Land Acquired For Cemetery Purposes.

306.05 LAND ACQUIRED FOR CEMETERY PURPOSES. Every such corporation may own, by purchase or gift, in the county where it is located and in an adjoining county, a maximum of 300 acres of land to be used and occupied exclusively for the burial or cremation of the dead and for other purposes necessary or proper to those purposes. Land required for that purpose must be surveyed and divided into lots of a size determined by the trustees, with the avenues, alleys, and walks they consider proper. A map of the survey must be filed with the county recorder of the county where the cemetery is located. When the corporation desires to enlarge its cemetery and cannot agree with the owners of the land desired for the cemetery, the land may be acquired under the power of eminent domain. However, public necessity, propriety, and convenience requiring the proposed enlargement, together with the boundaries of the cemetery, shall be first established and determined as issues of fact. History:  (7561) RL s 2939; 1941 c 240; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.06 — Conveyance Of Certain Lands To Cemetery Associations.

306.06 CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN LANDS TO CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS. When land located within a town or statutory city has before 1870 been devoted to and used by the public without restriction as a cemetery, the governing body of the town or city where the land is located may convey the land to a cemetery association organized to acquire the land for cemetery purposes. The governing body may decide the terms of the conveyance. History:  (7561-2) 1937 c 45 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.07 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.07 — Fraternal Corporations To Transfer Lands For Cemetery Purposes.

306.07 FRATERNAL CORPORATIONS TO TRANSFER LANDS FOR CEMETERY PURPOSES. A fraternal corporation organized under state law that acquired land upon which it established a cemetery before 1885 and that operated a cemetery after that date may convey to a corporation incorporated under state law to operate a public cemetery, any part of the cemetery that the corporation has not conveyed to individuals to be used for the burial of the dead. The corporation may also convey all its interest in any part of the cemetery that has previously been conveyed by the public cemetery association, without ownership or control of it, to individuals to be used for the burial of the dead. History:  (7561-3) 1937 c 207 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.08 — Lands To Be Subject To Rules Of Cemetery Associations.

306.08 LANDS TO BE SUBJECT TO RULES OF CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS. A conveyance by a fraternal corporation may transfer all right, title, and control in the acquired land that is devoted to cemetery purposes. Upon transfer, the public cemetery association to which the conveyance is made acquires and may exercise all of the rights, privileges, and control that the fraternal corporation previously had, and the cemetery and all premises constituting it are subject to the rules of the cemetery association. History:  (7561-4) 1937 c 207 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.09 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.09 — Sale Of Lots.

306.09 SALE OF LOTS. After the filing of a map under section 306.05 the trustees may sell and convey the lots designated on the map upon terms and conditions as they determine. Every conveyance of a lot must be expressly for burial purposes and no other and must be in the corporate name of the association and signed by its president or vice-president and by its treasurer or secretary. History:  (7562) RL s 2940; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.10 — Use Of Funds; Grants In Trust.

306.10 USE OF FUNDS; GRANTS IN TRUST. Proceeds from the sales of lots and personal property not invested as hereinafter provided shall be applied solely to pay debts incurred in purchasing cemetery grounds and property, to fence, improve, and beautify the grounds and the avenues leading to the grounds, and to defray the necessary expenses of their management and care. Real or personal property given to an association to maintain a monument or to keep or improve grounds within the cemetery must always be applied to the uses for which the property was given. History:  (7563) RL s 2941; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.11 — Vacancies; Annual Meeting; Report Of Trustees.

306.11 VACANCIES; ANNUAL MEETING; REPORT OF TRUSTEES. The certificate of incorporation may provide that vacancies among the associates must be filled by the remaining associates and that at all elections after the first the trustees shall be chosen from the associates or it may provide that they shall be chosen by and from the lot owners. When there are two or more owners of a lot they shall select one to represent them and to vote at an election. The trustees may fill any vacancy occurring in their own number for the unexpired term. Public notice of every annual election must be given in the manner prescribed in the bylaws. If for any reason the annual election is not held on the day fixed in the certificate of incorporation, the trustees may set another time, not more than 60 days after the date provided in the certificate, and must give public notice of that date. However, the term of office shall be the same as if the person were elected at the regularly scheduled annual election. At each annual meeting the trustees shall make a written report of their official acts and of the affairs of the association, with an account of all receipts and expenditures during the preceding year. History:  (7564, 7565) RL s 2942, 2943; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.111 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.111 — Vacancies Among Associates, Procedure For Filling.

306.111 VACANCIES AMONG ASSOCIATES, PROCEDURE FOR FILLING. Subdivision 1. Authorization. An incorporated public cemetery association without capital stock, organized under state law, which has acquired a burial site and sold lots in it and for which a majority of the associates of the corporation are deceased or have for three years or more not acted as associates, may by a meeting of the lot owners of the cemetery fill the vacancies among the associates. Subd. 2. Notice of meeting. Three or more lot owners of the cemetery may mail notice to all the lot owners known to them or whose addresses appear in the cemetery records that a meeting of the lot owners will be held not less than 14 days after the mailing at a time and place to be fixed by them and designated in the notice, in the county where the cemetery is located, for the purpose of filling the vacancies among the associates. Subd. 3. Meeting. The meeting must be held at the time and place provided in the notice. An owner of one or more lots in the cemetery may attend in person or by proxy and is entitled to one vote at that and all subsequent meetings of the lot owners. 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 fill the vacancies among the associates. A voice vote must be used unless otherwise ordered by those present at the meeting. A majority of the lot owners voting at the meeting shall elect. Subd. 4. Certificate; contents. The chair and the secretary of the meeting shall, within five days after the meeting is held, prepare a certificate that recites the facts required by subdivision 1. 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. However, if more than ten are present and voting, the names of ten of the voters 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 associates. The certificate must be recorded at length in the office of the county recorder in the county where the cemetery is located. The certificate or the record of it is prima facie evidence of all the facts stated in it that are required to be stated. Subd. 5. Powers of associates. The associates elected at the meeting of the lot owners shall exercise the powers of associates provided by law and the articles of incorporation of the association, and fill any vacancy in the board of directors or trustees of the association. History:  1959 c 7 s 1-5; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1984 c 543 s 14; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.12 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.12 — Action For Damages.

306.12 ACTION FOR DAMAGES. Every such cemetery association may recover, in its own name, all damages resulting from injury to or destruction of any stone, monument, building, fence, railing, or other work for protection or ornament, or any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of the cemetery. History:  (7566) RL s 2944; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.14 — Taxes; Roads; Special Assessments.

306.14 TAXES; ROADS; SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. Subdivision 1. Tax exemption. The lands and property of any such cemetery association are exempt from all public taxes and assessments, and shall not be sold on execution against the association or any lot owner. The owners of cemetery lots, their heirs or legal representatives, may hold the lots exempt from taxation so long as the lots are used for a cemetery. No road or street shall be laid through the cemetery, or any part of the lands of the association without the consent of the trustees. Subd. 2. Special assessments. Subdivision 1 does not exempt cemetery property owned or leased by a corporation, association, partnership, proprietorship, or other organization from any special assessment unless the corporation, association, partnership, proprietorship or other organization: (1) was formed for a purpose not involving pecuniary gain to its shareholders or members; and (2) pays no dividends or other pecuniary remuneration directly or indirectly to its shareholders or members as such. History:  (7568) RL s 2946; 1969 c 980 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.141 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.141 — Relocation.

306.141 RELOCATION. A cemetery may not be relocated without the consent of the trustees. History:   1993 c 100 s 1
MN Stat § 306.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.15 — Lots, Conveyance.

306.15 LOTS, CONVEYANCE. (a) When a lot in a cemetery, or an entombment or inurnment space in a mausoleum, has been sold or conveyed for burial purposes, the lot, entombment, or inurnment space is then inalienable, except as provided in this section. (b) The original purchaser of the lot, entombment, or inurnment space may sell or convey any part of it to the cemetery that is not actually occupied by interments or by entombed or inurned human remains. (c) A person who has inherited the lot, entombment, or inurnment space may sell or convey any part of it to the cemetery that is not actually occupied by interments or by entombed or inurned human remains. (d) When, by the consent of the owner, the lot, entombment, or inurnment space will be solely used by some other person as a family burial place, the owner may convey it to the person so using it. (e) There must be filed with the cemetery a copy of an agreement of sale signed and acknowledged by the owner (and spouse, if any) and the proposed purchaser, transferring title to the cemetery and requesting that the cemetery issue a new conveyance of the lot or space directly to the purchaser in consideration of the payment by the purchaser to the owner of a specified price which must not be more than the price that would be charged by the cemetery in its sale of a similar lot or space. Upon filing the agreement, a reasonable transfer and service charge of not more than $15 must be paid to the cemetery and the cemetery shall then promptly issue a conveyance of the lot or space to the designated purchaser. (f) The cemetery may use any of its funds to repurchase lots, entombments, or inurnment spaces, as provided herein, and may hold or again sell and convey them. History:  (7569) RL s 2947; 1943 c 253 s 1; 1951 c 492 s 1; 1967 c 623 s 1; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.155 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.155 — Correction Of Interment Errors.

306.155 CORRECTION OF INTERMENT ERRORS. Subdivision 1. Requirement. If the operator of a cemetery is informed or becomes aware that it has interred or permitted the interment of a body or remains in the wrong burial space, unless the interested parties have agreed otherwise in writing, it shall disinter the burial container wrongfully interred, identify the burial container, and reinter it in the proper burial space. The cemetery must give reasonable notice, in advance of the disinterment, to the person or persons legally entitled to control the body or remains of the deceased person and, if requested, the owner of the burial space. Subd. 2. Witnesses. At the time specified for the disinterment and reinterment, the cemetery must permit the person or persons legally entitled to control the body or remains and, if requested, the owner of the burial space to witness the disinterment and reinterment. Subd. 3. Costs. The cemetery must bear all costs of the disinterment and reinterment. History:  2003 c 48 s 1; 1Sp2003 c 23 s 1
MN Stat § 306.17 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.17 — Records Of Association.

306.17 RECORDS OF ASSOCIATION. All notices, with the proof of service or publication, and all resolutions adopted by the board of trustees of the association or public cemetery under section 306.16, subdivision 2, shall be made a part of the records of the association or public cemetery. When the deed or conveyance from the association or public cemetery to the lot owner appears in the record in the registry of deeds of the county, a copy of the resolution, certified to the secretary of the cemetery association or public cemetery, and a copy of the printed notice with the sheriff's return, shall be placed in the records of the registry of deeds. History:  (7572) 1921 c 167 s 3; 1949 c 163 s 2; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.18 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.18 — Description Of Lots In Notice And Proceedings.

306.18 DESCRIPTION OF LOTS IN NOTICE AND PROCEEDINGS. The notice and proceedings under sections 306.16 to 306.20, concerning cemetery lots, shall distinctly describe by metes and bounds the part of a cemetery lot unused for burial purposes. The association or public cemetery shall leave sufficient passage to and from any grave upon the lot, either by dedicated streets or alleys in the cemetery or by leaving unused a part of the cemetery sufficient for that purpose. History:  (7573) 1921 c 167 s 4; 1949 c 163 s 3; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.19 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.19 — Limitation.

306.19 LIMITATION. Sections 306.16 to 306.20 do not apply to a lot in a cemetery for which a perpetual care contract has been entered into between the cemetery association and the lot owner. History:  (7574) 1921 c 167 s 5; 1949 c 163 s 4; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1
MN Stat § 306.20 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 300 - 323A — Business, Social, And Charitable Organizations|Chapter 306 — Public Cemeteries|Section 306.20 — Reinvestment; Redemption.

306.20 REINVESTMENT; REDEMPTION. Compliance with sections 306.16 to 306.20 reinvests the association or municipality with, and divests the record owner and dependents of, the title to the part of the cemetery lot unused for burial purposes as though the lot had never been conveyed to any person. The association or municipality then owns the reclaimed part of the lot for its own purposes, subject to state law and to the charter, bylaws, rules, and regulations of the association or municipality. The association or municipality may not transfer the title of the lot for one year after the adoption of the resolution provided for in section 306.16. If during the one-year period a person entitled by state law to the cemetery lot pays to the association or public cemetery all the unpaid lot care, the expenses of the service of the notice provided for in section 306.16, and any additional amount due for lot care after the date of the notice under the bylaws, rules, and regulations of the cemetery association or public cemetery, and contracts and pays for the perpetual care of the lot, the association or cemetery shall reconvey the lot to the person lawfully entitled to it. History:  (7575) 1921 c 167 s 6; 1949 c 163 s 5; 1986 c 444; 1988 c 469 art 5 s 1