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MO Rev Stat § 214.180 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.180 - Shall keep record of receipts and disbursements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.180. Shall keep record of receipts and disbursements. — The clerk of the commission shall keep in a separate record book all receipts and disbursements of each and every trust fund or funds and a detailed account of the management of the same. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15271)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14062
MO Rev Stat § 214.190 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.190 - Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition — exception.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.190. Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition — exception. — Lands or property, set apart as burial grounds, either for public or private use, and so recorded in the recorder's office of the county where such lands are situated, or any burial ground that may have been used as such for ten years shall not be subject to sale on execution, to dower, nor to compulsory partition; provided, that the lands so appropriated and set apart as a private burial ground shall not exceed one acre in area or one hundred dollars in value; and provided further, that nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to exempt any such burial ground or cemetery property from being liable for special assessments for street improvements, when such assessment is levied by an incorporated city in this state. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15266)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14057; 1919 § 1086; 1909 § 1308
MO Rev Stat § 214.200 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.200 - Title, how obtained to lands used for burial purposes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.200. Title, how obtained to lands used for burial purposes. — When lands shall have been continuously used as a public or private burial ground for a period of ten years or more and such land has not been deeded to the public for the purpose of a burial ground, a title may be obtained to such lands in the way and manner as is provided for the enlargement of burial grounds in section 214.080. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15276)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14067; 1919 § 1089; 1909 § 1311
MO Rev Stat § 214.209 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.209 - Abandonment of burial site, rights revert to cemetery.

Effective - 28 Aug 2001   214.209. Abandonment of burial site, rights revert to cemetery. — 1. After a period of seventy-five years since the last recorded activity on a burial site and after a reasonable search for heirs and beneficiaries, the burial site shall be abandoned and the right of ownership in the burial site shall revert to the private or public cemetery, after the cemetery has met the requirements of this section.  2. A reasonable search for heirs and beneficiaries pursuant to this section shall include sending a letter of notice to the last known address of the record property owner; and publishing a copy of the description of the abandoned burial site in a newspaper qualified to publish public notices as provided in chapter 493, published in the county of the record property owner's last known address, for three weeks; and if no person proves ownership of the burial site within one year after such publication, the burial site shall be deemed abandoned.  3. If persons with a legitimate claim to the abandoned burial site present themselves after the abandoned burial site has been used or sold by the private or public cemetery, the person's claim shall be settled by providing an equal burial site in an equivalent location to the burial site that reverted to the private or public cemetery. ­­-------- (L. 2001 H.B. 567)
MO Rev Stat § 214.210 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.210 - Certain cities may accept or acquire cemetery lands.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.210. Certain cities may accept or acquire cemetery lands. — Any city in this state now or hereafter containing a population of three hundred thousand or more, and less than six hundred thousand inhabitants according to the now or then last preceding United States census may, for the purpose of sections 214.210 to 214.230 by ordinance accept or take over by gift or donation any land within said city used for cemetery purposes, with or without adjoining or connected land, of any cemetery corporation or of any unincorporated cemetery association; or may likewise acquire, accept and take over by gift or donation a majority of the shares of the members of any said cemetery corporation or association holding, or having lands so used, sufficient and in manner to give such city a majority control of such corporation or association and, through it, control of management of its such lands; or under its power of eminent domain, to be exercised in the method and manner of procedure as provided by statutes or by the charter of the city for acquiring land for park purposes, any such city may acquire any such lands, in whole or in part, for the purposes expressed in sections 214.210 to 214.230. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15282)
MO Rev Stat § 214.220 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.220 - Lands or shares subject to all vested rights.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.220. Lands or shares subject to all vested rights. — Any such acquisition of lands or shares shall be subject to all vested rights of individual owners of the lots or allotted burial spaces in any such cemetery to continue lawful use thereof for burial purposes and to have the graves, burial vaults, gravestones and markers and monuments therein remain inviolate, subject to the right and power of the city to preserve, care for and reasonably keep the same without disturbing the remains of the dead therein interred; provided, that when and after the continuing or making of new or additional interments in any such cemetery may become detrimental or a menace to the health and safety of the inhabitants of said city residing or carrying on business or industry at places adjoining or near to such cemetery, the city may, by ordinance, declare further interments in any such cemetery to be a public nuisance and prohibit further interments therein; provided further, that upon and after any such acquisition no further or additional grants, sales or gifts of lots or burial spaces or burial rights or privileges in any such cemetery or adjoining or connected lands of such cemetery corporation or association shall be made; and new or additional burials therein shall neither be promoted or encouraged. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15283)
MO Rev Stat § 214.230 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.230 - City may acquire money or funds, how.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.230. City may acquire money or funds, how. — Every such city, so acquiring any such cemetery lands or shares and control of such cemetery corporation or association, may likewise at the same time, or at any other time, accept and acquire by gift or donation money or funds, the income thereof, and so much of the principal as the donor may by express terms of the gift provide or permit shall be expended for the preservation, care, upkeep and adornment of such lands. Such moneys and funds for income purposes shall be invested from time to time in interest-bearing bonds of the same classes or kinds, and by the same city officials, as such city's bond sinking funds are or may be directed by law to be invested; and the principal sums thereof, except as permitted by the donor as aforesaid, shall be preserved and kept for income purposes. If such income revenue should prove insufficient to provide for the reasonable care and upkeep of the land which, or the control of which, may be so acquired, the city shall have power to provide therefor from its general revenue. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15284)
MO Rev Stat § 214.240 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.240 - City may provide and enforce rules and regulations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.240. City may provide and enforce rules and regulations. — Such cemetery lands and premises so acquired or the majority control of which may be acquired, shall by the city be kept and used for park purposes as a park for rest and contemplation and as may be reasonably consistent with reverent respect for the last resting places of the dead. The city may by ordinance provide and enforce rules, regulations and reasonable restrictions upon the uses thereof for such park purposes. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15285)
MO Rev Stat § 214.250 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.250 - Proceedings to establish cemetery in first class counties — petition by taxpayers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   214.250. Proceedings to establish cemetery in first class counties — petition by taxpayers. — Before any new burial ground, cemetery or graveyard can be opened up, established, started or operated in any town, village, city, county, township, school district or any other political subdivision of the state, in any county of class one, it shall be necessary first to obtain a written petition, addressed to the county commission of the county having jurisdiction thereof, signed by a majority of the assessed taxpaying citizens and conservators of minors owning property in the township in which it is proposed to locate such burial ground, cemetery or graveyard, giving their consent to the opening up of a burial ground, cemetery or graveyard, which petition shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county commission, not less than ten days before the first day of the term of the commission to which it is to be presented, and remain on file for public inspection, and the petition by the clerk shall be laid before the commission at the first term thereafter and in order to secure a permit it must appear affirmatively that a majority of the taxpaying citizens and conservators of minors owning property in such township in which it is proposed to locate the burial grounds, cemetery or graveyard, have signed the petition, then and in that event only shall the county commission issue its permission to the person or persons, association or corporation desiring to establish a burial ground, cemetery or graveyard; provided, no minor shall be counted on such petition and that no person or persons to whom any real estate has been deeded, transferred, conveyed or donated for the purpose of making him, or her or them, eligible for signing such petition shall be counted for or against such petition; without first securing permission from the county commission, it shall be unlawful to open up, establish, start or operate a new burial ground, cemetery or graveyard; provided further, that the provisions of this section shall be of no force and effect as to lots, tracts or parcels of land which have been or may be made available for use as a cemetery or graveyard by any zoning order. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15280, A.L. 1945 p. 622, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14071
MO Rev Stat § 214.260 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.260 - Penalty for violation.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.260. Penalty for violation. — Any person, persons, association or corporation who shall violate the provisions of section 214.250 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars or more than five hundred dollars and each day said burial ground, cemetery or graveyard shall remain open in violation of section 214.250, shall constitute a distinct and separate offense, and upon conviction shall be subject to a separate fine for each day he, she or they continue to operate and maintain said burial ground, cemetery or graveyard. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15281)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14072
MO Rev Stat § 214.277 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.277 - Injunctions, restraining orders, other court remedies available — venue.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   214.277. Injunctions, restraining orders, other court remedies available — venue. — 1. Upon application by the division, and the necessary burden having been met, a court of general jurisdiction may grant an injunction, restraining order or other order as may be appropriate to enjoin a person from:  (1) Offering to engage or engaging in the performance of any acts or practices for which a certificate of registration or authority, permit or license is required upon a showing that such acts or practices were performed or offered to be performed without a certificate of registration or authority, permit or license; or  (2) Engaging in any practice or business authorized by a certificate of registration or authority, permit or license issued pursuant to this chapter upon a showing that the holder presents a substantial probability of serious danger to the health, safety or welfare of any resident of this state or client or patient of the licensee.  2. Any action brought pursuant to this section shall be in addition to and not in lieu of any penalty provided by this chapter and may be brought concurrently with other actions to enforce this chapter. ­­-------- (L. 1999 H.B. 343, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754)
MO Rev Stat § 214.280 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.280 - Election to operate as endowed care cemetery filing with division of registration, form — fee — deposit of fee — division's powers and duties — rules authorized.

Effective - 28 Aug 2009   214.280. Election to operate as endowed care cemetery filing with division of registration, form — fee — deposit of fee — division's powers and duties — rules authorized. — 1. Operators of all existing cemeteries shall, prior to August twenty-eighth following August 28, 1994, elect to operate each cemetery as an endowed care cemetery as defined in subdivision (16) of section 214.270 and shall register such intention with the division and remit the required registration fee or, failing such election, shall operate each cemetery for which such election is not made as a nonendowed cemetery without regard to registration fees or penalties. Operators of all cemeteries hereafter established shall, within ninety days from the establishment thereof, elect to operate each cemetery as an endowed care cemetery, or as a nonendowed cemetery. Such election for newly established cemeteries shall be filed with the division, on a form provided by the division. Any such election made subsequent to August 28, 1994, shall be accompanied by a filing fee set by the division, and such fee shall be deposited in the endowed care cemetery audit fund as defined in section 193.265. The fee authorized in this subsection shall not be required from an existing nonendowed cemetery.  2. The division may adopt rules establishing the conditions and procedures governing the circumstances where an endowed care cemetery elects to operate as a nonendowed care cemetery. In the event an endowed care cemetery elects to operate as a nonendowed care cemetery, the division shall make every effort to require such cemetery to meet all contractual obligations for the delivery of services entered into prior to it reverting to the status of a nonendowed cemetery. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 538 § 4, A.L. 1994 S.B. 496 § 214.280 subsecs. 1, 2, A.L. 2009 S.B. 296)
MO Rev Stat § 214.282 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.282 - Voidability of contracts, exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   214.282. Voidability of contracts, exceptions. — 1. Each contract sold by a cemetery operator for cemetery services or for grave lots, grave spaces, markers, monuments, memorials, tombstones, crypts, niches, mausoleums, or other receptacles shall be voidable by the purchaser and deemed unenforceable unless:  (1) It is in writing;  (2) It is executed by a cemetery operator who is in compliance with the licensing provisions of this chapter;  (3) It identifies the contract purchaser and identifies the cemetery services or other items to be provided;  (4) It identifies the name and address of any trustee or escrow agent that will receive payments made pursuant to the contract under the provisions of section* 214.320, 214.330, or 214.387, if applicable;  (5) It contains the name and address of the cemetery operator; and  (6) It identifies any grounds for cancellation by the purchaser or by the cemetery operator on default of payment.  2. If a cemetery prearranged contract does not substantially comply with the provisions of this section, all payments made under such contract shall be recoverable by the purchaser, or the purchaser's legal representative, from the contract seller or other payee thereof, together with interest at the rate of ten percent per annum and all reasonable costs of collection, including attorneys' fees. ­­-------- (L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754)  *Word "sections" appears in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 214.283 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.283 - Notification of burial lands — registry of cemeteries to be kept by division — fee may be charged for copies — surveyor locating unregistered cemetery to file with division, form.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   214.283. Notification of burial lands — registry of cemeteries to be kept by division — fee may be charged for copies — surveyor locating unregistered cemetery to file with division, form. — 1. Any person, entity, association, city, town, village, county or political subdivision that purchases, receives or holds any real estate used for the burial of dead human bodies, excluding a family burial ground, shall notify the office of the endowed care cemeteries of the name, location and address of such real estate on a form approved by the office, before October 1, 2010, or within thirty days of purchasing, receiving or holding such land or of being notified by the office of the requirements of this provision. No fee shall be charged for such notification nor shall any penalty be assessed for failure to register. This section shall not be deemed to exempt any operator of an endowed care cemetery or nonendowed care cemetery from being duly licensed as required by this chapter.  2. The division shall establish and maintain a registry of cemeteries and the registry shall be available to the public for review at the division office or copied upon request. The division may charge a fee for copies of the register.  (1) If, in the course of a land survey of property located in this state, a surveyor licensed pursuant to chapter 327 locates any cemetery which has not been previously registered, the surveyor shall file a statement with the division regarding the location of the cemetery. The statement shall be filed on a form as defined by division rule. No fee shall be charged to the surveyor for such filing.  (2) Any person, family, group, association, society or county surveyor may submit to the division, on forms provided by the division, the names and locations of any cemetery located in this state for inclusion in the registry. No fee shall be charged for such submissions. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 538 § 4, A.L. 1994 S.B. 496 § 214.280 subsec. 3, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754)
MO Rev Stat § 214.300 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.300 - Nonendowed cemetery may qualify as endowed, when — minimum care and maintenance fund to be established.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   214.300. Nonendowed cemetery may qualify as endowed, when — minimum care and maintenance fund to be established. — Any cemetery operator may, after October 13, 1961, qualify to operate a cemetery which has been operated as a nonendowed cemetery for a minimum of two years, as an endowed care cemetery by:  (1) So electing in compliance with section 214.280;  (2) Establishing an endowed care trust fund in cash of one thousand dollars for each acre in said cemetery with a minimum of five thousand dollars and a maximum of twenty-five thousand dollars;  (3) Filing the report required by section 214.340. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 538 § 12, A.L. 1994 S.B. 496, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754)
MO Rev Stat § 214.325 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.325 - Required deposits — deficiency — effect — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 2010   214.325. Required deposits — deficiency — effect — penalty. — If the deposits to any endowed care trust fund are less than the total sum required to be set aside and deposited since the effective date of such sections, the cemetery operator shall correct such deficiency by depositing not less than twenty percent of such deficiency each year for five years and shall file, on the form provided by the division, a statement outlining the date and amount such deposits were made. If the cemetery operator fails to correct the deficiency with respect to funds maintained under section 214.330, the cemetery operator shall thereafter not represent the cemetery as an endowed care cemetery. Any funds held in the cemetery's endowed care trust shall continue to be used for endowed care for that cemetery. The cemetery operator shall remain subject to the provisions of sections 214.270 to 214.410 for any cemetery or any section of the cemetery for which endowed care payments have been collected, subject to the penalties contained in section 214.410, and civil actions as well as subject to any regulations promulgated by the division. For purposes of this section, the term "deficiency" shall mean a deficiency in the amount required to be deposited pursuant to section 214.320, or a deficiency created by disbursements in excess of what is permitted under section 214.330 and shall not include or be affected by deficiencies or shortages caused by the fluctuating value of investments. ­­-------- (L. 1990 H.B. 1079, A.L. 1994 S.B. 496, A.L. 2010 H.B. 1692, et al. merged with H.B. 2226, et al. merged with S.B. 754)