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Ohio Rev Code § 517.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.01 | Acquisition or Appropriation of Land.

Effective: January 1, 1966|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 94 - 106th General Assembly|The board of township trustees may accept a conveyance of, or purchase, and enclose, improve, and protect lands in one or more places within the township as it deems necessary and proper for cemetery purposes. If suitable lands cannot be procured by contract on reasonable terms, such board may appropriate lands therefor, not to exceed ten acres, by proceedings in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code.No lands shall be so appropriated within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, or other building.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.02 | Public Road to Cemetery.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When twenty-five interested persons petition for it, the board of township trustees shall provide a public road to any township cemetery over which it has control, in the same manner as provided by section 517.01 of the Revised Code for establishing cemeteries and obtaining the land therefor.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.03 | Levy and Taxes for Expenses.

Effective: September 28, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly|To defray the expenses of the purchase or appropriation, and the enclosing, care, supervision, repair, and improving of lands for cemetery purposes, and of maintaining and improving entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights, the board of township trustees may levy a tax sufficient for that purpose.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.04 | Vote on Establishment of Cemetery.

Effective: September 28, 1961|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 733 - 104th General Assembly|Before a purchase or appropriation of land for cemetery purposes is made or a conveyance is accepted, except where funds may be available for such purchase or appropriation of land for cemetery purposes under section 517.08 of the Revised Code, the question of the establishment of such cemetery, on the order of the board of township trustees or the written application of any six electors of the township, shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of such township at a regular annual election. Such order or application shall specify as nearly as possible the proposed location of the cemetery, and the estimated cost thereof, including enclosing and improving it.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.05 | Notice of Election - Ballots.

Effective: July 2, 2010|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly|On the making of an order or the filing of an application as provided by section 517.04 of the Revised Code, the township fiscal officer shall certify the order or application to the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the election, and, at least twenty days before an election, the fiscal officer shall post written notices in at least three public places in the township that a vote will be taken on the question of the establishment of a cemetery. If a majority of the votes cast at the election on the proposition is in favor of establishing a cemetery, the board of township trustees shall procure the lands for that purpose and levy taxes as provided by section 517.03 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.06 | Cemetery Plat.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The board of township trustees shall have the cemetery laid out in lots, avenues, and paths, shall number the lots, and shall have a suitable plat of the lots made, which plat shall be carefully kept by the township fiscal officer. The board shall make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the division of the cemetery into lots, for the allotment of lots to families or individuals, and for the care, supervision, and improvement of the lots. The board also may make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for burial, interment, reinterment, or disinterment. The board shall require the grass and weeds in the cemetery to be cut and destroyed at least twice each year. Suitable provision shall be made in the cemetery for persons whose burial is at the expense of the township.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.071 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.071 | Rules Governing Product of Fetal Death.

Effective: September 12, 2008|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 175 - 127th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section and section 517.072 of the Revised Code, "fetal death" has the same meaning as in section 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A board of township trustees may adopt rules for any township cemetery over which it has control for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death.(C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother and in compliance with cemetery rules, a township cemetery shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one of the following:(1) In a single grave within the cemetery that contains, or will contain, the remains of a parent, sibling, or grandparent;(2) In another location of the cemetery, including a separate burial ground for infants, on a temporary or permanent basis.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.072 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.072 | Reinterment or Disinterment of Product of Fetal Death.

Effective: September 12, 2008|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 175 - 127th General Assembly|(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, re-interment or disinterment of the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code is not subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code if one or both surviving parents provide written consent for the re-interment or disinterment to the township cemetery and comply with any rules adopted under division (B) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code. (B) If two surviving parents are indicated on the township cemetery's burial documents for the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code and only one has given consent under division (A) of this section, prior to re-interment or disinterment, the cemetery promptly shall give notice of the consent to the parent who did not give consent. The notice shall be sent by registered mail, return receipt requested, to the parent's last known address and contain a statement that the re-interment or disinterment will occur if the cemetery does not receive written objection within thirty days from the date the notice is sent. That parent may object to the re-interment or disinterment by giving notice to the cemetery by registered mail, return receipt requested, not later than thirty days after the cemetery's notice is sent. If the cemetery receives timely notice of the objection, the re-interment or disinterment is subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code.(C) The cemetery shall re-inter or disinter the product of a fetal death if both surviving parents provide written consent for the re-interment or disinterment or if one parent consents and the cemetery does not receive timely notice of any objection under division (B) of this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.08 | Expenditure of Proceeds - Exception.

Effective: September 28, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly|The proceeds arising from the sale of cemetery lots under section 517.07 of the Revised Code shall be used in maintaining, improving, beautifying, and embellishing such grounds, and for maintaining and improving entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights, except that upon unanimous consent of the board of township trustees, such proceeds may be used in the purchase or appropriation of additional land for cemetery purposes in accordance with sections 517.01 and 517.13 of the Revised Code; and the board of township trustees may build and maintain proper and secure fences around all such cemeteries, to be paid for from the township funds.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.09 | No Levy on Lots.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|No lot held by any individual in a cemetery, shall, in any case, be levied on or sold on execution.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.10 | Title to Certain Burial Grounds Vested in Board of Township Trustees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The title to, right of possession, and control of all public cemeteries located outside any municipal corporation, which have been set apart and dedicated as public cemeteries, and any grounds which have been used as such by the public, but not expressly dedicated as a cemetery, except such as are owned or under the care of a religious or benevolent society, or an incorporated company or association, or under the control of the authorities of any municipal corporation, shall, severally be vested in the board of township trustees.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.11 | Care of Cemetery.

Effective: September 28, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 413 - 131st General Assembly|The board of township trustees shall provide for the protection and preservation of cemeteries under its jurisdiction, and shall prohibit interments therein when new grounds have been procured for township cemeteries or burial grounds. Where such old cemeteries are in or near village plats, and the public health is liable to be injured by further interments therein, the board shall institute suits to recover possession thereof, remove trespassers therefrom, and may recover damages for injuries thereto or any part thereof, or to any fence or hedge enclosing them, or to any tomb or monument therein.The board may enclose cemeteries under its jurisdiction with a substantial fence or hedge, and shall keep any such fence or hedge in good repair. It may re-erect any fallen tombstones, regardless of the cause of the falling, in such cemeteries. The board, as it considers necessary, may purchase, maintain, and improve entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights. The board may levy a tax to meet any costs incurred for these purposes, not to exceed one-half mill in any one year, upon all the taxable property of the township.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.12 | Regulating Hours of Access to Cemeteries.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The board of township trustees may make rules specifying the times when cemeteries under its control shall be closed to the public. The board shall cause the rules to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the township or as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code, and may post appropriate notice in the township as considered necessary. The purposes of such rules shall be to assure a reasonable time of access to the cemeteries in view of the differences in attendance anticipated from past experience as to each, to exclude attendance at times when no proper purposes could normally be expected, to permit exceptions to the normal hours of access on reasonable request with adequate reason provided, and to facilitate the task of protecting the premises from vandalism, desecration, and other improper usage.Whoever violates these rules is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.13 | Additions to Cemetery Grounds.

Effective: October 9, 1978|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 216 - 112th General Assembly|In any township in which there is a cemetery owned or partly owned by such township, if in the opinion of the board of township trustees, it is desirable to add to the area of such cemetery by the purchase of additional grounds, and if suitable lands cannot be procured by contract on reasonable terms, the board may appropriate lands, not exceeding ten acres, by proceedings in accordance with sections 163.01 to 163.22 of the Revised Code, for the expansion of an existing cemetery if the township zoning ordinances do not prohibit such use. Lands appropriated for the expansion of a cemetery shall not be appropriated within fifty feet of a dwelling house or other building and shall be considered a part of the original cemetery even though separated therefrom by a road or highway.For such purpose the board may expend funds as provided in section 517.08 of the Revised Code, or the board may levy a tax, not to exceed one-half of one mill, on the taxable property of the township, for a period not to exceed five years, which tax shall be collected as other taxes, and appropriated for the purchase or appropriation of such additional cemetery grounds which shall become part of the township cemetery.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.14 | Public Cemetery on Township Lines - Joint Township Cemetery.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a public cemetery, located on or near a township line, is used by the people of two or more townships for burying purposes, the boards of township trustees of such townships shall jointly take possession thereof, and care for and keep it in repair, as in the case of cemeteries belonging to a township. The board of each township shall levy taxes needed for such cemetery, not to exceed one-fourth per cent in any year. Two or more townships may join in establishing and maintaining a cemetery, and for such purpose the boards shall have the same powers, be governed by the same rules, and proceed in the same manner as provided for municipal corporations and townships uniting for that purpose under sections 759.27 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.15 | Cemetery Endowment Fund.

Effective: September 29, 2015|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 64 - 131st General Assembly|A board of township trustees may create a permanent cemetery endowment fund for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and beautifying township cemeteries and burial lots in township cemeteries. The fund shall consist of money arising from the following sources:(A) Gifts, devises, or bequests received for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying township cemeteries;(B) Charges added to the price regularly charged for burial lots for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying township cemeteries;(C) Contributions of money from the township general fund;(D) An individual agreement with the purchaser of a burial lot providing that a part of the purchase price is to be applied to the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying any burial lot designated and named by the purchaser;(E) Individual gifts, devises, or bequests made for the maintenance, improvement, and beautification of any burial lot designated and named by the person making the gift, devise, or bequest.Upon unanimous consent of the board of trustees, the board may use the principal of the fund if the board is unable to maintain, improve, and beautify township cemeteries using only the income from the fund.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.19 | Tax Levy for Buildings Upon Grounds of Cemetery - Bond Issue.

Effective: May 13, 1981|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 95 - 114th General Assembly|Where the township owns a burial place within the grounds of a cemetery association, the board of township trustees may levy a tax, not exceeding five mills on the dollar of the tax duplicate of the township, for the purpose of erecting permanent buildings upon such cemetery grounds.Such tax, when it has been assessed and collected, shall be paid to the officers of such cemetery association, and shall be applied by them to the erection of such permanent buildings as in their judgment are requisite for the accommodation of the patrons of the cemetery.In anticipation of such tax, the officers of such cemetery association may issue and sell bonds, to bear interest at a rate not to exceed the rate provided in section 9.95 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.20 | Appointment of Directors of Township Cemetery.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The board of township trustees may appoint three directors to take charge of any cemetery in the township, the control of which is vested in such board. The first appointments shall be for one, two, and three years respectively. The order appointing a director shall designate, by name, the cemeteries over which he shall have supervision. Each year one director shall be appointed to serve for three years from the second Monday of May succeeding his appointment. When appointed, such directors shall be governed, in the discharge of their duties, by sections 517.01 to 517.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code, so far as applicable.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.21 | Abandonment or Discontinuance of Cemetery - Removal of Bodies and Stones.

Effective: November 24, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 328 - 121st General Assembly|When a public or private cemetery has been abandoned, or when the board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery association are of the opinion that the further use for burial purposes of a cemetery will be detrimental to the public welfare or health, and a cemetery in the near vicinity is open for public use, the board, trustees, or directors may order that the abandoned cemetery or the cemetery whose further use for burial purposes is believed to be detrimental to the public welfare or health be discontinued and provide for the removal of all remains buried in that cemetery, for the removal of all stones and monuments marking the graves of that cemetery, for the reinterment of the remains, and for the re-erection of those stones and monuments in suitable public ground in the near vicinity, all of which shall be paid for from the township treasury.Before providing for any removal described in this section, the board, trustees, or directors shall first give notice to the family, friends, or next of kin of the decedent involved, if known, of the discontinuance order and of the time within which, not less than thirty days, the removal must be made. The notice shall state that it is desired that the removal be made by the family, friends, or next of kin of the decedent. If, at the expiration of the thirty-day period, the removals have not been made, the board, trustees, or directors may make the removals as provided by this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.22 | Public Sale of Cemetery.

Effective: September 29, 2011|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 153 - 129th General Assembly|The board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery association, after notice has first been given in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, may dispose of, at public sale, and convey any cemetery under their control that they have determined to discontinue as burial grounds, but possession of the cemetery shall not be given to a grantee until after the remains buried in that cemetery, together with stones and monuments, have been removed as provided by section 517.21 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.25 | Writ of Mandamus.

Effective: November 24, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 328 - 121st General Assembly|If the board of township trustees, the trustees or board of a cemetery association, or the other officers in charge of a cemetery refuse to disinter or grant permission for disinterment after a surviving spouse makes application under sections 517.23 and 517.24 of the Revised Code, the probate court of the county in which the decedent is buried shall issue a writ of mandamus requiring the officers to disinter the remains or to grant permission for their disinterment.
Ohio Rev Code § 517.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 5 | Townships|Chapter 517 | Cemeteries|Section 517.26 | Removal of Dead.

Effective: November 24, 1995|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 328 - 121st General Assembly|When remains laid in a vault or other receptacle become offensive, on the complaint of a householder of the township, the board of township trustees immediately shall issue an order to the sexton or other person in charge of the vault or receptacle to have the remains immediately interred. If the interment is neglected for three days after the complaint, any judge of the county court within the county may issue a written order to a householder of the township to inter the remains at the expense of the board and shall allow a reasonable charge for the service.