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MO Rev Stat § 213.131 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 213 - Human Rights|Section 213.131 - Local commissions, certification — review — decertification.

Effective - 28 Aug 1992   213.131. Local commissions, certification — review — decertification. — 1. No local commission shall have authority to hear complaints of violations of this chapter unless such municipal or county commission has first been certified to be substantially equivalent by the commission. The commission shall certify a local commission as substantially equivalent if the ordinance establishing the local commission provides substantially similar protection of the procedural rights of parties appearing before the local commission as are provided for by the provisions of this chapter.  2. The commission shall review the certification of each local commission at least once every five years to determine whether it is appropriately safeguarding the procedural and substantive rights of parties appearing before it. Should the commission determine that a local commission is not adequately protecting the rights of parties appearing before it, it shall direct the commission staff to enter into negotiations with the local commission for the purpose of attempting to correct any deficiencies. Any decision to decertify a local commission shall be appealable to circuit court pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536. ­­-------- (L. 1992 H.B. 1619)
MO Rev Stat § 213.137 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 213 - Human Rights|Section 213.137 - Severability.

Effective - 28 Aug 1992   213.137. Severability. — If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, or clause of sections 213.010 to 213.135 is held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect any remaining portion, section, or part thereof which can be given effect without the invalid provision. ­­-------- (L. 1992 H.B. 1619 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 214.010 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.010 - Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries — authority to regulate — penalties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   214.010. Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries — authority to regulate — penalties. — Any town, city, village or county in the state of Missouri may purchase, receive and hold real estate within such city, town, village or county for the burial of the dead, and may lease, sell or otherwise dispose of the same. The council of such cities, towns and villages or county commissioners may make rules and pass ordinances or orders imposing penalties and fines not exceeding one thousand dollars, regulating, protecting and governing cemeteries within such cities, towns, villages, and counties, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereto, and punishing trespassers thereon. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15277, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1079)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14068; 1919 § 1092; 1909 § 1314
MO Rev Stat § 214.020 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.020 - City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund — receive gifts — limitation on use of income from fund.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   214.020. City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund — receive gifts — limitation on use of income from fund. — Any town, city or village in the state of Missouri which now owns or may hereafter acquire any cemetery, may by ordinance establish a fund for the preservation, care, upkeep and adornment of such cemetery, such fund to be known as "Perpetual Care Cemetery Fund", and may accept and acquire by gift or donation, money or funds to be placed to the credit of such perpetual care cemetery fund. Such town, city or village may also deposit in such fund a portion of the income derived from the sale of lots in such cemetery as shall be determined by ordinance of such town, city or village. Such moneys and funds so placed in such perpetual care cemetery fund shall be invested from time to time in bonds of the United States government or of the state of Missouri, or may be placed in any bank or savings and loan association which is authorized to do business in this state so long as the funds so deposited are* protected by federal deposit insurance. The income therefrom shall be expended by such town, city or village for the preservation, care, upkeep and adornment of such cemetery, for the repurchasing of cemetery lots previously sold, and for no other purpose whatsoever. The principal of said perpetual care cemetery fund shall not be encroached upon for any purpose whatsoever and no money shall be transferred out of such perpetual care cemetery fund except for the purposes of being invested as provided for in this section and for the repurchasing of cemetery lots previously sold. The city council of the various towns, cities or villages which shall establish such perpetual care cemetery fund shall by ordinance accept any gift or donation to such fund, and shall by said ordinance direct the treasurer of said town, city or village to place such money or funds to the credit of such perpetual care cemetery fund. Such city council shall have all the necessary authority by ordinance to invest such funds as provided for in this section. ­­-------- (L. 1949 p. 234 § 15277a, A.L. 1965 p. 364, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1550)  *Word "or" appears in original rolls.
MO Rev Stat § 214.030 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.030 - Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.

Effective - 28 Aug 2001   214.030. Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed. — The cemetery lots owned by such county, city, town or village shall be conveyed by deed signed by the mayor or presiding commissioner of said county, city, town or village, duly attested by the clerk of such county, city, town or village, or other officer performing the duties of clerk, and shall vest in the purchaser, his or her heirs and assigns, a right in fee simple to such lot for the sole purpose of interment pursuant to the regulations of the council or commission, except that such fee simple right may be revested in the county, city, town or village pursuant to section 214.035. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15278, A.L. 2001 H.B. 408)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14069; 1919 § 1093; 1909 § 1315
MO Rev Stat § 214.040 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.040 - Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where — requirements.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   214.040. Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where — requirements. — 1. Every person or association which owns any cemetery in which dead human remains are or may be buried or otherwise interred, except a private or family cemetery, shall cause to be maintained in an office in the cemetery, or in an office within a reasonable distance of the cemetery, a plat of such cemetery showing the entire area and location of the cemetery, the portion thereof which is formally dedicated for the burial of dead human remains, all burial lots or interment spaces, and all walks, roads, improvements and features. The cemetery operator shall cause the plat to be updated from time to time as is necessary to cause the plat to remain current.  2. The cemetery operator shall also cause to be maintained at such office a record of the owner of each burial lot or interment space described in the current plat of the cemetery and a record of all dead human remains buried or interred at the cemetery, which record shall include the name of each deceased person buried or interred at the cemetery, the date of burial or interment, the location of burial or interment and, if known, the name and address of the funeral director who provided the memorial service or other final arrangements for the deceased person. The cemetery operator shall cause reasonable assistance to be provided to burial lot or interment space owners in locating their lots or spaces and to the family or other interested persons in locating the place of burial or interment of deceased persons whose remains are buried or interred in the cemetery. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15261, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1079)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14052; 1919 § 1080; 1909 § 1302   (1959) The fact that the purchaser's name was not placed upon the plat of the cemetery lot as required by this section does not cause the purchaser to lose title to the lot. The burden of placing the name on the plat was upon the owner of the cemetery and not upon the purchaser. Billings v. Paine (Mo.), 319 S.W.2d 653.
MO Rev Stat § 214.041 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.041 - Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery — exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1990   214.041. Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery — exceptions. — No road shall be constructed in any cemetery over a burial lot in which dead human remains are buried. Temporary access routes over burial lots may be used in the operation or maintenance of the cemetery or used in the construction of cemetery improvements or features. This section shall not apply to private or family cemeteries, as described in section 214.090. ­­-------- (L. 1990 H.B. 1079)
MO Rev Stat § 214.050 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.050 - Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.050. Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions. — The county commissions of the several counties of this state are hereby vested with power to vacate any streets, avenues, thoroughfares or places heretofore dedicated, or which may hereafter be dedicated to public use in any cemeteries located within the respective borders of such counties. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15272)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14063
MO Rev Stat § 214.060 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.060 - Petition to be presented to county commission — remonstrance may be filed.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.060. Petition to be presented to county commission — remonstrance may be filed. — Whenever it is desired to have any street, avenue, thoroughfare or place in any cemetery vacated, the corporation, association or person owning or controlling such cemetery shall present to the county commission of the county within which such cemetery is located, at a regular or adjourned term of such commission, a petition praying for such vacation, particularly describing the street, avenue, thoroughfare or place sought to be vacated, and shall file with such petition proof that notice of the filing of such petition has been given for at least twenty days by at least three printed or written notices posted in public places in such cemetery, at least one of which shall be posted in each street, avenue, thoroughfare or place sought to be vacated, and published in some newspaper, if such there be, published in the town or city in which or adjacent or approximate to which such cemetery is located. If a remonstrance signed by any three lot owners of such cemetery remonstrating against granting the prayer of such petition be filed on or before the first day of the term at which such petition is filed, then the county commission shall inform itself as to the propriety of granting such petition, and if the commission be of the opinion that the petition should be granted, or if no remonstrance be so filed, the county commission shall make an order vacating the streets, avenues, thoroughfares and places as prayed for in the petition, and the title to the lands so vacated shall revert to the corporation, association or person by whom the cemetery was platted or to the successors of such corporation, association or person. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15273)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14064
MO Rev Stat § 214.070 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.070 - Terms defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.070. Terms defined. — Wherever in sections 214.050 and 214.060 the term "street", "avenue", "thoroughfare" or "place" is used, the same shall be construed to mean any tract of land or part thereof in any cemetery set aside by plat or otherwise for the general use of the public, and shall include the plural of such term. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15274)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14065
MO Rev Stat § 214.080 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.080 - Proceedings to enlarge.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.080. Proceedings to enlarge. — Whenever it shall become absolutely necessary to enlarge any public burial ground or cemetery, and when the public, to the number of five or more persons, interested in the enlargement of said burial grounds or cemetery, and the owner or owners of the adjoining land, cannot agree as to the price to be paid for the same, or for any other cause cannot secure a title thereto, the public, to the number of five or more persons, may proceed to condemn the same, in the same manner as provided by law for condemnation, appropriation and valuation, in cases of lands taken for telegraph and railroad purposes; and on such condemnation, and the payment of the appraisement as therein provided, the title of such land shall vest in the public for the purposes and uses only for which it was taken. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15275)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14066; 1919 § 1088; 1909 § 1310
MO Rev Stat § 214.090 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.090 - Family burying grounds, how secured.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.090. Family burying grounds, how secured. — Any person desirous of securing family burying ground or cemetery on his or her lands, may convey to the county commission of the county in which the land lies any quantity of land not exceeding one acre, in trust for the purpose above mentioned, the deed for which to be recorded within sixty days after the conveyance; and such grounds, when so conveyed, shall be held in perpetuity as burying grounds or cemeteries for the use and benefit of the family and descendants of the person making such conveyance. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15262)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14053; 1919 § 1081; 1909 § 1303
MO Rev Stat § 214.120 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.120 - Costs, who liable for.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.120. Costs, who liable for. — The cost of the prosecution under the provisions of this chapter, and all other costs necessarily incurred in superintending and protecting such burying grounds or cemeteries, shall be a charge upon the owners, for the time being, of the tracts of land of which such grounds were formerly a part, and shall be collected as other costs in actions for trespass. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15265)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14056; 1919 § 1084; 1909 § 1306
MO Rev Stat § 214.130 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.130 - County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.130. County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust. — It shall be lawful for the county commission of any county in which any family burying ground or cemetery, conveyed as aforesaid to said commission, is situated, to take and hold any grant or bequest of money or bonds of the United States, or of this state, or of such county, in trust, and to apply the same or the income thereof for the improvement of any such family burying ground or cemetery, or any portion thereof, or in the erection, extension, adornment or preservation of any tomb, monument, vault or grave, within such burial ground or cemetery, according to the terms of any such grant or bequest, but for no other use, trust or purpose whatever; and every incorporated cemetery company is also hereby authorized and empowered to take and hold any like grant or bequest in trust, and to apply the same, or the income thereof, under the direction of the board of trustees or directors of such cemetery company, for the improvement of such cemetery, or any portion thereof, or in the erection, extension, adornment or preservation of any tomb, monument, vault or grave within such cemetery, according to the terms of any such grant or bequest, but for no other use, trust or purpose whatever. Any court having equity jurisdiction within the county in which such family burying ground or cemetery is situated, shall have power and it shall be its duty to compel the performance of any such trust upon the application of any person whatever. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15267)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14058; 1919 § 1087; 1909 § 1309
MO Rev Stat § 214.131 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.131 - Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined.

Effective - 28 Aug 1987   214.131. Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined. — Every person who shall knowingly destroy, mutilate, disfigure, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone, or other structure placed in any abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornamentation of any such cemetery or place of burial of any human being, or tomb, monument or gravestone, memento, or memorial, or other structure aforesaid, or of any lot within such cemetery is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. For the purposes of this section and subsection 1 of section 214.132, an "abandoned family cemetery" or "private burying ground" shall include those cemeteries or burying grounds which have not been deeded to the public as provided in chapter 214, and in which no body has been interred for at least twenty-five years. ­­-------- (L. 1987 H.B. 60 § 1)
MO Rev Stat § 214.132 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.132 - Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court's power to disinter.

Effective - 28 Aug 1997   214.132. Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court's power to disinter. — 1. Any person who wishes to visit an abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground which is completely surrounded by privately owned land, for which no public ingress or egress is available, shall have the right to reasonable ingress or egress for the purpose of visiting such cemetery. This right of access to such cemeteries extends only to visitation during reasonable hours and only for purposes usually associated with cemetery visits.  2. The sheriff or chief law enforcement officer of the county in which the abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground is located shall enforce the provisions of subsection 1 of this section.  3. Nothing in section 214.131 and this section shall be construed to limit or modify the power or authority of a court in any action of law or equity to order the disinterment and removal of the remains from a cemetery and interment in a suitable location. ­­-------- (L. 1987 H.B. 60 §§ 2, 3, A.L. 1997 S.B. 58)
MO Rev Stat § 214.140 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.140 - Property placed in trust for benefit of cemeteries.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.140. Property placed in trust for benefit of cemeteries. — It shall be lawful for any grantor, devisor, donor or trustee to give, grant, devise, bequeath or place in trust any real or personal property, or the income therefrom, for the use and benefit of any public or private cemetery in this state or for the grading, seeding, sodding, mowing, or otherwise maintaining, improving or beautifying of any grave, lot, stone, monument or mausoleum in any such cemetery, and any person, association or corporation duly authorized and capable of qualifying as trustee is hereby authorized and empowered to receive and hold any such real or personal property, or the income therefrom, and expend the same for any or all such uses and purposes, under the terms and conditions of any such gifts, grant, devise, bequest or trust. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15279)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 14070; 1919 § 1094
MO Rev Stat § 214.150 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.150 - County commissions shall become trustees and custodians.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.150. County commissions shall become trustees and custodians. — The county commissions of the respective counties of this state shall become trustees and custodians of any fund or funds which may be created by any person or persons, firm or corporation, for the purpose of maintaining in part or in whole any public or private cemetery in their respective county. When a gift or bequest is made to said county commission they shall accept the same upon the terms and conditions of said gift or bequest and administer said trust fund as herein provided and make report to the circuit court annually showing in detail the manner in which said trust fund or funds have been managed. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15268)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14059  (1957) Sections 214.150 to 214.180 authorize but do not compel county courts to act as trustees and custodians of trust funds for maintenance of cemeteries and such courts are required to administer such funds only when so designated by the trustor. Powers v. Johnson (A.), 306 S.W.2d 616.
MO Rev Stat § 214.170 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XII - Public Health and Welfare|Chapter 214 - Cemeteries|Section 214.170 - May designate responsible organization or individual to administer the income.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   214.170. May designate responsible organization or individual to administer the income. — Any responsible organization or individual, who is directly interested in a particular cemetery, who is willing to undertake the administration of the income from all trusts and gifts to this particular cemetery shall be designated by the commission to administer the said income and shall make an annual report to the commission. Any time the organization or individual so appointed fails to maintain and beautify said cemetery in keeping with the income, the commission shall appoint some other organization or individual to administer the aforesaid income. Where there is no responsible organization or individual, that is willing to undertake the administration of the said income from the trusts or gifts to any particular cemetery, the commission shall administer same, or appoint some organization or individual, who is responsible to administer the same, making the said annual report to the commission. The commission shall retain five percent of the incomes from all trusts and gifts to create a fund to reimburse any trust or gift which has a loss. The commission shall have authority to increase or decrease the said five percent as may be necessary to keep all trusts and gifts intact. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 15270)  Prior revision: 1929 § 14061