| SB 0618 | Allows abandoned burial sites revert to the cemetery after seventy-five years |
| Sponsor: | Yeckel | |||
| LR Number: | 2190S.01I | Fiscal Note: | 2190-01 | |
| Committee: | Financial and Governmental Organization | |||
| Last Action: | 03/26/01 - Voted Do Pass S Financial & Governmental Org., | Journal page: | ||
| Veterans' Affairs & Elections Committee | ||||
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| Effective Date: | August 28, 2001 | |||
SB 618 - The act provides for abandoned burial sites to revert to the private or public cemetery. A burial site is deemed abandoned if after seventy-five years from the last activity of record, a reasonable search for the owner fails to locate the owner.
A reasonable search entails sending notice to the last known address of the record property owner and publishing a description of the burial site in a newspaper circulated in the county of the last known address of the record property owner for three weeks. After a year from publishing the notice and no owner has claimed the burial site, the burial site is deemed abandoned.
If persons with a legitimate claim to the burial site present themselves after the abandoned burial site has been used for a different purpose or resold, the cemetery must provide an equal burial site.
Identical provisions are contained in TAT
CCS/SS/SCS/HCS/HB 567.
JULIA SOMMER GRUS