§ 11-47-68 — Erection of Markers Upon and Preparation, Filing, Etc., of Maps, Plans, Etc., of Lands, Etc., Where Remains Reinterred

Alabama § 11-47-68

• Jurisdiction: Alabama
• Title 11: Counties and Municipal Corporations
• Ch. 47: Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally
• Art. 2: Cemeteries and Burial Grounds
• Div. 2: Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains

Text

After the removal and reinterment or deposit in a mausoleum or columbarium of the bodies disinterred from any such abandoned cemetery or part thereof the cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person owning or controlling such abandoned cemetery lands and making such removals shall cause to be erected upon or imbedded in any lot or plat wherein any such body is reinterred a suitable permanent marker identifying such remains and shall prepare a complete map or plat describing and showing the location and subdivision into lots and plats of the cemetery lands where such bodies are reinterred or a plan of any mausoleum or columbarium wherein such bodies may be deposited, and there shall also be attached to any such map or plat or plans a description of the name of each person whose body is so reinterred or deposited, where known, and the lot or plat in the cemetery or the niche or compartment in any mausoleum or columbarium where such body is reinterred or deposited. Such map or plat shall be kept on file in the office of such cemetery corporation, association, corporation sole or other person making such removals and reinterments or depositing bodies in a mausoleum or columbarium and shall at all times be open to inspection by the relatives or friends of those so reinterred or deposited.

Legislative History

(Acts 1957, No. 389, p. 523, §11.)