Alabama § 11-47-74 Removal of Remains, Etc., from Cemeteries Owned by Churches, Etc

Alabama Statutes

§ 11-47-74 — Removal of Remains, Etc., from Cemeteries Owned by Churches, Etc

Alabama § 11-47-74

JurisdictionAlabama

Title 11Counties and Municipal Corporations

Ch. 47Powers, Duties and Liabilities Generally

Art. 2Cemeteries and Burial Grounds

Div. 2Abandonment of Cemeteries and Removal and Reinterment of Human Remains

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Ala. Code § 11-47-74 (2026).

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Nothing contained in this division shall authorize or permit or be construed or deemed to authorize or permit the heirs, relatives, or friends of any deceased person whose body has been interred in any cemetery owned, governed, or controlled by any religious corporation or by any church or religious society or any denomination or by any corporation sole administering temporalities of any religious denomination, society, or church or owned, governed or controlled by any person or persons as trustee or trustees for any religious denomination, society or church to disinter, remove, reinter, or dispose of any such body except in accordance with the rules, regulations, and discipline of such religious denomination, society, or church.

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Nothing contained in this division shall authorize or permit or be construed or deemed to authorize or permit the heirs, relatives, or friends of any deceased person whose body has been interred in any cemetery owned, governed, or controlled by any religious corporation or by any church or religious society or any denomination or by any corporation sole administering temporalities of any religious denomination, society, or church or owned, governed or controlled by any person or persons as trustee or trustees for any religious denomination, society or church to disinter, remove, reinter, or dispose of any such body except in accordance with the rules, regulations, and discipline of such religious denomination, society, or church.