New Hampshire Statutes
§ 289:16 — Reinterment
New Hampshire·Title XXVI CEMETERIES; BURIALS; DEAD BODIES·Ch. 289 CEMETERIES·Subdivision Cemetery Trustees
The governing body may, at the expense of the municipality, disinter all the remains of persons buried in such cemetery and reinter the same in the unoccupied part of another cemetery within the municipality, such reinterment to be in the place designated by the nearest surviving relatives of the deceased persons or, in the absence of such surviving relative, by the cemetery trustees. Such removal and reinterment shall be done prudently and with proper care and attention.
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Legislative History
1994, 318:2, eff. Aug. 7, 1994.
Nearby Sections
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§ 289:1
Definitions§ 289:10
Investments§ 289:11
Accounting§ 289:12
Reports§ 289:13
Cemetery Association Termination§ 289:14-b
Historic Burial Grounds and Cemeteries§ 289:15
Discontinuance§ 289:16
Reinterment§ 289:17
Removal of Monuments§ 289:18
Forfeiture Procedures§ 289:19
Neglected Burial Ground§ 289:2
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