Chapter 114 - CEMETERIES AND BURIALS
- Section 114:1 - Definitions
- Section 114:1A - Nonprofit cemeteries
- Section 114:1B - Liability of director, officer, or trustee
- Section 114:2 - Powers and duties of cemetery corporations
- Section 114:2A - Disclosure of ownership interest
- Section 114:3 - Records of conveyances of burial lots
- Section 114:3A - Cemetery ownership of unclaimed graves; reuse of occupied graves
- Section 114:4 - Certified copies of recorded deeds and instruments; evidence
- Section 114:5 - Trust funds
- Section 114:5A - Burials; denial to designated funeral director; prohibition
- Section 114:5B - Notification of certain options for burial services; penalty
- Section 114:5C - Fiduciary duty
- Section 114:6 - Cremation
- Section 114:7 - Formation and organization of crematory corporations
- Section 114:8 - Crematory corporations; acquisition and holding of land in fee
- Section 114:9 - By-laws and regulations of cemeteries and crematory corporations; conduct of business; violations
- Section 114:10 - Town burial places
- Section 114:10A - Municipality ownership of unclaimed graves; reuse of occupied graves
- Section 114:11 - Taking of land for burial purposes; application to county commissioners
- Section 114:12 - Taking of land for burial places; hearing notice
- Section 114:13 - Adjudication by commissioners; taking
- Section 114:14 - Compensation of commissioners acting under petition to take land for burial place
- Section 114:15 - Appropriation for enclosing and improving cemetery; sale of burial rights; records; disposition of proceeds
- Section 114:16 - Appropriation for and care of cemeteries
- Section 114:17 - Preservation of ancient burial places
- Section 114:18 - Care of neglected burial places within limits of town
- Section 114:19 - Deposits for care and improvement of burial places or lots; records; investment of deposits
- Section 114:20 - Depositing funds with state treasurer; copy of instrument; notice to town or city clerk
- Section 114:21 - Investment of funds; interest
- Section 114:22 - Town board of cemetery commissioners; election of members
- Section 114:23 - Powers and duties
- Section 114:24 - Conveyance of burial lots; record; inspection; fee
- Section 114:25 - Gifts or bequests for cemeteries; investment of funds; disposition of proceeds of sales of lots or burial rights
- Section 114:26 - Limit of debts or liabilities; annual report
- Section 114:27 - Appointment of board of cemetery commissioners; powers and duties
- Section 114:28 - Conveyance of lots or interest in lots in trust for preservation as memorial; rights of heirs of owner; control over lot or interest in lot
- Section 114:29 - Indivisible character of lots; vesting; limitations and conditions; right of interment; designation of representation of lot; record
- Section 114:30 - Hearing as to representation
- Section 114:31 - Descent of family lot to heirs
- Section 114:32 - Right of wife to interment; release
- Section 114:33 - Right of husband to interment
- Section 114:34 - Use of land for burial; new cemeteries or extensions; approval of board of health; description of land
- Section 114:35 - Lands to be used for burial; approval
- Section 114:36 - Appeal from order of board of health; hearing
- Section 114:37 - Regulations by local boards of health; notice
- Section 114:38 - Closing of tombs, burial ground or cemetery; hearing; notice
- Section 114:39 - Appeal from order of board
- Section 114:40 - Jury trial; rescission of order; costs and double costs
- Section 114:41 - Laying out or constructing public ways in, upon or through burial places; authority
- Section 114:42 - Passage through cemeteries
- Section 114:42A - Visitation hours
- Section 114:42B - Commercial use of cemeteries for photographers or motion pictures; consent; penalties
- Section 114:43 - Erection of buildings upon burial places
- Section 114:43A - Ownership, maintenance and operation of cemeteries; private profit
- Section 114:43B - Sale of cemetery lots and plots for speculative purposes
- Section 114:43C - Disposition of proceeds of sales; liquidation of indebtedness
- Section 114:43D - Location of community mausoleums controlled by churches and religious societies
- Section 114:43E - Erection of community mausoleums; plans and specifications; approval; construction
- Section 114:43F - Community mausoleums; construction; supervision
- Section 114:43G - Use of community mausoleum prior to completion; care and improvement fund
- Section 114:43H - Sale of community mausoleum prior to completion
- Section 114:43I - Removal of bodies constituting menace to public health
- Section 114:43J - Permanent care and improvement fund for community mausoleums
- Section 114:43K - Custodian of fund; administration and investment
- Section 114:43L - Abating or enjoining nuisance
- Section 114:43M - Permanent disposition of dead bodies or remains; records
- Section 114:43N - Penalties
- Section 114:43O - Sale of monuments for cemetery lots by cemetery corporations
- Section 114:44 - Cremation of bodies
- Section 114:44A - Receptacles for cremated remains; caskets
- Section 114:45 - Burial permits; permits for removal of bodies; certificates of death; deceased veterans
- Section 114:45A - Use of name of funeral director in connection with death certificate or burial permit
- Section 114:46 - Permit for burial of bodies brought into commonwealth; certificate; recording
- Section 114:46A - Veterans; burial; affidavit; veteran graves officer
- Section 114:47 - Certificates for burial; indorsement; record; service of deceased as veteran
- Section 114:48 - Burial of ashes of human body; certificates for burial
- Section 114:49 - Licensing of funeral directors; revocation or suspension; hearing; fees; permits
- Section 114:50 - Penalty
- Section 114:51 - Sale of embalming fluid