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“Municipal and maintenance district cemeteries -- Rights of lot holders -- Compensation -- Perpetual care charges. The owner, grantee, or person claiming through the grantee shall have the right, on presentation of the certificate of title”
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Municipal and maintenance district cemeteries -- Rights of lot holders -- Compensation -- Perpetual care charges. The owner, grantee, or person claiming through the grantee shall have the right, on presentation of the certificate of title
Section 8-5-8
An owner, grantee, or successor may claim compensation or burial rights from a municipality or cemetery maintenance district after presenting the certificate, if the lot or parcel has reverted.
Section 8-5-8(1)
receive a right to burial to another lot or parcel if the right to burial or title to the lot or parcel has been sold by the municipality or cemetery maintenance district; or
Section 8-5-8(1)(b)
A person may receive the right to burial for a lot or parcel if the municipality or cemetery maintenance district has not already sold that right.
Section 8-5-8(1)(c)
This section does not stop a municipality or cemetery maintenance district from collecting unpaid perpetual care charges from a person claiming title or the right to burial.
Section 8-5-8(2)
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