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Subject: [Alabama] Cemetery laws in AL
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 05:23:57 EDT

Some nice lady pointed me to this in answer to my question. What could we do,
as genealogists, to make this more than a misdemeanor in AL?

Yvonne

http://www.savinggraves.com/index.htm
Section 13A-7-23.1
Desecration, defacement, etc., of memorial of dead; invasion or mutilation of
corpse.
(a) Any person who willfully or maliciously injures, defaces, removes or
destroys any tomb, monument, gravestone or other memorial of the dead, or any
fence or any inclosure about any tomb, monument, gravestone or memorial, or
who willfully and wrongfully destroys, removes, cuts, breaks or injures any
tree, shrub, plant, flower, decoration, or other real or personal property
within any cemetery or graveyard shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

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