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Subject: Missouri cemetery laws continued
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 18:01:09 -0500 (EST)
3. In additon to those powers granted the attorney general in subsection 2
of this section, every municipality or county in which any abandoned cemetery
is located may acquire through its power of eminent domain such cemetery,
together with all endowed care funds, maintainec equipment, books and
records, accounts receivable and other personal property used or created in
the operation of the cemetery and owned or controlled by the person or
association which owns the cemetery. The municipality or county shall
acquire the cemetery and related property subject to the rights of owners
of burial lots or other interment spaces. Upon so acquiring the cemetery and
related property, the acquiring municipality or county shall operate and
maintain the cemetery as a public cemetery. The municipality or county which
so acquires an abandoned cemetery shall not be liable for any act, or
transaction which occurred prior to such acquisition, including, without
limitation, any obligation to third parties, or incorrect lot ownership or
burial records.
I believe these records to be about 6 years old, when last rewritten.( some
parts).The rest of what I have are about new or operation procedures.
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