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...the establishment or control of a union cemetery, or both, may, by a resolution of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or of the board of township trustees and with the consent of the legislative authorities of the remaining municipal corporations and the boards of the remaining townships, withdraw from the management and control of such cemetery and relinquish interest therein. Thereupon the cemet...

...ustees of a township, may purchase, for cemetery purposes, from an incorporated cemetery association the lands, lots, and improvements of such association remaining unsold and take a conveyance thereof. Such purchase money shall be applied to the payment of the legal debts of the association, and to the embellishment and preservation of the land purchased, and such other purposes as the trustees of the cemetery direc...

...ving control and management of a public cemetery, acting under sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may acquire property necessary, in the judgment of a majority of them, for a better approach thereto. No lot or parcel of land or part thereof upon which a dwelling house is situated shall be so appropriated. Such property may be acquired by gift, purchase, appropriation, or by exchange therefor o...

...hip or municipal corporation owning the cemetery. The officers making such exchange shall execute, in the name of the township or municipal corporation, conveyances of the property so exchanged. No property shall be acquired by purchase or appropriation unless the money necessary to pay for it is in the cemetery fund. Land so acquired may not be used for burial purposes nor be subject to statutory restrictions again...

...No person shall operate a pet cemetery in this state that is less than three acres in size, unless such cemetery was organized or developed and was operating on the effective date of this section.

...blic library, county law library, union cemetery, joint hospital, institutional commissary, state university, or board, bureau, commission, council, committee, authority, or administrative body as the same are, or have been, created by action of the general assembly or by the legislative authority of any of the units of local government named in division (A)(1) of this section, or employed and paid in whole or in par...

... metropolitan housing authority, union cemetery, joint hospital, township, or institutional commissary employee member of the system, who shall be elected by ballot by the park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, metropolitan housing authority, public library, union cemetery, joint hospital, township, and institutional commissary employee members of the system from among their n...

...d Code do not apply to a corporation or cemetery association owning a cemetery smaller than four acres and situated within one mile of the corporate limits of a municipal corporation.

...en in the judgment of the officers of a cemetery association it is necessary to secure additional land for the purpose of making an entrance to its ground, or to improve an entrance already made, the officers may apply to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the cemetery is located for the appointment of appraisers. Upon such application being made, such board shall proceed in accordance with sect...

...Every cemetery company or association shall cause a plat of its grounds and of the lots laid out by it to be made and to be recorded or filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which they are situated, numbering the lots by regular consecutive numbers. It may inclose, improve, and adorn the grounds and avenues, erect buildings for its use, prescribe rules for inclosing and adorning lots and for ere...

...nstallation of a burial receptacle in a cemetery for human remains, except when such charge is for service actually performed, or expense actually incurred in aid of said installation. Charges under this exception shall be equal for similar services in the same cemetery.

...reneed funeral contract or preneed cemetery merchandise and services contract.

...ical or environmental conditions of the cemetery or other location of the deceased person's bodily remains or the surrounding area; (b) A change to the financial condition of the cemetery operator or organization containing the deceased person's bodily remains; (c) A change related to the residence of the deceased person's family members; (d) A change to the burial arrangements for the deceased person's fami...

... a just amount paid by the person to a cemetery association or corporation as a perpetual fund for caring for and preserving the lot on which the deceased is buried: (A) An executor; (B) An administrator; (C) A person with the right of disposition under section 2108.70 or 2108.81 of the Revised Code. It is not incumbent on such a person to procure a tombstone or monument or to pay any sum into such fund.

...ion, discharge a firearm upon or over a cemetery or within one hundred yards of a cemetery; (2) Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, discharge a firearm on a lawn, park, pleasure ground, orchard, or other ground appurtenant to a schoolhouse, church, or inhabited dwelling, the property of another, or a charitable institution; (3) Discharge a firearm upon or over a public road or highway. (B)(1) Division (A)(...

...y structure, Indian mound or earthwork, cemetery, thing, or site of great historical or archaeological interest; (4) A place of worship, its furnishings, or religious artifacts or sacred texts within the place of worship or within the grounds upon which the place of worship is located; (5) A work of art or museum piece; (6) Any other object of reverence or sacred devotion. (B) Whoever violates this section is gui...

...rve and three members designated by the cemetery dispute resolution commission shall designate, by a majority vote, one person who holds a crematory operator permit, who is experienced in the operation of a crematory facility, and who is not affiliated with a cemetery or a funeral home to serve on the crematory review board for such time as the crematory review board finds appropriate. Members serving on the cremator...

...(A) The board of embalmers and funeral directors shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for the government, transaction of the business, and the management of the affairs of the board of embalmers and funeral directors and the crematory review board, and for the administration and enforcement of this chapter. These rules shall include all of the following: (1) The nature, scope, cont...

... in a funeral home, embalming facility, cemetery building, or other building in which the crematory facility may lawfully operate. If a crematory facility engages in the cremation of animals, the crematory facility shall cremate animals in a cremation chamber that also is not used to cremate dead human bodies or human body parts and shall not cremate animals in a cremation chamber used for the cremation of dead human...

...4) Transactions involving the sale of a cemetery lot or a cemetery interment right. (E) The licensee is obligated to perform all duties imposed on a real estate agent at common law except to the extent the duties are inconsistent with the duties prescribed in this chapter or are otherwise modified by agreement.

... the department of commerce or the Ohio cemetery dispute resolution commission, on the superintendent's or commission's own motion or as a result of a complaint received pursuant to section 4767.07 of the Revised Code and with good cause shown, shall investigate or cause to be investigated alleged violations of sections 1721.19, 1721.20, 1721.21, 1721.211, 4735.02, 4767.02, 4767.03, and 4767.09 of the Revised Code. I...

...company. When there is a public park or cemetery on the line of such railway, within one mile of, and owned by, such municipal corporation, such company for such fare must so transport passengers to and from such park or cemetery the same as if either was within the limits of such corporation.

...highway leading from a city to a public cemetery of such city located within or without the limits of the city, shall be constructed so as to pass under or over such avenue or highway at an elevation or depression that will allow the unobstructed passage of all vehicles necessary for any person to use on such avenue or highway.

... create a separate compilation for each cemetery located on the grounds of or adjacent to the grounds of a public hospital that is under the control of the department on March 31, 2005. The compilation shall be created within a reasonable time not exceeding three years after March 31, 2005. The department shall use its best efforts to create the most complete compilations possible using records in the departmen...

... the question of the establishment of a cemetery. If a majority of the votes cast at the election on the proposition is in favor of establishing a cemetery, the board of township trustees shall procure the lands for that purpose and levy taxes as provided by section 517.03 of the Revised Code.