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...orporation, or person in control of any cemetery or a public graveyard in this state shall make a rule or bylaw prohibiting the erection of headstones furnished or approved by the United States government or by the state for the graves of soldiers, sailors, and marines, who have served in the army or navy of the United States or of the state. Any rule or bylaw passed by any cemetery association or corporation, truste...

...A cemetery company or association may adopt rules for disposing of and conveying burial lots; but any person not already the owner of a lot in the cemetery may purchase any unsold lot in it, and have such lot conveyed to him by the company or association upon tender of the usual price asked by it for such lots. Burial lots sold by a cemetery company or association shall be used for the sole purpose of interments, s...

...A cemetery company or association may act either as a soldiers' monumental association or as a cemetery association, and, as it elects, may take charge of the management of cemetery grounds, or monuments especially erected in honor of soldiers or seamen who have died in the service of the state or of the United States or both.

...Every cemetery company or association may take, hold, possess, use, enjoy, and occupy such property of any kind as is given, granted, or devised to it for the purpose of building, repairing, maintaining, adorning, and beautifying fences, graves, vaults, mausoleums, monuments, walks, cemetery lots, drives, or avenues in its cemeteries, and may appropriate such property, or the proceeds thereof, to any of such purposes...

..., repair, and maintenance of a township cemetery; (t) The issuance of revenue obligations under section 140.06 of the Revised Code; (u) The design, construction, reconstruction, renovation, repair, maintenance, and operation of any school athletic facility, school auditorium, or gymnasium or any recreational area or facility, including, but not limited to, any of the following: (i) A park, playground, or playfield...

...d to protect, enclose, or ornament any cemetery; or to a cemetery. (D) No person, without privilege to do so, shall knowingly cause physical harm to a place of burial by breaking and entering into a tomb, crypt, casket, or other structure that is used as a memorial for the dead or as an enclosure for the dead. (E) Whoever violates this section is guilty of vandalism. Except as otherwise provided in this divisi...

...sons within any public burial ground or cemetery, including, but not limited to, cemeteries owned and operated by municipal corporations, townships, or companies or associations incorporated for cemetery purposes. (13) "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, including the functions of caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, see...

... to 4767.11 of the Revised Code: (A) "Cemetery," "interment," "burial right," "entombment right," "columbarium right," and "human remains" have the same meanings as in section 1721.21 of the Revised Code. (B) "Political subdivision" means one or more municipal corporations, townships, or other bodies corporate and politic authorized to operate and maintain a cemetery under the law of this state. (C) "Division of...

...l provide a public road to any township cemetery over which it has control, in the same manner as provided by section 517.01 of the Revised Code for establishing cemeteries and obtaining the land therefor.

...The proceeds arising from the sale of cemetery lots under section 517.07 of the Revised Code shall be used in maintaining, improving, beautifying, and embellishing such grounds, and for maintaining and improving entombments, including mausoleums, columbariums, and other interment rights, except that upon unanimous consent of the board of township trustees, such proceeds may be used in the purchase or appropriation o...

...ublic, but not expressly dedicated as a cemetery, except such as are owned or under the care of a religious or benevolent society, or an incorporated company or association, or under the control of the authorities of any municipal corporation, shall, severally be vested in the board of township trustees.

...The board of township trustees may make rules specifying the times when cemeteries under its control shall be closed to the public. The board shall cause the rules to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation within the township; (B) On the official public notice web site established und...

...t three directors to take charge of any cemetery in the township, the control of which is vested in such board. The first appointments shall be for one, two, and three years respectively. The order appointing a director shall designate, by name, the cemeteries over which he shall have supervision. Each year one director shall be appointed to serve for three years from the second Monday of May succeeding his appoint...

...ove the undergrowth and weeds from such cemetery at least once a year, and pay the expense thereof from township funds.

...apter 353. of the Revised Code; a union cemetery district; a county school financing district; a city, local, exempted village, cooperative education, joint vocational school district; a regional student education district created under section 3313.83 of the Revised Code; or a career-technical cooperative education district created under section 3313.831 of the Revised Code. (B) "Municipal corporation" means all ...

...rporation may enter into contracts with cemetery associations providing for the purchase and maintenance, in cemeteries within the county, of plots of ground for the burial of deceased veterans and the deceased spouses of veterans. Any such purchase may be made either by cash or by installment payments. The purchase price and maintenance cost of all such burial plots shall be paid from the treasury of the county, tow...

... remains of any deceased veteran in any cemetery not having a burial plot as provided by section 5901.22 of the Revised Code, the board of county commissioners, any board of township trustees, or the legislative authority of any municipal corporation in the county in which the cemetery is situated may purchase a space for the grave of the veteran or the veteran's cremated remains, provide for the care of the plot, an...

...In any county having a cemetery or part of it set apart for the burial of veterans, or containing a monument erected to their memory, or containing monuments and memorials erected by private or public expense to the memory of veterans, the board of county commissioners shall care for and properly preserve that portion of the cemetery so set apart for the burial of such veterans, and shall care for and properly preser...

...the municipal corporation in which such cemetery or burial ground is located.

...e shall determine the size and price of cemetery lots, the terms of payment therefor, and shall give to each purchaser a receipt, showing the amount paid and a pertinent description of the lots sold. Upon producing such receipt to the proper officer, such purchaser shall be entitled to a deed for the lots described therein. No more shall be charged for lots than is necessary to reimburse the city for the expense of ...

...or held by him as a permanent fund, for cemetery purposes, or such money as may thereafter come to him for such purposes, and shall render a full statement thereof, by whom, when, and for what purpose paid. The legislative authority shall acknowledge receipt thereof to the director in writing signed by its clerk. By resolution duly passed and entered on the minutes of its proceedings, the legislative authority shal...

...illage owning a public burial ground or cemetery may appoint a board to be known as the board of cemetery trustees. Such board shall consist of three members, whose term of office shall be three years, but the term of office of the members first appointed shall extend until the first municipal election thereafter, and until the officers chosen at such election are qualified and placed in office. Thereafter the mayor...

...A cemetery owned in common as provided by section 759.27 of the Revised Code, shall be under the control and management of the board of township trustees and the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations, and their authority over it and duties in relation thereto shall be the same as where the cemetery is the exclusive property of a single municipal corporation. A board of union cemetery trustees may fix...

... any kind shall be made by the board of cemetery trustees of a cemetery owned in common as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code in favor of one municipal corporation against another, or in favor of a municipal corporation against a township, or in favor of a township against a municipal corporation, but the affairs of the cemetery shall in all respects be managed as though it were owned and governed in the ...

...township adjoining one in which a union cemetery is established as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code, may, by the consent of the board of township trustees of the latter township and of the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations, be admitted to an equal participation with the inhabitants thereof in the rights and privileges in the cemetery, upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon, but ...