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...If it is necessary for a cemetery company or association, for cemetery purposes, to acquire lands by appropriation, such proceedings shall be taken therefor as are provided for in sections 163.01 to 163.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code. No lands shall be appropriated until the probate court or court of common pleas is satisfied that suitable premises cannot be obtained by contract upon reasonable terms, and no land...

... shall not be appropriated, nor shall a cemetery be located, by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes or by a benevolent or religious society, within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, unless the owner of such dwelling house gives his consent, or unless the entire tract appropriated is a necessary addition to or enlargement of a cemetery already in use. The limit shall not be less than one hundred yar...

...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...

...n 3705.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A cemetery company or association may prescribe rules for the burial, re-interment, or disinterment of the product of a fetal death. (C) With regard to the product of a fetal death, on the request of the mother and in compliance with cemetery company or association rules, a cemetery company or association shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one ...

...the re-interment or disinterment to the cemetery and comply with any rules adopted under division (B) of section 1721.071 of the Revised Code. (B) If two surviving parents are indicated on the cemetery's burial documents for the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 1721.071 of the Revised Code and only one has given consent under division (A) of this section, prior to ...

...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...

... such for fifteen years are exempt from sale on execution on a judgment, dower, and compulsory partition; but land appropriated and set apart as a private burial ground is not so exempt if it exceeds in value the sum of fifty dollars. The lien for taxes against such burial grounds may be enforced in the same manner prescribed for abandoned lands under sections 323.65 to 323.79 of the Revised Code except that the bur...

...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...

...tees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, whether it is incorporated or unincorporated, and a board of township trustees having charge of township cemeteries, may appoint day and night watchmen for their grounds. All such watchmen, and all superintendents, gardeners, and agents of such company or association or of such board, who are stationed on the cemetery grounds may take and subsc...

...A cemetery association may create a sinking fund, either out of surplus money on hand, or out of money which has been given to the association by will, deed, or otherwise. The association may invest money appropriated to such sinking fund in bonds of the United States, of the state of Ohio, or of a city therein, or may loan such money upon first mortgage of real estate in this state worth double the loan or upon col...

...ociation of persons who are acting as a cemetery association, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and have purchased and improved land for cemetery purposes, the welfare of all concerned in the lands purchased and improved would be subserved by transferring such lands and improvements and other assets of such association to another association incorporated under the laws of this state for cemetery purposes, said ...

...Any company or association incorporated for the erection and maintenance of a crematory may exercise all the rights and powers conferred by sections 1721.01 to 1721.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, subject to the conditions provided in such sections. No building shall be erected for such a purpose within two hundred yards of a dwelling house unless the owner of the dwelling house gives his consent. No person, comp...

...tees, directors, or other officers of a cemetery company or association, or by a board of township trustees having charge of township cemeteries, with reference to the protection, good order, and preservation of cemeteries, and the trees, shrubbery, structures, and adornments therein. (B)(1) A watchperson, superintendent, gardener, or agent of a cemetery company or association who has probable cause to believe that ...

...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.

...(A) A contract for the sale of mausoleum space that is not ready for the entombment of human remains on the date of the contract shall stipulate that the buyer may cancel the contract if either of the following conditions apply: (1) The construction of the mausoleum has not begun within the time period specified in the contract, which shall be not later than three years after the date of the contract; (2) The certi...

...(A) Whoever violates section 1721.19 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 1721.20 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. (C) Whoever violates section 1721.21 or 1721.211 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.

...All proceedings for the sale of lands by executors, administrators, and guardians shall be in accordance with section 2127.01 to 2127.43, inclusive, of the Revised Code, except where the executor has testamentary power of sale, and in that case the executor may proceed under such sections or under the will.

...nistrator may sell at public or private sale, grant options to sell, exchange, re-exchange, or otherwise dispose of any parcel of real property belonging to the estate at any time at prices and upon terms that are consistent with this section and may execute and deliver deeds and other instruments of conveyance if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The surviving spouse, all of the legatees and devise...

...he estate may sell at public or private sale, grant options to sell, exchange, re-exchange, or otherwise dispose of any parcel of real estate belonging to the estate at any time, at prices, and upon terms that are consistent with this section, and may execute and deliver deeds and other instruments of conveyance if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The ward's spouse and all persons entitled to the next e...

...As soon as an executor or administrator ascertains that the personal property in the possession or under the control of the executor or administrator is insufficient to pay all the debts of the decedent, together with the allowance for support to the surviving spouse, minor children, or surviving spouse and minor children of the decedent as provided in section 2106.13 of the Revised Code, and the costs of admin...

...When by operation of law or the provisions of a will, a legacy is effectual to charge real property, and the personal property is insufficient to pay the legacy, together with all the debts, the allowance to the surviving spouse, minor children, or surviving spouse and minor children as provided in section 2106.13 of the Revised Code, and the costs of administering the estate, the executor, administrator, or administ...

... The court shall not issue an order of sale in the action unless one of the categories specified in divisions (B)(1)(a), (b), and (c), (B)(2)(a), (b), and (c), and (B)(3) of this section applies: (1)(a) At least fifty per cent of all the persons interested in the real property proposed to be sold have consented to the sale. (b) Prior to the issuance of the order, no written objection is filed with the court b...

... be made, or whenever it appears that a sale of the real property will be for the benefit of the ward or the ward's children, the guardian of the person and estate or of the estate only of a minor,incompetent adult, or other person under disability may commence a civil action in the probate court for authority to sell all or any part of the real property of the ward. If it appears to the advantage of the ward to lay ...