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...nd other interment rights, the board of township trustees may levy a tax sufficient for that purpose.

... cemetery, on the order of the board of township trustees or the written application of any six electors of the township, shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of such township at a regular annual election. Such order or application shall specify as nearly as possible the proposed location of the cemetery, and the estimated cost thereof, including enclosing and improving it.

...ertify the order or application to the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the election, and, at least twenty days before an election, the fiscal officer shall post written notices in at least three public places in the township that a vote will be taken on the question of the establishment of a cemetery. If a majority of the votes cast at the election on the propo...

...The board of township trustees shall have the cemetery laid out in lots, avenues, and paths, shall number the lots, and shall have a suitable plat of the lots made, which plat shall be carefully kept by the township fiscal officer. The board shall make and enforce all needful rules and regulations for the division of the cemetery into lots, for the allotment of lots to families or individuals, and for the care,...

...(A) Upon application, the board of township trustees shall sell at a reasonable price the number of lots as public wants demand for burial purposes. Purchasers of lots or other interment rights, upon complying with the terms of sale, may receive deeds for the lots or rights which the board shall execute. The township fiscal officer shall record each deed in a book the township keeps for that purpose or with the count...

... of the Revised Code. (B) A board of township trustees may adopt rules for any township cemetery over which it has control 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 rules, a township cemetery shall inter the product of the fetal death in accordance with one of t...

...the re-interment or disinterment to the township cemetery and comply with any rules adopted under division (B) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code. (B) If two surviving parents are indicated on the township cemetery's burial documents for the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 517.071 of the Revised Code and only one has given consent under division (A) of this se...

...(A) The board of township trustees may reenter a lot for which the terms of sale or deed was executed before July 24, 1986, or an entombment, including a mausoleum, columbarium, or other interment right for which the terms of sale or deed was executed before September 29, 2015, if the board determines the lot or right is unused and adopts a resolution creating a procedure for right of reentry in accordance with this ...

... upon unanimous consent of the board of township trustees, such proceeds may be used in the purchase or appropriation of additional land for cemetery purposes in accordance with sections 517.01 and 517.13 of the Revised Code; and the board of township trustees may build and maintain proper and secure fences around all such cemeteries, to be paid for from the township funds.

...No lot held by any individual in a cemetery, shall, in any case, be levied on or sold on execution.

...ll, severally be vested in the board of township trustees.

...The board of township trustees shall provide for the protection and preservation of cemeteries under its jurisdiction, and shall prohibit interments therein when new grounds have been procured for township cemeteries or burial grounds. Where such old cemeteries are in or near village plats, and the public health is liable to be injured by further interments therein, the board shall institute suits to recover possessi...

...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...

...of an existing cemetery if the township zoning ordinances do not prohibit such use. Lands appropriated for the expansion of a cemetery shall not be appropriated within fifty feet of a dwelling house or other building and shall be considered a part of the original cemetery even though separated therefrom by a road or highway. For such purpose the board may expend funds as provided in section 517.08 of the Revised Cod...

...ore townships for burying purposes, the boards of township trustees of such townships shall jointly take possession thereof, and care for and keep it in repair, as in the case of cemeteries belonging to a township. The board of each township shall levy taxes needed for such cemetery, not to exceed one-fourth per cent in any year. Two or more townships may join in establishing and maintaining a cemetery, and for such ...

...A board of township trustees may create a permanent cemetery endowment fund for the purpose of maintaining, improving, and beautifying township cemeteries and burial lots in township cemeteries. The fund shall consist of money arising from the following sources: (A) Gifts, devises, or bequests received for the purpose of maintaining, improving, or beautifying township cemeteries; (B) Charges added to the price regu...

... grounds of a cemetery association, the board of township trustees may levy a tax, not exceeding five mills on the dollar of the tax duplicate of the township, for the purpose of erecting permanent buildings upon such cemetery grounds. Such tax, when it has been assessed and collected, shall be paid to the officers of such cemetery association, and shall be applied by them to the erection of such permanent buildings...

...The board of township trustees may appoint 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 sec...

...as been abandoned, or when the board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery association are of the opinion that the further use for burial purposes of a cemetery will be detrimental to the public welfare or health, and a cemetery in the near vicinity is open for public use, the board, trustees, or directors may order that the abandoned cemetery or the cemetery whose further use for burial pur...

...The board of township trustees or the trustees or directors of a cemetery association may dispose of, at public sale, and convey any cemetery under their control that they have determined to discontinue as burial grounds, after notice has first been given using at least one of the following methods: (A) In the print or digital edition of a newspaper of general circulation in the county; (B) On the official public...

..., and (F) of this section, the board of township trustees, the trustees or directors of a cemetery association, or the other officers having control and management of a cemetery or the officer of a municipal corporation who has control and management of a municipal cemetery shall disinter or grant permission to disinter any remains interred in the cemetery in either of the following circumstances: (1) Within thirty...

...he decedent's will; and to the board of township trustees, the trustees or directors of a cemetery association, or the other officers having control and management of the cemetery in which the remains of the decedent are interred or to the officer of a municipal corporation who has control and management of a municipal cemetery in which the remains of the decedent are interred. The notice shall indicate that an appli...

...If the board of township trustees, the trustees or board of a cemetery association, or the other officers in charge of a cemetery refuse to disinter or grant permission for disinterment after a person makes application under division (A)(1) of section 517.23 or under division (B)(1) of section 517.24 of the Revised Code, the probate court of the county in which the decedent is buried shall issue a writ of mandamus re...

...t of a householder of the township, the board of township trustees immediately shall issue an order to the sexton or other person in charge of the vault or receptacle to have the remains immediately interred. If the interment is neglected for three days after the complaint, any judge of the county court within the county may issue a written order to a householder of the township to inter the remains at the expense of...

...trol is vested in an association or its board of trustees, or is vested in a religious society, whether incorporated or not, or in its board of trustees, and such cemetery is used exclusively for cemetery purposes, such association, society, or board of trustees may convey such grounds to the board of township trustees and its successors in office. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, and subject to th...