No municipality shall alienate or appropriate any ancient burial place to any use other than that of a burial ground. No portion of any ancient burial place shall be taken for public use without the approval of the General Assembly. If any ancient burial place is appropriated for any other use and the bodies buried therein or the grave markers marking the same are removed, the burial ground authority shall preserve a record of such removal indicating the date of such removal and the site or place to which such removal was made.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-315a
Use of ancient burial place
(P.A. 84-280, S. 2; P.A. 85-319, S. 2.) History: P.A. 85-319 inserted “grave marker” in place of “monuments, gravestones or other memorials”.
Official source: Connecticut General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Connecticut statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.