District of Columbia Title 43 — Cemeteries and Crematories
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- D.C. Code § 43-101— Incorporation; powers
- D.C. Code § 43-102— Powers to acquire and sell land
- D.C. Code § 43-103— Burial ground to be platted and surveyed
- D.C. Code § 43-104— Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment
- D.C. Code § 43-105— Duty to inclose and underdrain
- D.C. Code § 43-106— Application of proceeds of sales of lots
- D.C. Code § 43-107— Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers
- D.C. Code § 43-108— Election of officers
- D.C. Code § 43-109— Lot owners are voting members of corporation
- D.C. Code § 43-110— Bylaws
- D.C. Code § 43-111— Exemption from taxation and sale on execution
- D.C. Code § 43-112— Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity
- D.C. Code § 43-113— Grants and bequests for care of lots
- D.C. Code § 43-114— Distance from City and from dwellings
- D.C. Code § 43-115— Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes
- D.C. Code § 43-116— Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves
- D.C. Code § 43-117— Register of burials; contents
- D.C. Code § 43-118— Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Health
- D.C. Code § 43-119— Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body
- D.C. Code § 43-120— Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies
- D.C. Code § 43-121— Place of burial
- D.C. Code § 43-122— Mode of burial
- D.C. Code § 43-123— Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims
- D.C. Code § 43-124— Crematories; consent of property owners; permit
- D.C. Code § 43-125— Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death
- D.C. Code § 43-126— Penalty
- D.C. Code § 43-127— Prosecutions
- D.C. Code § 43-128— Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected
- D.C. Code § 43-129— Cremation required in certain cases
- D.C. Code § 43-130— Public crematory established
- D.C. Code § 43-131— Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law