No person or persons or cemetery association shall lay out any new cemetery, or part of any cemetery, within the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, nor in said District, within one and one-half miles from the boundaries of said City; no person or cemetery association shall, in said District, lay out any cemetery, or part of any cemetery, within less than 200 yards of any dwelling house, except with the written consent of the owner, lessee, and occupant of such house, nor without a permit to do so from the Mayor of said District.
D.C. Code § 43-114
Distance from City and from dwellings
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1295, ch. 854, § 670; Apr. 9, 1997, D.C
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