Chapter
CEMETERY CORPORATIONS
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-1— Cemetery corporations authorized--Nonprofit corporation law as applicable
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-2— Permissible bylaw provisions--General management--Conformity with other corporation law
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-3— Cemetery lot owners as members of corporation--Vote--Jointly owned lots--Proxy voting
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-4— Quorum of members--Proxies counted
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-5— Notice of election of directors--Publication of notice--Time of publication--Notice of other meetings
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-6— Directors required to be members
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-7— Grounds previously used for burial--Lot owners as members of corporation
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-8— Transfer of lot to individual owner for burial--Succession to ownership of lot--Joint owners
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-9— Failure to inter or care for lot or mausoleum--Resale of lot--Transfer of mausoleum to municipality--Notice required
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-10— Other laws applicable to nonperpetual care cemeteries
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-11— Power of corporation to hold real estate--Maximum holdings--Platting and sale of lots
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-12— Additional holdings of real property--Sale of additional holdings
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-13— Surveying and platting of cemetery grounds--Recordation--Lot numbering
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-14— Sale of unplatted and unused ground
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-15— Sale of platted but unused, unsold and unneeded ground--Determination by governing body of corporation--Confirmation
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-16— Circuit court petition for confirmation--Contents of petition--Hearing--Notice of hearing--Method of notice--Including multiple tracts in petition
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-17— Order granting or denying petition--Order as conclusive absent appeal
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-18— Judgment as vacating plat or survey--Replatting
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-19— Extension of cemetery boundaries--Purchase of lands--Condemnation of lands--Condemnation laws applicable
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-20— Improvements on cemetery lands--Prohibited uses
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-21— Authorization to hold personal property
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-22— Authorization to establish perpetual fund--Donations--Election of trustees--Bond and accounting of trustees
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-23— Distribution of proceeds from sale of cemetery lots--Use in care of cemetery--Expenses--Profit prohibited
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-24— Percentage of proceeds used to pay debts
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-25— Cemetery property as exempt from taxation and local assessments--Appropriation for state highway purposes of unused lands
- S.D. Codified Laws § 47-29-26— Validation of previous cemetery lot deeds