In determining the escheat of any vacant cemetery lots or grave spaces to any municipalities, corporations, associations or other owners of cemeteries, the court shall hear proof, and if satisfied that it would be best for the vacant cemetery lots or grave spaces to escheat, shall decree accordingly.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 46-2-105
Hearing and decree of escheat
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case State v. Burns (1999)
Most recently applied in State v. Burns (November 1999)
Acts 1955, ch. 279, § 3; T.C.A., § 46-311; T.C.A., § 46-3-111; T.C.A., § 46-3-112; Acts 2006, ch. 1012, § 5.
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