Money payable or to become payable as the purchase price or on account of the purchase price of unused cemetery lands, or lands from which all remains have been removed is not subject to garnishment, attachment, or execution, but must be used exclusively for any or all of the following purposes:

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 23-21-19

  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor

1.    Acquisition of lands and improvements for cemetery purposes.

2.    Disinterment, removal, and reinterment of bodies, pursuant to this chapter.

3.    Endowment care of graves, markers, and cemetery embellishments.

4.    The payment of expenses incidental to the disinterment, removal, and reinterment.

5.    Any other purpose consistent with the objects for which the cemetery authority owning the cemetery is created or organized.

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