§ 517.01 Acquisition or appropriation of land
§ 517.02 Public road to cemetery
§ 517.03 Levy and taxes for expenses
§ 517.04 Vote on establishment of cemetery
§ 517.05 Notice of election – ballots
§ 517.06 Cemetery plat
§ 517.07 Sale of cemetery lots
§ 517.071 Rules governing product of fetal death
§ 517.072 Reinterment or disinterment of product of fetal death
§ 517.073 Authority for reentry for unused lots or rights
§ 517.08 Expenditure of proceeds – exception
§ 517.09 No levy on lots
§ 517.10 Title to certain burial grounds vested in board of township trustees
§ 517.11 Care of cemetery
§ 517.12 Regulating hours of access to cemeteries
§ 517.13 Additions to cemetery grounds
§ 517.14 Public cemetery on township lines – joint township cemetery
§ 517.15 Cemetery endowment fund
§ 517.19 Tax levy for buildings upon grounds of cemetery – bond issue
§ 517.20 Appointment of directors of township cemetery
§ 517.21 Abandonment or discontinuance of cemetery – removal of bodies and stones
§ 517.22 Public sale of cemetery
§ 517.23 Disinterment of body buried in cemetery
§ 517.24 Form of application for disinterment
§ 517.25 Writ of mandamus
§ 517.26 Removal of dead
§ 517.27 Transfer of cemeteries to board of township trustees
§ 517.271 Transfer of cemetery ownership rights to most recent owner
§ 517.28 Abandonment of cemetery owned by municipal corporation
§ 517.29 Neglect of order by municipal corporation shall cause execution sale
§ 517.30 Trustees may erect monument commemorating members of armed forces
§ 517.31 Care of monument
§ 517.32 Enclosure of abandoned cemetery

Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 517 - Cemeteries

  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Bequest: Property gifted by will.
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Devise: To gift property by will.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • in writing: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures; this provision does not affect any law relating to signatures. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Intestate: Dying without leaving a will.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Registered mail: includes certified mail and "certified mail" includes registered mail. See Ohio Code 1.02
  • state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.