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Code of the District of Columbia
Title 43
Chapter 1
Cemetery Associations; Regulatory Provisions.
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43-101
Incorporation; powers.
43-102
Powers to acquire and sell land.
43-103
Burial ground to be platted and surveyed.
43-104
Inclosure and ornamentation of land; purchase of equipment.
43-105
Duty to inclose and underdrain.
43-106
Application of proceeds of sales of lots.
43-107
Officers enumerated; term of office; effect of failure to choose officers.
43-108
Election of officers.
43-109
Lot owners are voting members of corporation.
43-110
Bylaws.
43-111
Exemption from taxation and sale on execution.
43-112
Dedication of land; title vested in perpetuity.
43-113
Grants and bequests for care of lots.
43-114
Distance from City and from dwellings.
43-115
Mayor authorized to license certain lands for cemetery purposes.
43-116
Lots to be conspicuously marked; plat to be recorded; size and depth of graves.
43-117
Register of burials; contents.
43-118
Superintendent of cemetery to register at Department of Health.
43-119
Movement or disposal of tissue taken from dead body.
43-120
Keeping and exhibiting dead bodies.
43-121
Place of burial.
43-122
Mode of burial.
43-123
Reopening graves; graves of pestilential disease victims.
43-124
Crematories; consent of property owners; permit.
43-125
Embalming; removal of tissue immediately after death.
43-126
Penalty.
43-127
Prosecutions.
43-128
Court-ordered disinterment or disposal of ashes not affected.
43-129
Cremation required in certain cases.
Repealed
43-130
Public crematory established.
Repealed
43-131
Act for promotion of anatomical science not affected by crematory law.