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