SB72 Alabama 2010 Session

Under existing law, the abandonment of a cemetery may be declared by certain entities or individuals and provisions made for reinterment

This bill would provide further for the abandonment of cemeteries by requiring the consent of the governing body of the municipality or county where the cemetery is located

This bill would require that when remains are reinterred, a copy of the map or plat where the remains are reinterred or deposited be filed with the office of probate in the county where the cemetery is located and that grave objects be relocated and reinstalled with the human remains at the new burial site

This bill would further provide for the maintenance of cemeteries that are presumed abandoned

This bill would provide that counties and municipalities would not be subject to civil liability for certain damage to property and would allow counties and municipalities to maintain an action against the owner to recover certain costs

To amend Sections 11-47-60, 11-47-68, and 11-47-70, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to reinterment and abandonment of cemeteries, to require the approval of the governing body of the municipality or county to declare a cemetery abandoned, and to further provide for reinterment.