HB 961

Abstract

Cemeteries; registration; publication prior to sale. Expands provisions that allow localities to adopt an ordinance setting forth a register of identified cemeteries, graveyards, or other places of burial located on private property not belonging to any memorial or monumental association by providing that such localities shall publish a notice prior to the public sale of any publicly owned property that contains a known cemetery, graveyard, or other place of burial, or as soon thereafter as possible. The notice shall specify that a cemetery is present on the property. If the property falls under an exception provided for significant historic and archeological sites that would be jeopardized by public disclosure of their location, then no such notice is required.

Cemeteries; registration; publication prior to sale. Expands provisions that allow localities to adopt an ordinance setting forth a register of identified cemeteries, graveyards, or other places of burial located on private property not belonging to any memorial or monumental association by providing that such localities shall publish a notice prior to the public sale of any publicly owned property that contains a cemetery, graveyard, or other place of burial, or as soon thereafter as possible. The notice shall specify that a cemetery is present on the property. If the property falls under an exception provided for significant historic and archeological sites that would be jeopardized by public disclosure of their location, then no such notice is required.

Cemeteries; registration; publication priorto sale. Requires every locality to adopt an ordinance settingforth a register of identified cemeteries, graveyards, or other placesof burial located on private property not belonging to any memorialor monumental association. The bill provides that the official localregister shall include an official map and that both the register and map shall be available on the locality's website, if one exists.The bill also provides that the governing body shall publish a noticein a newspaper having general circulation in the locality at leasttwo weeks prior to the sale of any property on such registry, oras soon thereafter as possible, and shall also publish the noticeon the locality's website, if one exists.