§ 307.01 — Plat and Record
Plain-Language Summary
Private individuals and religious corporations can establish a cemetery on their own land by surveying it, creating a plat, marking a corner with a monument, and filing the plat with the county recorder. Cemetery lots can be subdivided later without a new county filing if markers are placed.
307.01 PLAT AND RECORD.
Any private person and any religious corporation may establish a cemetery on the person’s or corporation’s own land in the following manner: The land shall be surveyed and a plat thereof made. A stone or other monument shall be established to mark one corner of such cemetery, and its location shall be designated on the plat. The plat and the correctness thereof shall be certified by the surveyor, whose certificate shall be endorsed thereon, and with such endorsement shall be filed for record with the county recorder in the county where the cemetery is located, showing the area and location of the cemetery. Any person or association owning such private cemetery may subdivide or rearrange the same, from time to time, as may be necessary in the conduct of the business, but no plat of such subdivision or rearrangement shall interfere with the rights and privileges of the several lot owners of such cemetery without their consent, nor need same be filed in the office of the county recorder; provided, that a plat of the same shall be kept for public inspection at such cemetery; and, provided, further, that there shall be placed at the corner of each lot of such subdivision or rearrangement cement or other nondestructible markers three inches or more in diameter and eight inches or more in length, one of such markers showing the number of the lot.
History:
(7625) RL s 2960; 1923 c 360 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444
History: History: (7625) RL s 2960; 1923 c 360 s 1; 1976 c 181 s 2; 1986 c 444