To all those interested in the pioneer cemeteries:
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>From: "Lois Mauk" <lawofficeinformationsystem(a)worldnet.att.net>
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>Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:56:08 -0500
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>Subject: [INPCRP-L] New Summary of SB 280
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>The following is the revised draft of Senate Bill 280, the Bill establishing
>the procedure for lawfully moving a grave or cemetery:
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> DIGEST OF SB280 (Updated February 2, 1999 5:33 pm - DI 84)
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> Protecting old cemeteries from desecration. Requires that the
> person effecting disinterment, removal, and reinterment of a grave
> give 60 days written notice to the decedent's next of kin and
> publish the notice in a newspaper of general circulation. Requires
> the person effecting the removal of graves to file a certificate of
> removal facts with the county recorder in the county from which
> the graves were removed and the county in which reinterment is
> made. Requires that the certificate of removal facts list
> information contained on the gravestone or other markers, such
> as the birth date, death date, and family name. Requires that
> all expenses associated with the disinterment, removal,
> acquisition of the new burial site, and reinterment be paid by
> the person effecting the disinterment, removal, acquisition,
> and reinterment. Requires the person effecting the disinterment,
> removal, and reinterment to ensure that the site for reinterment
> is suitable and reasonably accessible to relatives of the
> decedent. Requires that disinterment, removal, and
> reinterment be performed under the supervision and direction
> of the county executive or the county executive's designee.
> Requires that due care be taken to furnish suitable coffins or
> boxes for reinterring human remains and to remove, protect,
> and replace [MEANING "REINSTALL"] all gravestones or
> other markers. Exempts a church, a religious institution,
> or a religious society from the act.
>
>The status and full text of this Bill is available at:
>http://www.state.in.us/cgi-bin/legislative/bills/completeBillInfo.perl?billn
>um=0280
>
>This Bill has passed through the Senate and has been referred to the House
>of Representatives.
>
>Although I object to ANY cemetery or grave being moved, we all know it is
>inevitable. Better to have a process "cast in stone" as to the
>responsibilities of the party effecting such a move than to continue to
>allow them to do with the remains and stones as they wish.
>
>Like HB 1522, there are some genuinely innovative provisions of this Bill
>and I intend to do whatever is within my power to see that our General
>Assembly knows my opinion that this Bill should be passed into law.
>
>Lois
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>Next CCCPC meeting: 2 PM, Saturday, March 6 at Charlestown Library
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>THIS IS A CEMETERY -----
> "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families
>are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is
>undisguised. This is a cemetery.
> "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence,
>historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched.
> "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved
>in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life -
>not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family
>memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living.
> "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of
>yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery
>exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always."
> --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA
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