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Subject: [INPCRP-L] New Summary of HB 1522
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The following is the newly revised official summary of House Bill 1522:
DIGEST OF HB 1522 (Updated February 15, 1999 7:36 pm - DI 02)
Cemetery preservation. Provides various measures to preserve
cemeteries. Requires a person who lawfully removes a grave
memorial to file with the county recorder certain information
pertaining to the grave memorial. Provides that a person may
not buy or sell certain items that have been removed from
a cemetery. Provides that a grave memorial installed after
January 1, 2000, must contain the name of the cemetery
where it is installed. Provides that a person who disturbs the
earth for agricultural purposes is not exempt from committing
cemetery mischief. Provides that cemetery mischief includes
disturbing, defacing, or damaging certain cemetery items.
Prohibits a person from recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally
damaging personal property contained in a structure or located
at a cemetery or a facility used for memorializing the dead.
Provides penalties for violations of cemetery preservation laws.
This new summary was drafted after the original HB 1522 was substantially
revised following hearings on the topic of cemetery protection and
preservation on 2/8/99 and 2/15/99.
The status and full text of HB 1522 is available on-line at:
http://www.state.in.us/cgi-bin/legislative/bills/completeBillInfo.perl?billn
um=1522
As I've said before, this Bill is not the answer to ALL our concerns; it is,
however, a remarkable first step and I intend to do everything in my power
to persuade the members of the General Assembly to pass this Bill into law.
There are some really innovative provisions to this Bill and I hope you will
join me in supporting it.
Lois
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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