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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 114, § 5C Cemetery corporations; fiduciary duty owed to contributors to trust fund
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Section 5C. The corporation and its officers shall owe a fiduciary duty to a contributor to the trust fund, his heirs and legal representatives to hold and expend the funds strictly consistent with the purposes of section 5. A contributor to the trust fund, his heirs and legal re…
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 114, § 6 Cemetery corporations; cremation
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Section 6. Such corporation may cremate bodies of the dead, and may provide necessary buildings and appliances therefor and for the disposition of the ashes of the dead on any land within its cemetery which the department of environmental protection determines is suitable therefo…
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 114, § 7 Formation and organization of crematory corporations
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Section 7. Five or more persons may form a corporation, not for profit, for the purpose of providing the necessary appliances for the disposal by cremation of the bodies of the dead. Such a corporation shall be formed in the manner prescribed in and subject to section nine of cha…
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 114, § 8 Crematory corporations; acquisition and holding of land in fee
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Section 8. Such corporation may acquire and hold in fee, to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars, land necessary and appropriate for its purposes and situated in such place as the department of public health determines to be suitable, subject to the provisions of sectio…