Title 8 — Title 8 — Cemeteries

eff. July 1, 2010.

8 O.S. § 314 Repealed by Laws 2010, c. 58, § 25, eff. July 1, 2010

eff. July 1, 2010.

eff. July 1, 2010.

origin prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person, group of persons, firm, corporation, organization, association or any other entity of any type to deny, refuse or prohibit the interment, entombment or burial of the remains of any deceased person in any cemetery, whether ow…

Provisions in any contract, agreement, deed or charter and any bylaw, rule, restriction, covenant or regulation adopted or put in force either subsequent or prior to the effective date of this act authorizing, permitting or requiring the denial, refusal or prohibition of the priv…

Surveys and Plat. Such corporation shall cause its land, or such portion thereof as may from time to time become necessary for that purpose, to be surveyed into lots, plots, avenues and walks and platted, upon which plat every lot shall be regularly numbered and said plat shall b…

Such corporation has power to inclose, improve and embellish its grounds, avenues and walks, and to erect buildings or vaults for its use, and to prescribe in its bylaws, rules for the sale, inclosure and ornamentation of lots and for erecting monuments or gravestones thereon; an…

Whenever an interment is made in any lot as defined in Section 1 of this act, while any person is buried on that lot, that individual lot becomes forever inalienable, and descends in regular line of succession to the heirs at law of the owner, but any one or more of such heirs ma…

All the property of every such benevolent corporation, and the lots sold by it to individual proprietors, shall be exempt from taxation, assessment, lien, attachment, and from levy and sale upon execution; and all such real property shall be exempt from appropriation for streets,…

The proceeds arising from the sale of lots, after deducting all expenses of purchasing, inclosing, laying out and improving the ground, and of erecting buildings, shall be exclusively applied, appropriated and used in protecting, preserving, improving and embellishing the cemeter…

8 O.S. § 81 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 82 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 83 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 84 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 85 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 86 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 87 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

state institutions. A. The superintendents or wardens of state correctional facilities, of state hospitals and of state institutions are hereby authorized and directed to remove the bodies of the deceased inmates or patients from such facilities and institutions, that are not cla…

It is hereby required that after the body has been received by the State Anatomical Board that it shall be required that said Anatomical Board shall hold and preserve the body for a period of not less than thirty (30) days from the date of death. Laws 1957, p. 19, Section 2.

charitable institutions. Benevolent, religious and charitable institutions which own, maintain and operate cemeteries under the laws of this state shall be permitted to retain ten percent (10%) of the gross proceeds of all lots sold by such an institution for the purpose of inter…

8 O.S. § 90 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 91 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015

8 O.S. § 94 Repealed by Laws 2015, c. 284, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 2015