Ohio Code § 759.04
Ohio Code § 759.04. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 759.04.
The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may sell any portion of the cemetery
grounds owned by it and not used for the burial of the dead, which grounds are unsuitable
for burial purposes, and may purchase with the proceeds thereof other suitable lands
lying contiguous thereto. No such sale shall be made until the legislative authority has contracted for an
equal or greater quantity of land suitable for burial purposes. For the purpose of paying any indebtedness arising out of the purchase or improvement
of such cemetery, the director of public service in cities, or the board of cemetery
trustees in villages, with the consent of the legislative authority, may sell or mortgage
such portion of the real estate belonging to the cemetery as has not been used for
burial purposes, or as may not, in its opinion, be needed for such purposes, and the
money arising from the sale or mortgage thereof shall be applied by it to the payment
of the indebtedness, and for no other purpose. Upon such sale, if there is a surplus after the payment of the indebtedness, such
surplus money shall be used by the director or the board in the improvement of the
cemetery grounds, and for no other purpose.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 759.04
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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