40:60-25.40. Removal of bodies and reburial; records and maps

Upon the execution of the deed referred to in section four or upon the making of the said adjudication, it shall be lawful for the said board or body having charge or control of the finances or the board of education, as the case may be, to cause the bodies buried in said burying ground or cemetery to be disinterred and to be removed and reburied in another cemetery or in some other suitable place, and for that purpose it may enter into a contract with any cemetery company or church organization owning or controlling any cemetery or with any other person to take up and remove the said bodies and to inter the same in any other cemetery or suitable place, and to remove from such abandoned burying ground or cemeteries any tombs, headstones or markers and replace the same in the new place and to provide for the proper care of such new place. The said board or body having control of the finances or said board of education, as the case may be, shall cause records and maps to be prepared and filed in the office of the municipal clerk, on which shall be recorded, as nearly as can be ascertained, the names of all bodies disinterred and the lots or plots from which they were taken in any such old burying ground or cemetery, and the cemetery or place to which they have been taken, and the lot or plots in which they may be reinterred.

L.1948, c. 80, p. 469, s. 8. Amended by L.1953, c. 37, p. 710, s. 205, eff. March 19, 1953.