In order to facilitate a more efficient and economical system for caring for and maintaining and improving cemeteries owned and operated by municipalities, corporations and associations within the state of Tennessee, it is provided that after March 21, 1955, all vacant cemetery lots and grave spaces owned by any person dying intestate without issue and leaving no known relatives entitled by the law of descent to the cemetery lots and grave spaces shall escheat to the municipalities, corporations, associations or other owners of a cemetery where vacant lots and grave spaces exist, owned by any person dying testate without devising the vacant cemetery lots or grave spaces, and leaving no lawful heirs, as the case may be, entitled by law to take the vacant cemetery lots or grave spaces, or where the devisees or heirs are incapable of taking the vacant cemetery lots or grave spaces and where there are no lawful heirs, as the case may be.
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