In a message dated 4/9/00 10:05:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, FayePoss@aol.com writes: << Just wondering if anybody knows the law regarding rights of ingress and egress to cemeteries. We'll be tramping around a few places where there are cemeteries in backyards or woods on our upcoming Walton Co. cemetery project. Most people are very cooperative about surveying cemeteries, but there is one known place where we might have a problem. Do we have any attorney or someone else in our midst that could tell us if we have any rights in this respect? >> Is the cemetery on private property, or on property, like a church, which could be considered open to the public? Those cemeteries on private property should be treated as if they were private homes. If the owner does not want those cemeteries looked at, I doubt that anything short of a court order would force the owner to open their property to the project. I also doubt that a court would grant such an order. For church cemeteries, talking to someone in the church office should be enough. There the property is private, but generally the public is welcome.