>To all those interested in the pioneer cemeteries: > >>Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:43:47 -0800 (PST) >>From: "Lois Mauk" <lawofficeinformationsystem@worldnet.att.net> >>Old-To: "INPCRP" <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> >>Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:56:08 -0500 >>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >>Subject: [INPCRP-L] New Summary of SB 280 >>Resent-Message-ID: <"8AjkH.A.NUD.hL3z2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >>To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >>Resent-From: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >>Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >>X-Mailing-List: <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/627 >>X-Loop: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >>Precedence: list >>Resent-Sender: INPCRP-L-request@rootsweb.com >>X-UIDL: fb2ae98a96a66878b80250d632fc99f3 >> >>The following is the revised draft of Senate Bill 280, the Bill establishing >>the procedure for lawfully moving a grave or cemetery: >> >> DIGEST OF SB280 (Updated February 2, 1999 5:33 pm - DI 84) >> >> Protecting old cemeteries from desecration. Requires that the >> person effecting disinterment, removal, and reinterment of a grave >> give 60 days written notice to the decedent's next of kin and >> publish the notice in a newspaper of general circulation. Requires >> the person effecting the removal of graves to file a certificate of >> removal facts with the county recorder in the county from which >> the graves were removed and the county in which reinterment is >> made. Requires that the certificate of removal facts list >> information contained on the gravestone or other markers, such >> as the birth date, death date, and family name. Requires that >> all expenses associated with the disinterment, removal, >> acquisition of the new burial site, and reinterment be paid by >> the person effecting the disinterment, removal, acquisition, >> and reinterment. Requires the person effecting the disinterment, >> removal, and reinterment to ensure that the site for reinterment >> is suitable and reasonably accessible to relatives of the >> decedent. Requires that disinterment, removal, and >> reinterment be performed under the supervision and direction >> of the county executive or the county executive's designee. >> Requires that due care be taken to furnish suitable coffins or >> boxes for reinterring human remains and to remove, protect, >> and replace [MEANING "REINSTALL"] all gravestones or >> other markers. Exempts a church, a religious institution, >> or a religious society from the act. >> >>The status and full text of this Bill is available at: >>http://www.state.in.us/cgi-bin/legislative/bills/completeBillInfo.perl?billn >>um=0280 >> >>This Bill has passed through the Senate and has been referred to the House >>of Representatives. >> >>Although I object to ANY cemetery or grave being moved, we all know it is >>inevitable. Better to have a process "cast in stone" as to the >>responsibilities of the party effecting such a move than to continue to >>allow them to do with the remains and stones as they wish. >> >>Like HB 1522, there are some genuinely innovative provisions of this Bill >>and I intend to do whatever is within my power to see that our General >>Assembly knows my opinion that this Bill should be passed into law. >> >>Lois >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Join the Indiana Pioneer Cemeteries Restoration Project: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~inpcrp >>Visit the Clark County Cemeteries page: >> http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/5881 >>Next CCCPC meeting: 2 PM, Saturday, March 6 at Charlestown Library >> >> >> >> >> >> >>==== INPCRP Mailing List ==== >>THIS IS A CEMETERY ----- >> "Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded - families >>are reunited - memories are made tangible - and love is >>undisguised. This is a cemetery. >> "Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, >>historians seek information and our heritage is thereby enriched. >> "Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved >>in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life - >>not the death - of a loved one. The cemetery is homeland for family >>memorials that are a sustaining source of comfort to the living. >> "A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of >>yesterday and sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery >>exists because every life is worth loving and remembering - always." >> --Author unknown -- Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA >> >> >> >