To all those interested in the pioneer cmemteries: >Resent-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:43:19 -0800 (PST) >From: "Lois Mauk" <lawofficeinformationsystem@worldnet.att.net> >Old-To: "INPCRP" <INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:55:42 -0500 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 >Subject: [INPCRP-L] New Summary of HB 1522 >Resent-Message-ID: <"P2cwPB.A.wOD.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/626 >X-Loop: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: INPCRP-L-request@rootsweb.com >X-UIDL: cc64aea896bbf9ec431733fab54a2b3d > >The following is the newly revised official summary of House Bill 1522: > > DIGEST OF HB 1522 (Updated February 15, 1999 7:36 pm - DI 02) > > Cemetery preservation. Provides various measures to preserve > cemeteries. Requires a person who lawfully removes a grave > memorial to file with the county recorder certain information > pertaining to the grave memorial. Provides that a person may > not buy or sell certain items that have been removed from > a cemetery. Provides that a grave memorial installed after > January 1, 2000, must contain the name of the cemetery > where it is installed. Provides that a person who disturbs the > earth for agricultural purposes is not exempt from committing > cemetery mischief. Provides that cemetery mischief includes > disturbing, defacing, or damaging certain cemetery items. > Prohibits a person from recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally > damaging personal property contained in a structure or located > at a cemetery or a facility used for memorializing the dead. > Provides penalties for violations of cemetery preservation laws. > >This new summary was drafted after the original HB 1522 was substantially >revised following hearings on the topic of cemetery protection and >preservation on 2/8/99 and 2/15/99. > >The status and full text of HB 1522 is available on-line at: > >http://www.state.in.us/cgi-bin/legislative/bills/completeBillInfo.perl?billn >um=1522 > >As I've said before, this Bill is not the answer to ALL our concerns; it is, >however, a remarkable first step and I intend to do everything in my power >to persuade the members of the General Assembly to pass this Bill into law. >There are some really innovative provisions to this Bill and I hope you will >join me in supporting it. > >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 > > >