Sharon: I see black and white. No beating around the bush. I believe the answers to your questions are no and no. But, who am I to say. That would be too simple. Jon >From: mills <mills@reliable-net.net> >Reply-To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >To: INPCRP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [INPCRP] building near a cemetery and taxes (un)paid thereon >Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:38:18 -0500 > >I understand that the law we are discussing about disturbing the ground >within 100 feet of a cemetery came into effect July 1, 2000. Prior to that >time, was there any prohibition that prevented a person from building >within, say, 20 feet of a cemetery? > >I'm interested in knowing if a county could legally sell a cemetery on >which no taxes had been paid since the former owners had bequeathed the >land to a cemetery association. The cemetery association had become >inactive, in that no meetings have been held in many years; however funds >have been paid continually from the cemetery association account for >mowing. Can a county government sell for non-payment of taxes, non-taxed >land? > >Sharon Mills > > >==== 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 > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp