I. Texas Statutes
A. Texas Health and Safety Code
a. Chapter 711 – General Regulations of Cemeteries
-711.001: Definitions
b. Chapter 712 – Perpetual Care Cemeteries
-712.002: Exemptions from Chapter, including family cemeteries under 10 acres c. Chapter 713 – Municipal and County Regulations of Cemeteries
-713.009: Local possession & control of unkept or abandoned cemetery (not applicable to private family cemetery) d. Chapter 714 – Depth of Graves and Abandoned Cemeteries
-714.001: Depth of graves e. Chapter 715 – Certain Historic Cemeteries
-715.015: Chapter 715 does not apply to perpetual care cemeteries or family cemeteries
Last updated: August 11, 2008
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Written by Donald Ray Burger, Attorney at Law
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-711.003: Records of interment
-711.004: Removal of remains (with certain exemptions for family cemeteries)
-711.007: Nuisance: abatement & injunction
-711.008: Location restrictions on cemeteries
-711.009: Powers of sexton at certain cemeteries
-711.010: Unknown or abandoned cemeteries
-711.012: Rule making authority of Finance Commission of Texas (via Texas Department of Banking) & Texas Funeral Service Commission
-711.021: Cemetery corporations (not applicable to family cemeteries of ten acres or under)
-711.022: Nonprofit cemetery corporation by plot owners
-711.023: Rights of plot owners in cemeteries operated by nonprofit cemetery corporation
-711.024: Authority of non-profit cemetery corporations
-711.035: Effects of dedication
-711.039: Rights of interment in plot
-711.041: Access to cemetery
-711.052: Criminal penalties
-713.010: Who can care for graves at city cemeteries
-713.021: County established trust fund to maintain neglected or unkept public or private cemeteries
-713.025: Who can care for graves at such county cemeteries
-713.028: For historical preservation/public health/safety/welfare, county can use public funds/labor/equipment to maintain cemetery that has grave marker more than fifty years old (except for perpetual care cemeteries & cemeteries maintained by religious or fraternal organizations)
-714.003: Abandoned plots in cemeteries owned & operated by nonprofit organizations
-714.004: Removal of remains from abandoned cemetery in county of at least 525,000