CEMETERIES

See also FUNERALS; MORTUARY SCIENCE

Abandoned cemeteries

Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.21 to 306.241, 307.11

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243

Maintenance and improvements, appropriations for, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243, 306.246

Towns responsible for, Minn. Statutes 2024 365.28

Alleys

Lots, access, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.18

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.02, 307.07

Appropriations for

Abandoned cemeteries, improvement and maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243, 306.246

Cities and towns, Minn. Statutes 2024 471.84

Artifacts, removal, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Audits and examinations, cemetery associations, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.93

Bottineau gravesite, historic place, Minn. Statutes 2024 138.664

Buildings

Land acquired for, permanent care and improvement funds, use, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.79

Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.12, 307.082

Removal, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Burial expenses, Minn. Rules 9515.2500

Burial grounds

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Holding in trust, religious societies, Minn. Statutes 2024 315.14

Indian burial grounds, see Burial grounds under INDIANS

Transfer of property to cemetery association, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.02

Burial plots, see Lots under this topic

Burial register, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.03, 306.04

Burial sites

Assessment by state archaeologist, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2024 149A.02

Destruction, mutilation, injury, disturbance, or removal of items, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08, 307.082

Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2024 149A.71, 149A.72, 149A.73

Opening, excavation, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2024 216D.01

Policy of state, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

State archaeologist data, classification, liability for improper use, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Burial space

Columbaria, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.37, 306.762, 306.78

Mausoleums, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15, 306.37, 306.762, 306.78

Burials, generally, see BURIAL

Burials outside of identified cemeteries

County boards, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Indian burials, see Burial grounds under INDIANS

Moving, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243

Cambridge State Hospital Garden of Remembrance, Minn. Statutes 2024 246.325

Cemeteries at state-operated facilities

Abandonment, orders, Minn. Statutes 2024 246.35

Direct Care and Treatment, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 246.33 to 246.35

Establishment, Minn. Statutes 2024 246.33

Reburials in, procedures, Minn. Statutes 2024 246.34

Record keeping, Minn. Statutes 2024 246.33, 246.34

Cemeteries for the poor, permanent care and improvement fund, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.851

Cemetery associations, see CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Certified copies, lots, documents affecting title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Chapels, land acquired for, use of permanent care and improvement funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.79

City cemeteries, see Municipal cemeteries under this topic

Columbaria, see BURIAL VAULTS

Community health boards, duties delegated to, Minn. Statutes 2024 145A.07

Consolidations, private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.06, 307.07

Correctional facilities, Minn. Statutes 2024 241.16 to 241.18

County cemeteries, see COUNTY CEMETERIES

Definitions

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.87

Mortuary science regulations, Minn. Statutes 2024 149A.02

Descriptions of property, lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16, 306.18

Entombment space

Columbaria, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.37, 306.762, 306.78

Mausoleums, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15, 306.37, 306.762, 306.78

Evidence

Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.23

Lots, documents affecting title, certified copies, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Fees

Annual maintenance fees, nonpayment, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16

Lot sales, service charges, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Winter burials, additional charges, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.99

Fences (partition)

Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.12, 307.082

Removal, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Fort Ridgely Cemetery, state monuments, Minn. Statutes 2024 138.585

Fraternal benefit societies, cemeteries operated by, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.88

Funds and accounts, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Grave goods, removal, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Grave markers

Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.12

Removal from cemeteries or unmarked human burial grounds, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08, 307.082

State-operated services, Minn. Statutes 2024 246.33

Veterans Affairs Department, veterans cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 197.23

Graves, see Burial sites under this topic

Greenhouses, land acquired for, use of permanent care and improvement funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.79

Human skeletal remains, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08, 307.082

Improvements to property

Permanent care and improvement fund money, use, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.41 to 306.44, 306.79

Sale proceeds from lots or personal property, use, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.10

Indian burial grounds, see Burial grounds under INDIANS

Injunctions, violations, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.082

Inurnment space

Columbaria, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.37, 306.762, 306.78

Mausoleums, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15, 306.37, 306.762, 306.78

Judgments, certified copies, abandoned lots, quieting title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.24

Land acquired for

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.05

Purpose, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.02

Sale and conveyance, see Real property under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Title to, acquisition, Minn. Statutes 2024 541.01

Lawsuits, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Location, rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2024 144.12

Lot owners

Certificates and certification, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.111

Consent

Burial grounds, right of entry, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01, 307.09, 307.12

Subdivision or rearrangement, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.66, 307.01

Devises and bequests, disposal of lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Disposal of lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Election or appointment by, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.69, 306.73

Inspections, permanent care and improvement fund, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.80

Lawsuits, abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.22

Meetings, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.111, 306.59, 306.68, 307.06

Nonowners or nonrelatives, burial, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Notice given, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.59, 306.68, 307.06

Notice received, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.242, 306.55, 307.06

Powers and duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.69, 306.73

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01, 307.06, 307.09

Proxies (persons), Minn. Statutes 2024 306.111, 306.60

Purchasers, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.761, 306.762, 307.12

Reports about, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.761

Representation, board of trustees, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.73

Resolutions by, private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.06

Rights and privileges, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.023, 306.025, 306.027, 306.66

Service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16, 306.21, 306.242

Signatures, lots, sales agreements, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Spouses, signatures, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Trustees chosen from, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.11, 306.73

Votes and voting, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.11, 306.111, 306.60, 306.61, 307.06

Wills, disposal of lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Lots

Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.21 to 306.241, 307.11

Access, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.18, 306.22

Acquisition, purpose, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.02

Attachment, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 550.37

Claims of interest, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.21, 306.22

Deed taxes, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 287.22

Deeds to, safe deposit companies, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 55.10

Description of property, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16, 306.18

Disposal by owners, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Garnishment, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 550.37

Grantees, claims of interest, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.21

Interment rights, deeded in lieu of title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.21, 306.23, 306.761

Maintenance fees, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16, 306.20

Markers, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.66, 307.01

Medical assistance, asset limitations and exclusions, Minn. Statutes 2024 256B.056

Municipal cemeteries, maintenance fees, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16 to 306.20

Perpetual care contracts, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.19, 306.20

Perpetual care trust funds, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.025

Personal property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2024 277.20, 277.21

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.04, 307.05, 307.07

Procuring, purpose, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.02

Purchasers, see same under this topic

Records, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Redemption, reinvested lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.20

Revestment of title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.241, 306.242

Sale and conveyance

Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.241

Agreements, copies, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Cemetery association officers, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.09

First class cities, conveyances to, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.86

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.02

Holding corporations, conveyances to, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.86

Permanent care and improvement funds proceeds, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.241, 306.37, 306.78

Proceeds, uses, exception, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.10, 306.88

Real estate licensure, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 82.56

Reorganized cemetery associations, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.62

Repurchase by cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Requirements, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.09, 306.15

Service charges, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Subdivided land sales law, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 83.26

Trustees, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.09

Sales (executions), exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 550.37

Surveys, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.05

Taxes and assessments, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.14, 306.88

Title

Interment rights deeded in lieu of, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Quieting title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.22 to 306.24

Records, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Reinvestment with cemetery or cemetery association, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16 to 306.20, 306.241

Reversion for unpaid assessments, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.55

Unused lots, statements of owners' interest, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.242

Maintenance and operation

Appropriations for, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243, 306.246, 471.24

Cemeteries transferred to local governments, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.025

Lawn care and related services, Minn. Statutes 2024 297A.67

Lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.21, 306.23, 306.761

Municipal cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.41 to 306.44

Permanent care and improvement fund, use, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.38, 306.41 to 306.44, 306.79

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.41 to 306.44

Sale proceeds from lots or personal property, use, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.10

Maps, land acquired for cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.05, 306.09

Mausoleums, see MAUSOLEUMS

Mergers, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.027

Monuments, see Grave markers under this topic

Municipal cemeteries

Cemeteries established before 1870, conveyance, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.06

Cemeteries transferred to local governments, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.025

Cemetery associations, see Municipal cemeteries, associations maintaining under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

City council powers, Minn. Statutes 2024 412.221

Lots, maintenance fees, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.16 to 306.20

Maintenance and improvements, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.41 to 306.44, 471.24

Mergers, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.027

Permanent care and improvement funds, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Plats, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.65 to 306.67

Subdivision or rearrangement, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.66

Neglected cemeteries, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243, 306.246

Operators, interment errors, correction, notice, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.155

Organization (formation), cemeteries established after 1906, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.01

Ornaments

Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.12, 307.082

Removal, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Parties to suits, abandoned lots, quieting title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.22

Payments by, interment errors, correction, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.155

Payments to, lot sales, service charges, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Personal property taxes, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 272.02

Persons in charge, superintendents, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.502

Plats

Municipal cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.65 to 306.67

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01, 307.02, 307.10

Plots, see Lots under this topic

Policy of state, burial sites, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Prepaid burial contracts, see PREPAID BURIAL CONTRACTS

Private cemeteries

Abandoned cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.243, 306.246

Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.11

Acquisition by religious corporations, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.03

Alleys, designation, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.02, 307.07

Burial grounds held in trust, Minn. Statutes 2024 315.14

Cemeteries established after 1906, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.01

Cemetery associations, see Private cemetery associations under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Consolidations, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.06, 306.07

Creditors remedies, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.09

Establishment, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01

Execution sales, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.09

Fraternal benefit societies, cemeteries operated by, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.88

Interment errors, correction, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.115

Lot owners, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01, 307.06, 307.09, 307.12

Lots, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.04, 307.07

Maintenance and improvements, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.41 to 306.44

Management, changes, Minn. Statutes 2024 315.31

Members, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.06

Mergers, generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.027

Names, changes, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.10

Nonprofit corporations law, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2024 317A.051

Permanent care and improvement funds, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Plats, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01, 307.02, 307.10

Records and record keeping, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.03, 306.17, 306.29

Relocation, owners, consent, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.12

Sales and use taxes, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 297A.70

Special assessments, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.09

Streets and roads through, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.02, 307.07, 307.09

Subdivision or rearrangement, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01

Surveyors, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01

Topographic surveys, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01

Trustees, powers, Minn. Statutes 2024 315.04, 315.05

Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.12, 307.082

Property taxes, exemptions

Constitutional provisions, Minn. Const. art 10 s 1

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 272.02, 306.14

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 272.02, 306.88, 307.09

Purchasers

Notice received, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.761

Prepaid burial contracts, see PREPAID BURIAL CONTRACTS

Records, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.762

Purchases by, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.15

Ramsey County, soldiers' rest, Minn. Statutes 2024 383A.18

Records and record keeping

Burial register, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.03

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.17

Lots, documents affecting title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.29

Religious corporations, cemeteries operated by, see Private cemeteries under this topic

Relocation

Private cemeteries, consent, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.12

Trustees, consent, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.141

Removal of bodies, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.502

Right of entry, burial grounds, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Sales, Minn. Statutes 2024 149A.72

Sales and use taxes, exemptions, Minn. Rules 8130.6300

Service of process by, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Signs, burial grounds, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Special assessments

Exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.14, 306.88, 307.09

Failure to pay, reversion of title, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.55

Lots, maintenance and upkeep, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.55

State monuments, see STATE MONUMENTS

Statutory cities, cemeteries owned or operated by, see Municipal cemeteries under this topic

Stones, see Grave markers under this topic

Streets and roads

Laid through cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.14, 307.02, 307.07, 307.09

Land acquired for, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.79

Lots, access, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.18

Structures, see Buildings under this topic

Subdivision or rearrangement

Markers or plats, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.66

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01

Superintendents, interference with dead bodies, failure to report, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.502

Surveys

Land acquired for cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.05

Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.01

Taconite, excluded areas for mining, Minn. Rules 6130.1200

Third parties, rights and privileges, mergers, effect, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.027

Title to, acquisition, Minn. Statutes 2024 541.01

Town cemeteries, see TOWN CEMETERIES

Transfers of property, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS

Trees and shrubs

Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.12, 307.082

Removal, Minn. Statutes 2024 307.08

Trespass, Minn. Statutes 2024 609.605

Veterans cemeteries

Generally, Minn. Statutes 2024 197.236

Grave markers, Veterans Affairs Department, Minn. Statutes 2024 197.23

Honor guards, provisions for, Minn. Statutes 2024 197.231

Mississippi headwaters area, Minn. Statutes 2024 103F.369

Whitewater State Wildlife Management Area, Natural Resources Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2024 84.034

Winter burials, costs, Minn. Statutes 2024 306.99

Zion Lutheran Church and cemetery, historic place, Minn. Statutes 2024 138.664