See also FUNERALS; MORTUARY SCIENCE
Abandoned cemeteries
Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.21 to 306.241, 307.11
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243
Maintenance and improvements, appropriations for, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243, 306.246
Towns responsible for, Minn. Statutes 2010 365.28
Alleys
Lots, access, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.18
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.02, 307.07
Appropriations for
Abandoned cemeteries, improvement and maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243, 306.246
Cities and towns, Minn. Statutes 2010 471.84
Artifacts, removal, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Audits and examinations, cemetery associations, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.93
Boards of health, duties delegated to, Minn. Statutes 2010 145A.07
Bottineau gravesite, historic place, Minn. Statutes 2010 138.664
Buildings
Land acquired for, permanent care and improvement funds, use, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.79
Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.12, 307.082
Removal, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Burial grounds
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Holding in trust, religious societies, Minn. Statutes 2010 315.14
Indian burial grounds, see Burial grounds under INDIANS
Transfer of property to cemetery association, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.02
Burial plots, see Lots under this topic
Burial register, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.03, 306.04
Burial sites
Authentication by state archaeologist, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Definitions, Minn. Statutes 2010 149A.02
Destruction, mutilation, injury, disturbance, or removal of items, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08, 307.082
Disclosure, Minn. Statutes 2010 149A.71, 149A.72, 149A.73
Opening, excavation, exclusion, Minn. Statutes 2010 216D.01
Policy of state, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
State archaeologist data, classification, liability for improper use, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Burial space
Columbaria, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.37, 306.762, 306.78
Mausoleums, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15, 306.37, 306.762, 306.78
Burials, generally, see BURIAL
Burials outside of identified cemeteries
County boards, duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Indian burials, see Burial grounds under INDIANS
Moving, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243
Cambridge State Hospital Garden of Remembrance, Minn. Statutes 2010 246.325
Cemeteries at state-operated facilities
Abandonment, orders, Minn. Statutes 2010 246.35
Establishment, Minn. Statutes 2010 246.33
Human Services Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 246.33 to 246.35
Reburials in, procedures, Minn. Statutes 2010 246.34
Record keeping, Minn. Statutes 2010 246.33, 246.34
Cemeteries for the poor, permanent care and improvement fund, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.851
Cemetery associations, see CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Certified copies, lots, documents affecting title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Chapels, land acquired for
Use of permanent care and improvement funds, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.79
City cemeteries, see Municipal cemeteries under this topic
Columbaria, see BURIAL VAULTS
Consolidations, private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.06, 307.07
Correctional facilities, Minn. Statutes 2010 241.16 to 241.18
County cemeteries, see COUNTY CEMETERIES
Definitions
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.87
Mortuary science regulations, Minn. Statutes 2010 149A.02
Descriptions of property, lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16, 306.18
Entombment space
Columbaria, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.37, 306.762, 306.78
Mausoleums, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15, 306.37, 306.762, 306.78
Evidence
Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.23
Lots, documents affecting title, certified copies, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Fees
Annual maintenance fees, nonpayment, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16
Lot sales, service charges, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Winter burials, additional charges, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.99
Fences (partition)
Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.12, 307.082
Removal, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Fort Ridgely Cemetery, state monuments, Minn. Statutes 2010 138.585
Fraternal benefit societies, cemeteries operated by, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.88
Funds and accounts, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Grave goods, removal, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Grave markers
Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.12
Removal from cemeteries or unmarked human burial grounds, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08, 307.082
State-operated services, Minn. Statutes 2010 246.33
Graves, see Burial sites under this topic
Greenhouses, land acquired for
Use of permanent care and improvement funds, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.79
Historic places, Zion Lutheran Church and cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2010 138.664
Human skeletal remains, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08, 307.082
Improvements to property
Permanent care and improvement fund money, use, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.41 to 306.44, 306.79
Sale proceeds from lots or personal property, use, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.10
Indian burial grounds, see Burial grounds under INDIANS
Injunctions, violations, generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.082
Inurnment space
Columbaria, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.37, 306.762, 306.78
Mausoleums, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15, 306.37, 306.762, 306.78
Judgments, certified copies, abandoned lots, quieting title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.24
Land acquired for
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.05
Purpose, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.02
Sale and conveyance, see Real property under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Title to, acquisition, Minn. Statutes 2010 541.01
Lawsuits, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Location, rulemaking, Minn. Statutes 2010 144.12
Lot owners
Certificates and certification, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.111
Consent
Burial grounds, right of entry, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01, 307.09, 307.12
Subdivision or rearrangement, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.66, 307.01
Devises and bequests, disposal of lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Disposal of lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Election or appointment by, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.69, 306.73
Inspections, permanent care and improvement fund, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.80
Lawsuits, abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.22
Meeting notices, associates, vacancies, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.111
Meetings, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.111, 306.59, 306.68, 307.06
Nonowners or nonrelatives, burial, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Notice given, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.59, 306.68, 307.06
Notice received, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.242, 306.55, 307.06
Powers and duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.69, 306.73
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01, 307.06, 307.09
Proxies (persons), Minn. Statutes 2010 306.111, 306.60
Purchasers, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.761, 306.762, 307.12
Reports about, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.761
Representation, board of trustees, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.73
Resolutions by, private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.06
Rights and privileges, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.023, 306.025, 306.027, 306.66
Service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16, 306.21, 306.242
Signatures, lots, sales agreements, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Spouses, signatures, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Trustees chosen from, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.11, 306.73
Votes and voting, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.11, 306.111, 306.60, 306.61, 307.06
Wills, disposal of lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Lots
Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.21 to 306.241, 307.11
Access, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.18, 306.22
Acquisition, purpose, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.02
Attachment, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 550.37
Claims of interest, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.21, 306.22
Deed taxes, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2010 287.22
Deeds to, safe deposit companies, duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 55.10
Description of property, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16, 306.18
Disposal by owners, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Garnishment, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 550.37
Grantees, claims of interest, service of process on, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.21
Interment rights, deeded in lieu of title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Maintenance, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.21, 306.23, 306.761
Maintenance fees, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16, 306.20
Markers, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.66, 307.01
Medical assistance, asset limitations and exclusions, Minn. Statutes 2010 256B.056
Municipal cemeteries, maintenance fees, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16 to 306.20
Perpetual care contracts, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.19, 306.20
Perpetual care trust funds, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.025
Personal property taxes, Minn. Statutes 2010 277.20, 277.21
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.04, 307.05, 307.07
Procuring, purpose, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.02
Purchasers, see same under this topic
Records, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Redemption, reinvested lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.20
Revestment of title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.241, 306.242
Sale and conveyance
Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.241
Agreements, copies, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Cemetery association officers, duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.09
First class cities, conveyances to, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.86
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.02
Holding corporations, conveyances to, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.86
Permanent care and improvement funds proceeds, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.241, 306.37, 306.78
Proceeds, uses, exception, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.10, 306.88
Real estate licensure, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 82.56
Reorganized cemetery associations, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.62
Repurchase by cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Requirements, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.09, 306.15
Service charges, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Subdivided land sales law, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 83.26
Trustees, duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.09
Sales (executions), exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 550.37
Surveys, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.05
Taxes and assessments, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.14, 306.88
Title
Interment rights deeded in lieu of, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Quieting title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.22 to 306.24
Records, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Reinvestment with cemetery or cemetery association, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16 to 306.20, 306.241
Reversion for unpaid assessments, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.55
Unused lots, statements of owners' interest, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.242
Value, MFIP applicants or participants, Minn. Statutes 2010 256J.20
Maintenance and operation
Appropriations for, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243, 306.246, 471.24
Cemeteries transferred to local governments, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.025
Lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.21, 306.23, 306.761
Municipal cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.41 to 306.44
Permanent care and improvement fund, use, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.38, 306.41 to 306.44, 306.79
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.41 to 306.44
Sale proceeds from lots or personal property, use, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.10
Maps, land acquired for cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.05, 306.09
Mausoleums, see MAUSOLEUMS
Mergers, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.027
Monuments, see Grave markers under this topic
Municipal cemeteries
Cemeteries established before 1870, conveyance, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.06
Cemeteries transferred to local governments, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.025
Cemetery associations, see Municipal cemeteries, associations maintaining under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
City council powers, Minn. Statutes 2010 412.221
Lots, maintenance fees, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.16 to 306.20
Maintenance and improvements, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.41 to 306.44, 471.24
Mergers, generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.027
Permanent care and improvement funds, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Plats, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.65 to 306.67
Subdivision or rearrangement, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.66
Neglected cemeteries, generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243, 306.246
Notice requirements, see Notice given under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Operators, interment errors, correction, notice, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.155
Organization (formation), cemeteries established after 1906, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.01
Ornaments
Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.12, 307.082
Removal, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Parties to suits, abandoned lots, quieting title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.22
Payments by, interment errors, correction, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.155
Payments to, lot sales, service charges, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Personal property taxes, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 272.02
Persons in charge, superintendents, Minn. Statutes 2010 609.502
Plats
Municipal cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.65 to 306.67
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01, 307.02, 307.10
Plots, see Lots under this topic
Policy of state, burial sites, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Prepaid burial contracts, see PREPAID BURIAL CONTRACTS
Private cemeteries
Abandoned cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.243, 306.246
Abandoned lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.11
Acquisition by religious corporations, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.03
Alleys, designation, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.02, 307.07
Burial grounds held in trust, Minn. Statutes 2010 315.14
Cemeteries established after 1906, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.01
Cemetery associations, see Private cemetery associations under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Consolidations, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.06, 306.07
Creditors remedies, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.09
Establishment, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01
Execution sales, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.09
Fraternal benefit societies, cemeteries operated by, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.88
Interment errors, correction, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.115
Lot owners, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01, 307.06, 307.09, 307.12
Lots, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.04, 307.07
Maintenance and improvements, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.41 to 306.44
Management, changes, Minn. Statutes 2010 315.31
Members, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.06
Mergers, generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.027
Names, changes, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.10
Nonprofit corporations law, exemption, Minn. Statutes 2010 317A.051
Permanent care and improvement funds, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Plats, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01, 307.02, 307.10
Records and record keeping, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.03, 306.17, 306.29
Relocation, owners, consent, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.12
Sales and use taxes, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2010 297A.70
Special assessments, exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.09
Streets and roads through, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.02, 307.07, 307.09
Subdivision or rearrangement, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01
Surveyors, duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01
Topographic surveys, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01
Trustees, powers, Minn. Statutes 2010 315.04, 315.05
Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.12, 307.082
Property taxes, exemptions
Constitutional provisions, Minn. Const. art 10 s 1
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 272.02, 306.14
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 272.02, 306.88, 307.09
Purchasers
Notice received, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.761
Prepaid burial contracts, see PREPAID BURIAL CONTRACTS
Records, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.762
Purchases by, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.15
Ramsey County, soldiers' rest, Minn. Statutes 2010 383A.18
Records and record keeping
Burial register, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.03
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.17
Lots, documents affecting title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.29
Religious corporations, cemeteries operated by, see Private cemeteries under this topic
Relocation
Private cemeteries, consent, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.12
Trustees, consent, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.141
Removal of bodies, Minn. Statutes 2010 609.502
Right of entry, burial grounds, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Sales, Minn. Statutes 2010 149A.72
Service of process by, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Signs, burial grounds, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Special assessments
Exemptions, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.14, 306.88, 307.09
Failure to pay, reversion of title, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.55
Lots, maintenance and upkeep, Minn. Statutes 2010 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 2010 306.14, 307.02, 307.07, 307.09
Land acquired for, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.79
Lots, access, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.18
Structures, see Buildings under this topic
Subdivision or rearrangement
Markers or plats, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.66
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01
Superintendents
Interference with dead bodies, failure to report, Minn. Statutes 2010 609.502
Surveys
Land acquired for cemetery, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.05
Private cemeteries, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.01
Third parties, rights and privileges, mergers, effect, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.027
Title to, acquisition, Minn. Statutes 2010 541.01
Town cemeteries, see TOWN CEMETERIES
Transfers of property, see under CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
Trees and shrubs
Property damage, lawsuits, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.12, 307.082
Removal, Minn. Statutes 2010 307.08
Trespass, Minn. Statutes 2010 609.605
Veterans cemeteries
Generally, Minn. Statutes 2010 197.236
Grave markers, Veterans Affairs Department, Minn. Statutes 2010 197.23
Honor guards, provisions for, Minn. Statutes 2010 197.231
Mississippi headwaters area, Minn. Statutes 2010 103F.369
Whitewater State Wildlife Management Area
Natural Resources Department, duties, Minn. Statutes 2010 84.034
Winter burials, costs, Minn. Statutes 2010 306.99