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House advances bill to extend cemetery rights to cemetery maintenance districts
Summary
House sponsors said HB 75 would let cemetery maintenance districts use the same lot-resale and record safeguards now available to municipal cemeteries and would remove a misdemeanor sanction to avoid criminalizing volunteers; sponsor urged support before the measure was circled for later consideration.
House Bill 75, a measure to align the rights of cemetery maintenance districts with those available to municipal cemeteries, was presented to the Utah House floor on the morning calendar. Representative Eli Anderson, the sponsor, said the bill would allow cemetery maintenance districts to conduct operations "in the same manner" as municipal cemeteries and extend the statute-authorized procedures for resale of unclaimed burial lots after long periods of nonuse, while preserving safeguards for…
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