§ 26-103. Definition; small burial ground becoming cemetery.

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The term "cemetery" as used in this article shall be held to be a plot or parcel of ground in or on which more than ten human bodies are buried; and where ten or less persons are buried in a particular plot or parcel of ground, the same shall not be held or deemed to be an existing cemetery. If it is desired to extend or enlarge any plot or parcel of ground when ten or less persons are buried or to increase the number of dead persons buried in such plot or parcel of ground to more than ten, then, in either such event, the consent and approval of the board of county commissioners, or the board and the legislative body of any incorporated city or town, as the case may be, shall be first had and obtained, as upon application for the opening of a new cemetery.

(Code 1992, § 25-96; Priv. Acts 1925, ch. 405, § 2)

State law reference

Cemetery defined, T.C.A. § 46-1-102.

Cross reference

Definitions and rules of construction, § 1-2.

                    
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