40:60-25.35. Investigation Upon receiving such request from such corporation or such board of health, the board or body having charge or control of the finances of such municipality shall investigate whether or not the said burying ground or cemetery is so located that it is inconvenient to care for the same properly, and whether or not it is for the best interest of the people of the municipality where the same is located that the bodies interred therein should be removed and reinterred in a more suitable place, and such old burying ground or cemetery converted into a park or devoted to other public uses or purposes or to school purposes by such municipality or the board of education thereof, as the case may be. L.1948, c. 80, p. 467, s. 3, eff. May 21, 1948.
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