Vermont Code § 18 V.S.A. § 5321

Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers
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§ 5321. Improvement of private burial grounds; duties of officers
When the use and care of a private burial ground has been abandoned and such ground
becomes unsightly from any cause, or when headstones or monuments have been displaced,
the selectboard or board of cemetery commissioners having charge of the public cemeteries
in the town where such burial ground is located, on written request of three legally
qualified voters of such town, shall immediately cause a notice to be published once
a week on the same day of the week for three successive weeks in some newspaper circulating
in the town, calling upon any person interested in such burial ground to cause the
same to be put in proper condition within three months after the date of such notice.
At the expiration of such time, if such demand is not complied with, the selectboard
or board shall proceed then and thereafter as if such ground were a public burial
place.

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