West Virginia Code § 35-5-1

Appointment of new trustees for burial grounds
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Where any conveyance, dedication or devise was made of land for burial grounds, to any
church, religious sect, society, congregation or denomination, or to any benevolent,
fraternal, patriotic, literary, temperance, or charitable society, order, lodge or association,
that has dissolved or become extinct in the county and vicinity where such burial grounds
are situated, and the trustees of same have removed or died, the circuit couert of such
county, upon the application of five or more persons having relatives buried in such burial
grounds, shall appoint five trustees, who for the time being and their surccessors shall be
invested with all the powers necessary to promote and carry out the object and purposes
named in such conveyance, dedication or devise.

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