Missouri Code — 214
Browse 66 sections in division 214 of the Missouri code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 214.010. Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries — authority to regulate — penalties.
- § 214.020. City may establish perpetual care cemetery fund — receive gifts — limitation on use of income from fund.
- § 214.030. Cemetery lots, conveyed by deed.
- § 214.035. Conveyance of cemetery property to political subdivision, when — notice of transfer.
- § 214.040. Plots and records of cemeteries to be maintained, where — requirements.
- § 214.041. Construction of roads prohibited in cemetery — exceptions.
- § 214.050. Power to vacate streets vested in county commissions.
- § 214.060. Petition to be presented to county commission — remonstrance may be filed.
- § 214.070. Terms defined.
- § 214.080. Proceedings to enlarge.
- § 214.090. Family burying grounds, how secured.
- § 214.120. Costs, who liable for.
- § 214.130. County commission and incorporated cemetery company to receive grants and bequests in trust.
- § 214.131. Tombstones, fences, destroying or mutilating in abandoned family or private cemetery, penalty — abandoned or private burying ground, defined.
- § 214.132. Visiting abandoned family or private burying ground surrounded by private property, right of access, when, enforcement by sheriff — court's power to disinter.
- § 214.140. Property placed in trust for benefit of cemeteries.
- § 214.150. County commissions shall become trustees and custodians.
- § 214.160. Investment or lending of trust funds — investment manager, duties — definitions.
- § 214.170. May designate responsible organization or individual to administer the income.
- § 214.180. Shall keep record of receipts and disbursements.
- § 214.190. Cemetery not subject to execution, dower or partition — exception.
- § 214.200. Title, how obtained to lands used for burial purposes.
- § 214.205. Violation of nuisance ordinance — abandonment — action authorized — costs — eminent domain.
- § 214.209. Abandonment of burial site, rights revert to cemetery.
- § 214.210. Certain cities may accept or acquire cemetery lands.
- § 214.220. Lands or shares subject to all vested rights.
- § 214.230. City may acquire money or funds, how.
- § 214.240. City may provide and enforce rules and regulations.
- § 214.250. Proceedings to establish cemetery in first class counties — petition by taxpayers.
- § 214.260. Penalty for violation.
- § 414.152. Violations, penalties — injunction — hearings, procedure.
- § 214.275. License, cemeteries — division's powers and duties — limitations.
- § 214.276. Refusal to issue license, grounds — complaint, procedure.
- § 214.277. Injunctions, restraining orders, other court remedies available — venue.
- § 214.280. Election to operate as endowed care cemetery filing with division of registration, form — fee — deposit of fee — division's powers and duties — rules authorized.
- § 214.282. Voidability of contracts, exceptions.
- § 214.283. Notification of burial lands — registry of cemeteries to be kept by division — fee may be charged for copies — surveyor locating unregistered cemetery to file with division, form.
- § 214.300. Nonendowed cemetery may qualify as endowed, when — minimum care and maintenance fund to be established.
- § 214.310. Endowed care and maintenance fund, minimum amount — bond — posting of sign, when, information required.
- § 214.320. Deposits in fund required, amount — annual report, form furnished by division — audits may be conducted, when — exemption from chapter 436 requirements, when.
- § 214.325. Required deposits — deficiency — effect — penalty.
- § 214.330. Endowed care fund held in trust or segregated account — requirements — duties of trustee or independent investment advisor — operator's duties — endowed care fund agreement.
- § 214.335. Contributions to endowed care fund for memorial or monument — deficiency, effect of.
- § 214.340. Report required — content — oath — filing required.
- § 214.345. Sale of cemetery plot — written statement to be given to purchaser — copy of annual report to be available to public.
- § 214.360. Private use of trust funds prohibited.
- § 214.363. Bankruptcy, assignment for benefit of creditors, endowed care fund exempt.
- § 214.365. Cemetery failing to provide maintenance — abandonment or ceasing to operate, division's duties.
- § 214.367. Sale of assets, notice required — prospective purchaser of endowed care cemetery, right to recent audit — right to continue operation, notification by division.
- § 214.370. Nonendowed cemetery to post signs and give notice of its character.
- § 214.380. Nonendowed section of endowed care cemetery — signs and notice.
- § 214.385. Moving of grave marker, replacement — delivery of item of burial merchandise.
- § 214.387. Burial merchandise or services, deferral of delivery, when — escrow arrangement — distribution of moneys — cancellation.
- § 214.389. Suspension of distribution, when, procedure.
- § 214.390. Existing cemeteries to operate under law — local law applicable.
- § 214.392. Division of professional registration, duties and powers in regulation of cemeteries — rulemaking authority.
- § 214.400. Citation of law.
- § 214.410. Violation of law, penalty.
- § 214.450. Indian cemeteries, how established — trust fund authorized.
- § 214.455. Destruction or defacing any cemetery property, penalty.
- § 214.500. Cemeteries acquired by a city at tax sales or as nuisances may be sold.
- § 214.504. No liability for new cemetery operators, when — rights of holders of contracts for burial.
- § 214.508. Previous cemetery owner liable, when.
- § 214.512. New cemetery owner not liable for deficiencies, exception.
- § 214.516. Registration as an endowed care cemetery, when — compliance with endowed care cemetery law required.
- § 214.550. Scatter gardens, operation by churches maintaining religious cemeteries — maintenance of garden and records, duty of operator.