Vermont § 5323 - Natural burial grounds; exemptions

§ 5323. Natural burial grounds; exemptions

• (a) A natural burial ground shall not be subject to the following provisions of this chapter: (1) section 5310 of this title with regard to the method of platting so as to allow the use of any nonstandard method
  of locating human remains that enables demarcation in the town land record of the
  exact location and identity of each buried body, such as by mapping, surveying, or
  use of a global positioning system; (2) section 5362 of this title; (3) section 5364 of this title, to the extent that selectboard members or cemetery commissioners need not maintain
  or repair a fence around a public natural burial ground so long as the perimeter of
  the natural burial ground is marked in a less obtrusive manner, such as by survey
  markers; and (4) section 5371, unless the regulations governing a particular natural burial ground
  require a marker on a person’s grave, in which case the selectboard members of the
  town or the aldermen of a city where the person is buried shall cause to be erected
  on the person’s grave a marker in keeping with the regulations of that natural burial
  ground. (b)(1) A person shall not construct improvements on property used as a natural burial ground,
  except for improvements that serve as a winter storage facility or that are either
  educational or devotional in nature and maintain the character of the land. (2) A deed transferring rights in property used as a natural burial ground shall set forth
  the prohibition in subdivision (1) of this subsection. (Added 2015, No. 24, § 3.)