Wisconsin § 45.62 - Burial places compiled.
Full text of Wisconsin Wisconsin Statutes § 45.62 — Burial places compiled., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 45.62. Burial places compiled.
45.62(1) (1) The department may compile a record of veteran’s burial places located within the state that may, so far as practicable, indicate all of the following information: 45.62(1)(a) (a) The deceased veteran’s name. 45.62(1)(b) (b) The service in which the deceased veteran was engaged. 45.62(1)(c) (c) The appropriate designation of the deceased veteran’s armed forces unit. 45.62(1)(d) (d) The deceased veteran’s rank and period of service. 45.62(1)(e) (e) The name and location of the cemetery or other place in which the deceased veteran’s body is interred. 45.62(1)(f) (f) The location of the deceased veteran’s grave in the cemetery or other place of interment. 45.62(1)(g) (g) A description of the headstone or other marker, if any, at the deceased veteran’s grave. 45.62(2) (2) The department may prepare blank forms for the transmission to the department of the information required for the record under sub. (1) . The department may distribute the forms to county veterans service officers. A county veterans service officer within whose county any cemetery or other burial place is located in which deceased veteran’s bodies are interred shall submit the facts required for the record under sub. (1) to the department on the forms provided by the department, if so requested by the department. 45.62 History History: 2005 a. 22 ; 2025 a. 138 . subch. VII of ch. 45 SUBCHAPTER VII MEMORIALS
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Section 45.62 ("Burial places compiled.") is part of the Wisconsin Statutes, the codified statutory law of Wisconsin. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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