566.21  Presumption of abandonment.

The continued failure by the owner to maintain or care for an unoccupied cemetery lot or space not under perpetual care, or to pay the annual care fee, for a period of ten years shall create the presumption that the lot or space has been abandoned. A lot with empty space under perpetual care which has not had a burial for seventy-five years shall create a presumption that the empty space has been abandoned.

Section History: Early form

  [C31, 35, § 10213-d2; C39, § 10213.3; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 566.21]

Section History: Recent form

  91 Acts, ch 188, §7

Internal References

  Referred to in § 566.27


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