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       (1067)  VETERANS — INTERMENT RIGHTS   (HF2264)  Draft  relating to interment rights of certain veterans and their spouses in cemeteries owned and controlled by governmental subdivisions.Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:   (1)Section 523I.304, subsection 7, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:7.A cemetery owned and controlled by a governmental subdivision shall adopt and enforce a rule allowing any veteran who is a landowner or who lives within the governmental subdivision to purchase an interment space and to be interred within the cemetery.The rule shall also allow any veteran who purchases an interment space within the cemetery to purchase an interment space for interment of the spouse of the veteran if such a space is available and shall allow the surviving spouse of a veteran interred within the cemetery to purchase an interment space and be interred within the cemetery if such a space is available. For the purposes of this section, “veteran” means the same as defined in section 35.1.Approved April 5, 2012