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--- (1) --- Cross reference— Administration, Ch. 2; planning, Ch. 15.
State Law reference— Cemeteries, G.L. 1956, § 23-18-1 et seq.; town regulation of burial grounds, G.L. 1956, § 23-18-10.
Sec. 5-1. - Permit to establish.#
(a)
Required. No cemetery or place of burial shall be established in the compact part of the town until the town council shall grant a permit for the same.
(b)
Petition. Before a permit shall be granted by the town council for the establishment of a cemetery or burial ground within the town, a petition shall be filed with the town council, which petition shall be advertised for two (2) weeks in some public newspaper of general circulation in the town before the same shall be acted upon by the town council.
(Code 1967, §§ 7-1, 7-2)
Sec. 5-2. - Burials and graves generally.#
(a)
No person shall bury or inter or cause to be buried or interred any dead body, or dig or cause to be dug any grave anywhere within the compact part of the town without permission from the town council to do so.
(b)
The Kickemuit Cemetery, North Cemetery, St. Alexander's Cemetery, St. John's Cemetery, St. Mary's Cemetery, South Cemetery, Butterworth's Family Cemetery, Cole's Family Cemetery and Mason's Family Cemetery within the compact part of the town are hereby exempt from the provisions of this section.
(Code 1967, § 7-3)