ARTICLE 18. - PROHIBITING INTERMENTS IN GROUNDS ON LOCKWOOD STREET
Part of the Code of Ordinances of West Warwick, RI.
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Sec. 1. - Authorized.#
The town council of the Town of West Warwick is authorized and empowered to adopt an ordinance prohibiting interment of bodies in a certain private burying ground or burying plat located on the easterly side of Lockwood street, a short distance to the north of the northeast corner of Lockwood street and Cowesett avenue.
(Laws 1958, ch. 137, § 1)
Sec. 2. - Disinterment authorized.#
The town council of the Town of West Warwick is authorized and empowered, at the petition of any owner or owners of land abutting said burying ground, to permit, subject to such conditions as said council may impose, the disinterment of any bodies in said burying ground or plat and the transfer of said bodies to some other place of burial.
The town council of the Town of West Warwick shall, before acting on any such petition for disinterment and reburial, publish in the Daily Times once per week for two (2) successive weeks of the filing of such petition and of hearing thereon.
(Laws 1958, ch. 137, § 2)