                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEEDINGS; DETERMINATION OF ABANDONMENT (§ 57-39.3)

Any city, town, corporation, association, or trustees having ownership and
charge of a cemetery that is located in a city, or town in a county, as provided
in § 57-39.2, may file a petition in the circuit court within whose
jurisdiction the cemetery is situated, setting forth its ownership of the
cemetery and facts relating to the continued failure by the owner of an
unoccupied cemetery lot in such cemetery to maintain and care for such lot for
at least 30 consecutive years immediately preceding, and requesting an order
adjudging any such lot to be abandoned. Upon the filing of such petition, the
court upon proper motion shall set a date for a hearing.

HISTORY: 1962, c. 264; 1964, c. 111; 1986, c. 118; 2020, c. 669.