                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

MEANING OF &#8220;CEMETERY&#8221; FOR PURPOSES OF ZONING (§ 15.2-2288.5)

A. A &#8220;cemetery&#8221; for purposes of this chapter shall have the meaning
set forth in &#xA7; 54.1-2310.

B. Nothing in this section shall exempt a licensed funeral home or cemetery from
any applicable zoning regulation.

C. The following uses shall be included in the approval of a cemetery without
further zoning approval being required: all uses necessarily or customarily
associated with interment of human remains, benches, ledges, walls, graves,
roads, paths, landscaping, and soil storage consistent with federal, state, and
local laws on erosion sediment control.

D. Mausoleums, columbaria, chapels, administrative offices, and maintenance and
storage areas that are shown in a legislative approval for the specific cemetery
obtained at the request of the owner shall not require additional local
legislative approval provided such structures and uses are developed in
accordance with the original local legislative approval. This subsection shall
not supersede any permission required by an ordinance adopted pursuant to &#xA7;
15.2-2306 relative to historic districts.

HISTORY: 2012, cc. 414, 478.