                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

REVERSION OF UNOCCUPIED CEMETERY LOTS IN CITIES AND CERTAIN TOWNS; REBUTTABLE
PRESUMPTION (§ 57-39.2)

The ownership of or right or interest in any unoccupied cemetery lot in any
cemetery located in any city or in any town in the Counties of Scott and Wythe,
or in any town in any county having the urban county executive form of
government, which cemetery is under the ownership and charge of such city or
town, or any corporation, association, or trustees, shall, upon abandonment,
revert to such city, town, corporation, association, or trustees having
ownership and charge of the cemetery containing any such lot. The continued
failure to maintain or care for an unoccupied cemetery lot for a period of at
least 30 years shall establish a rebuttable presumption that such lot has been
abandoned.

HISTORY: 1962, c. 264; §§ 57-39.2 through 57-39.7; 1964, c. 111; 1985, c. 414;
1986, c. 118; 2020, c. 669.