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IN HB1122
Bill
Status
1/4/2018
Primary Sponsor
Chris May
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AI Summary
HB 1122 Summary
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Authorizes township trustees to provide financial assistance for cemetery maintenance to nonprofits if perpetual care funds and other sources are insufficient and assistance would prevent full maintenance responsibility from falling on the township.
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Requires township trustees providing assistance to enter into written agreements with cemeteries specifying maintenance expenses covered, procedures for reimbursement of documented expenses only, and agreement duration.
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Specifies that cemetery maintenance includes mowing the lawn, resetting monuments, leveling and seeding ground, constructing and repairing fences, and destroying detrimental plants and weeds.
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Allows township trustees to fund cemetery assistance from either the cemetery maintenance fund or money appropriated for nonprofit cemetery assistance, but prohibits direct payments to cemeteries.
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Effective July 1, 2018; applies to Indiana Code Chapter 23-14 regarding cemetery care and maintenance.
Legislative Description
Township assistance for cemetery maintenance. Authorizes the trustee of a township to provide financial assistance for maintenance purposes to a cemetery that is operated by a nonprofit organization and located in the township if the trustee reasonably believes that: (1) the funds available to the cemetery from its perpetual care fund and other sources are not sufficient to provide for the necessary maintenance of the cemetery; and (2) providing financial assistance to the cemetery will help to prevent the full responsibility for maintenance of the cemetery from falling on the township. Requires a township trustee of a township that assists
Last Action
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
1/25/2018