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(1) (at) Cemetery management insurance fund (s. 25.86);".".
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1425.86 Cemetery management insurance fund. There is established a
15separate nonlapsible trust fund designated as the cemetery management insurance
16fund, to consist of each of the following:
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17(1) The moneys received from death certificate filing fees under s. 69.22 (1) (e).
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18(2) The moneys received from the issuance of copies of death certificates under
19s. 69.22 (1) (f).".".
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(2) (j) Authorize burials under s. 157.066.
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162.23
(7) (c)
Purposes in view. Such regulations shall be made in accordance
2with a comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure
3safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to promote health and the general welfare;
4to provide adequate light and air, including access to sunlight for solar collectors and
5to wind for wind energy systems; to encourage the protection of groundwater
6resources; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of
7population; to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage,
8schools, parks and other public requirements;
to authorize burials if an ordinance is
9enacted under s. 157.066; and to preserve burial sites, as defined in s. 157.70 (1) (b).
10Such regulations shall be made with reasonable consideration, among other things,
11of the character of the district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, and
12with a view to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most
13appropriate use of land throughout such city.".".
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15"901d. Page 693, line 7: after "in" insert "
, together with the fee required under
16s. 69.22 (1) (e),".
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18"69.22
(1) (a) Except as provided under
par. pars. (c)
and (f), $7 for issuing one
19certified copy of a vital record and
$2 $3 for any additional certified copy of the same
20vital record issued at the same time.".
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169.22
(1) (e) Ten dollars for receiving a death certificate filed by a person
2required to file a certificate of death under s. 69.18 (1) (b), which shall be forwarded
3to the state treasurer under sub. (1r).
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69.22
(1) (f) Eight dollars for issuing a copy of a death certificate, $1 of which
6shall be forwarded to the state treasurer under sub. (1r).".
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69.22
(1r) By the 15th day of the first month following the end of a calendar
10quarter, the state registrar and any person acting under this subchapter shall
11forward to the state treasurer the amounts specified in sub. (1) (e) and (f) that are
12received during the calendar quarter. The state treasurer shall credit all amounts
13received under this subsection to the cemetery management insurance fund.".".
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16"
Section 2852bb. 157.061 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 157.061 (1c) and
17amended to read:
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157.061
(1c) "Burial" means entombment, inurnment
or, interment
, or
19placement in a mausoleum, vault, crypt, or columbarium.
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(1b) "Board" means the cemetery board.
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(1d) "Burial space" means a space that is used or intended to be used
24for the burial of human remains and, when used in reference to the sale, purchase,
1or ownership of a burial space, includes the right to bury human remains in the
2burial space.
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(1j) "Business representative" has the meaning given in s. 452.01 (3k).
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(1p) "Cemetery" means a place that is dedicated to and used or
7intended to be used for the final disposition of human remains.
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(2m) "Cemetery lot" means a grave or 2 or more contiguous graves
and,
10when used in reference to the sale, purchase or ownership of a cemetery lot, includes
11the right to bury human remains in that cemetery lot.
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(3) "Cemetery merchandise" means goods associated with the burial
14of human remains, including monuments, markers, nameplates, vases
, and urns,
15and any services that are associated with supplying or delivering those goods or with
16the burial of human remains and that may be lawfully provided by a cemetery
17authority
, including opening and closing of a burial space. The term does not include
18caskets or outer burial containers.
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(3g) "Columbarium" means a building, structure, or part of a building
21or structure that is used or intended to be used for the inurnment of cremains.
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(3r) "Columbarium space" means a niche, crypt, or specific place in a
24columbarium that contains or is intended to contain cremains.
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(8g) "Lawn crypt" means an interment space in chambers that are
2preplaced at either a single depth or multiple depths and that are located primarily
3underground.
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(8r) "Licensed cemetery authority" means a cemetery authority that
6is licensed under s. 440.91 (1).
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(11r) "Payment of principal" means the portion of a payment for the
9purchase of
a cemetery lot, cemetery merchandise or a
mausoleum burial space that
10represents the principal amount owed by the purchaser for the
cemetery lot, 11cemetery merchandise or
mausoleum burial space, and does not include any portion
12of the payment that represents any taxes, finance or interest charges
, or insurance
13premiums.
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(14m) "Registered cemetery authority" means a cemetery authority
16that is registered under s. 440.91 (1m).
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(15) "Religious association" means any church, synagogue
, or mosque
19or any, incorporated college of a religious order, or religious society organized under
20ch. 187.
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(15m) "Religious cemetery authority" means a cemetery authority of
23a cemetery owned and operated by a religious association.
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(17) "Undeveloped space" means a mausoleum space
, columbarium
2space, or lawn crypt that is not ready for the burial of human remains on the date
3of the sale of the mausoleum space
, columbarium space, or lawn crypt.
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(1) Organization. Seven or more residents of the same county may
6form a cemetery association. They shall meet, select a chairperson and secretary,
7choose a name, fix the annual meeting date, and elect by ballot not less than 3 nor
8more than 9 trustees whom the chairperson and secretary shall immediately divide
9by lot into 3 classes, who shall hold their offices for 1, 2
, and 3 years, respectively.
10Within 3 days, the chairperson and secretary shall certify the corporate name, the
11names, home addresses and business addresses of the organizers and of the trustees,
12and their classification, and the annual meeting date acknowledged by them, and
,
13except as provided in sub. (9), deliver the certification to the department of financial
14institutions. The association then has the powers of a corporation.
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(2) Amendments. The association may change its name, the number
17of trustees or the annual meeting date by resolution at an annual meeting, or special
18meeting called for such purpose, by a majority vote of the members present, and
,
19except as provided in sub. (9), by delivering to the department of financial
20institutions a copy of the resolution, with the date of adoption, certified by the
21president and secretary or corresponding officers.
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(3) Validation. When there shall have been a bona fide attempt to
24organize a cemetery association, but a failure to record a properly drawn and
25executed certificate of organization, and it has in good faith bought and platted
1grounds and conveyed
cemetery lots burial spaces and carried on business for over
225 years, the same shall be a body corporate from the date of conveyance to it of real
3estate, and its transfers and other transactions are validated.
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(4) (a) An annual election shall be held during the annual meeting.
6The annual meeting, and any special meeting described in sub. (2), shall be held at
7a place in the county chosen by the trustees upon public notice as required by the
8bylaws. Trustees chosen after the first election shall be proprietors of
cemetery lots 9burial spaces in the cemetery, residents of the state, and hold office for 3 years.
10Election shall be by ballot and a plurality shall elect. Each owner of one or more
11cemetery lots burial spaces is entitled to one vote, and one of several owners of a
12cemetery lot burial space, designated by the majority of them, shall cast the vote.
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(5) Trustees; duties, report. The trustees may fill vacancies for the
15unexpired term. One shall be chosen president, and they shall appoint a secretary
16and treasurer, and may require security of the treasurer. The trustees shall manage
17the affairs and property of the association and control and beautify the cemetery, and
18may establish regulations for those purposes. The trustees shall make and file
19written reports as required in s. 157.62
(1) and (2).
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(6) (b) If an association that has been dissolved under par. (a), or any
22group that was never properly organized as a cemetery association, has cemetery
23grounds and human remains are buried in the cemetery grounds, 5 or more
24members, or persons interested as determined by order of the circuit judge under par.
25(c), may publish a class 3 notice, under ch. 985, in the municipality in which the
1cemetery is located, of the time, place
, and object of the meeting, assemble
, and
2reorganize by the election of trustees and divide them into classes as provided in sub.
3(1), the commencement of the terms to be computed from the next annual meeting
4date. The secretary shall enter the proceedings of the meeting on the records. The
5association is reorganized upon delivery of a copy of the proceedings to the
6department of financial institutions
, except as provided in sub. (9). Upon
7reorganization, the title to the cemetery grounds, trust funds
, and all other property
8of the association or group vests in the reorganized association, under the control of
9the trustees. The reorganized association may continue the name of the dissolved
10association or may adopt a new name.
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(6) (c) If an association is dissolved under par. (a) or any group has
13never been properly organized as cemetery association, and there are fewer than 5
14members living or residing in the county where the cemetery is located, the circuit
15judge for the county shall upon the petition of any person interested, make an order
16determining who are persons interested in the cemetery. Any adult person who owns
17an interest in any
cemetery lot burial space in the cemetery, who is related to any
18person buried in the cemetery, or who is a descendant, brother, sister, nephew, niece
, 19or surviving spouse of a member of the dissolved association, is an interested person.
20The circuit judge may make the order upon evidence he or she deems sufficient, with
21or without hearing. The order need not contain the names of all persons interested,
22but shall contain the names of at least 5 such persons.
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1157.063 General duties and powers of board. (1) In addition to the other
2duties and powers of the board under this subchapter, the board shall do each of the
3following:
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(a) Advise the secretary of regulation and licensing on matters relating to
5cemeteries, to this subchapter or subch. VIII of ch. 440, or to the board.
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(b) Independently exercise its powers, duties, and functions that are specified
7in this subchapter and subch. VIII of ch. 440.
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(c) Be the supervising authority of all personnel, other than shared personnel,
9engaged in the review, investigation, or handling of information regarding
10investigations and disciplinary matters affecting persons who are registered or
11licensed by the department under subch. VIII of ch. 440, or in the exercise of
12administrative discretion with regard to the discipline of those persons.
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(d) Maintain, in conjunction with the board's operations, in central locations
14designated by the department, all records pertaining to the functions independently
15retained by the board.
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(e) Compile and keep current a register of the names and addresses of all
17persons who are registered or licensed by the department under subch. VIII of ch. 440
18that is retained by the department and that is available for public inspection during
19the days specified in s. 230.35 (4) (a). The department may also make the register
20available to the public by electronic transmission.
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21(2) The board does not have rule-making authority.
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(2) A cemetery or religious association incorporated in this state and
24having a cemetery in or near a 1st or 2nd class city and any cemetery described under
25s. 157.065 (3m) (d) may acquire by gift or purchase up to 30 acres of adjoining lands
1for cemetery purposes, and may pay for it wholly or partly from its
cemetery lot burial
2space sales.
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(6) Whenever the majority of the members of a cemetery association,
5or of a religious association authorized to hold lands for cemetery purposes, present
6at an annual meeting or special meeting called for such purpose vote to convey all
7of the cemetery association's or religious association's cemetery property, trust funds
8and other property used for cemetery purposes to another cemetery association or
9religious association, the trustees of the association shall transfer the property upon
10the acceptance of the transfer by the other association by affirmative vote of a
11majority of its members present at an annual meeting or special meeting called for
12that purpose. Upon such acceptance, the title to the cemetery property, trust funds
13and other property of the transferring association vests in the accepting association
14under the control of the trustees of the accepting association. A conveyance under
15this subsection is subject to s. 157.08 (2). This subsection does not apply to a religious
16society organized under ch. 187 cemetery authority.
