Chap. 705.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1414 of the code of Vir-
ginia, as amended by an act approved January 15, 1900, so as to regulate
the location of cemeteries in Henrico county and confer certain authority
upon the town council of Barton Heights.

Approved March 8, 1900.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen hundred and fourteen of the code, as amended by an act
approved January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

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$1414. Location of cemeteries; limitation as to quantity of land.—
Nothing contained in the four preceding sections shall be so construed
as to authorize any cemetery to be hereafter established within the cor-
porate limits of any city or town, or within four hundred yards of any
residence without the consent of the owner of such residence; or to
authorize the conveyance of more than seventy-five, or the condemnation
of more than two acres of land for use of a cemetery: provided, how-
ever, that no cemetery shall hereafter be extended, enlarged or estab-
lished in the county of Henrico, within one mile of any residence in said
county, or within one mile of the town of Barton Heights: and, pro-
vided further, that the town council of Barton Heights shall have
jurisdiction over, and are hereby empowered to make, by proper ordi-
nances, such rules and regulations for the governing of the burial of dead
bodies in the cemeteries adjoining the town of Barton Heights, known
as Ham/’s, Cedarwood, Methodist, Union Mechanics’, Ebenezer, and
Sycamore cemeteries, as to the said council shall be to the best interests
of the said cemeteries and most conducive to the health and comfort of
the town of Barton Heights, and to prevent the creation of nuisance by
improper burials. The said council of the town of Barton Heights being
by this act empowered to enforce the observance of such ordinances, they
may ordain in relation to said cemeteries and to punish persons violating
such ordinances, so that any fine which may be imposed for such viola-
tion shall not be in excess of fifty dollars and imprisonment not exceeding
twelve months, or both by fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of
the court.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.