Tex. Health & Safety Code Section 715.013
Adjacent or Contiguous Cemetery

A nonprofit corporation authorized to restore, operate, and maintain a historic cemetery may not acquire land for cemetery purposes that is adjacent or contiguous to the cemetery unless the adjacent or contiguous land is operated as a perpetual care cemetery under Chapter 712 (Perpetual Care Cemeteries). The nonprofit corporation may not petition the district court of the county in which the cemetery is located to remove the dedication with respect to all or any portion of the cemetery.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 899, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 28, 1995.

Source: Section 715.013 — Adjacent or Contiguous Cemetery, https://statutes.­capitol.­texas.­gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.­715.­htm#715.­013 (accessed May 26, 2025).

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