{"data":{"id":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-1721.03","jurisdiction":"us-oh","citation":"Ohio Rev. Code § 1721.03","heading":"Proximity to dwellings.","body":"Land shall not be appropriated, nor shall a cemetery be located, by an association incorporated for cemetery purposes or by a benevolent or religious society, within one hundred yards of a dwelling house, unless the owner of such dwelling house gives his consent, or unless the entire tract appropriated is a necessary addition to or enlargement of a cemetery already in use. The limit shall not be less than one hundred yards when it is sought to appropriate for cemetery purposes property adjoining a cemetery already in use, when such dwelling house was erected subsequent to the laying out and establishing of such cemetery. When a cemetery lies within or adjoins a municipal corporation the association or corporation owning such cemetery, without such consent, may appropriate property within one hundred feet, or the width of a street or alley, of any dwelling house.\nThe addition of any land across a street or public road is an enlargement of an existing cemetery for the purposes of this section.","path":["Title 17 Corporations-Partnerships","Chapter 1721 Cemetery Associations"],"source_url":"https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1721.03","current_through":"1953-10-01 (House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:24:29Z","sha256":"2c593fa073417b6c3a19493b58a5c044ce19e645a6b61057157aeae329c0dc62","source_id":"us-oh","stale":false,"prev":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-1721.02","next":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-1721.04"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}