{"data":{"id":"us-vt/18-v.s.a.-5371","jurisdiction":"us-vt","citation":"18 V.S.A. § 5371","heading":"Town or city to furnish headstone","body":"In case of the burial of a person not having known estate, and not having a suitable marker or headstone erected at the person’s grave within three years after the date of such burial, the selectboard of the town or the aldermen of a city, as the case may be, where such person is buried, shall cause to be erected at such person’s grave, at the expense of such town or city, a suitable marker or headstone with the inscription thereon of the name of the deceased and dates of the deceased’s birth and death, if the same are known.","path":["Title 18: Health","Chapter 121: Cemeteries","Subchapter 002: TOWN CEMETERIES"],"source_url":"https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/18/121/05371","current_through":"2025 session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T17:17:03Z","sha256":"469e29b7d967088364a8592aa6ad0f0b34af74eaa46947f75fd3b72cd78b8d8c","source_id":"us-vt","stale":false,"prev":"us-vt/18-v.s.a.-5370","next":"us-vt/18-v.s.a.-5372"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}