REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5716 - AN
ACT AMENDING SECTION ONE THOUSAND SEVENTY-FOUR OF ACT NUMBERED
TWENTY-SEVEN HUNDRED AND ELEVEN, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE REVISED
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE (RE RESTRICTION AS TO PLACE OF SEPULTURE)
Section 1. Section one thousand seventy-four of Act Numbered
Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended to read as
follows:
"Sec. 1074. Restriction as to place of sepulture. —
No burial ground or cemetery shall be authorized or established, and no
place shall be used for purposes of sepulture, which shall not be at
least twenty-five meters from any dwelling house; but when compliance
with this provision is impracticable the above restriction may be
waived in whole or in part by written permit of the Director of Health,
provided such action is compatible with the sanitary requirements of
the community. Where an authorized or established cemetery has erected
a permanent solid wall, at least two meters in height, along its
boundary lines, said cemetery may construct or allow the construction
up to its boundary lines of tombs, vaults, mausoleums, or other
repositories of the dead.
"Chartered cities and municipalities or municipal districts shall have
no power to impose additional restrictions with regard to the place or
location of any cemetery, or other burial grounds, nor shall they have
the power to restrict, limit, or regulate the construction or location
within the cemetery or burial grounds of tombs, vaults, mausoleums or
other repositories of the dead.
"Dwelling house, as herein used, shall not include any abandoned house
or houses occupied by the employees or attendants of a cemetery or
otherwise properly used for purposes connected with the care thereof."
Sec. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Enacted without Executive
approval, June 21, 1969.
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