Bill Text: WV HB2125 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents' identity

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-11 - To House Judiciary [HB2125 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2012-HB2125-Introduced.html

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H. B. 2125

 

         (By Delegate Hunt (By Request))

         [Introduced January 11

, 2012; referred to the

         Committee on the Judiciary.]

 

 

 

 

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §35-5-9, relating to requiring every internment or grave to identify the decedents’ identity.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §35-5-9, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. CEMETERIES.

§35-5-9. Names on internments or graves required.

    From the effective date of this section, every internment or grave shall have a name plate identifying the decedents’ identity.

    NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require every internment or grave to identify the decedents’ identity.

    This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.