Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 114 § 16
Current through Chapter 223 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Any town may annually appropriate and raise by taxation such sums as may be necessary to care for and keep in good order and to protect by proper fences any or all burial grounds within the town in which ten or more bodies are interred and which are not properly cared for by the owners, and the care and protection of such burial grounds shall be in charge of the cemetery commissioners, if the town has such officers, otherwise in charge of the selectmen.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 114, § 16