ORS 97.730: Gifts and bequests in trust for cemeteries.
Edition: 2025 EditionEffective: 2026-01-01Last verified: 2026-09-07
Gifts, grants and bequests of personal property in trust for the purpose of providing perpetual care and maintenance, improvement or embellishment of private burial lots in or outside of cemeteries and of the walks, fences, monuments, structures or tombs thereon, are permitted and shall be deemed to be for perpetual and benevolent uses. They are not invalid by reason of any indefiniteness or uncertainty of the persons designated as beneficiaries in the instrument creating the trust; nor are they invalid as violating any existing laws against perpetuities or suspension of the power of alienation of title to property. But nothing in this section affects any existing authority or cause to pass upon the reasonableness of the amount of such gift, grant or bequest. Any cemetery association may act as trustee of and execute any such trust with respect to lots, walks, fences, monuments, structures or tombs, both within or outside its own cemetery limits, but within the county where such cemetery association has its principal office and place of business, whether such power is otherwise included in its corporate powers or not. INDIAN GRAVES AND PROTECTED OBJECTS
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Cited by
- ORS 97.010: Definitions.
- ORS 97.030: Vested rights not acquired.
- ORS 97.040: Private family burial grounds.
- ORS 97.120: Human remains to be deposited in accordance with ORS 97.010 to 97.040, 97.110 to 97.450, 97.510 to 97.730, 97.810 to 97.920 and 97.990.
- ORS 97.350: Dedication to cemetery purposes not invalid.
- ORS 97.630: Family plots; order of occupation.
- ORS 97.825: Suits to enforce endowed care statutes; attorney fees.
- ORS 696.030: Exemptions.
Official source: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors097.html