JC-0235
Texas Attorney General Opinion
Disinterment, permit from the Texas Department of Health required to remove remains from a cemetery to another, offsite location or to disturb remains in an unknown or abandoned cemetery in order to construct improvements on the property|Cemeteries, property dedicated as a cemetery must be used as a cemetery unless and until the dedication is removed|Cemetery location, restrictions in section 711.008 of the Health and Safety Code do not apply to a cemetery established and used for interment prior to September 1, 1991
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