Senate Bill No. 538
(By Senator Dittmar)
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[Introduced March 22, 1993; referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article five, chapter thirty-five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
seven, relating to cemeteries; and prohibiting any cemetery
from charging more than fifty dollars to set a United States
memorial affairs grave marker.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five, chapter thirty-five of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
seven, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. CEMETERIES.
§35-5-7. Charges for setting United States memorial affairs
grave markers.
A public or private cemetery may not charge the survivor of
a veteran of the United States armed forces more than fifty
dollars for setting a United States department of memorialaffairs grave marker at the grave of a deceased veteran.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit public and
private cemeteries from charging the survivor of a veteran of the
United States armed forces more than fifty dollars to set a
United States department of memorial affairs grave marker.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.
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