1. Select reinterment site.
2. Publish public notice in accordance with
KRS 424.130(b). Describe location of cemetery,
ask next-of-kin or persons with information
about identity of bodies to contact you, state
your intention of petitioning for permission to
move, name reinterment site, approximate date of
removal, and name, address and telephone number
of persons to contact.
3. Obtain consent and authorization for move
from next-of-kin who respond to public notice.
4. After sixty (60) days from first
publication of notice obtain from Fiscal Court
an order declaring the cemetery abandoned and
authorizing disinterment of those bodies which
are unindentified or for those which no response
to the notice was received (KRS 381.755).*
*NOTE: One county attorney has advised his
fiscal court that he interprets KRS 381.755 as
requiring the 60-day notice after the petition
is presented to the Fiscal Court. However, the
sequence is the one which has been followed by
the Kentucky Department of Transportation, Corps
of Engineers, mining companies, developers, and
individuals for many years.
5. Make plat of cemetery showing the location
of each grave and identify them by name and/or
number. Add to the plat graves which are found
through trenching or other exploratory methods.
6. Select person or firm to open graves and
reinter their contents (see KRS 381.765).
7. Obtain necessary permits from Registrar of
Vital Statistics, Department for Health
Services, 275 E MAIN ST, FRANKFORT KY 40621.
8. Take steps to insure that all human
remains and artifacts, including jewelry,
prosthetic devices, items of clothing, the
coffin or any parts thereof, etc., are removed
from the grave, kept together, and reburied to
the depths specified in 901 KAR 5:090.
9. Prepare plat showing by name and/or number
the location of the new graves.
10. Notify the Registrar of Vital Statistics
that the work is complete by filing with him
copies of both plats (items 5 and 9, above).
