Tex. Health & Safety Code § 711.023 · Subchapter B. CEMETERY CORPORATIONS
RIGHTS OF PLOT OWNERS IN CEMETERY OPERATED BY NONPROFIT CEMETERY CORPORATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person who purchases a plot from a nonprofit cemetery corporation is a shareholder of the corporation. The person may vote in the election of corporate officers and on other matters to the same extent as a stockholder in another corporation.
(b) An owner of a plot in a cemetery operated by a nonprofit corporation is a shareholder in any corporation that owns the cemetery. The plot owner may exercise the rights and privileges of a shareholder, whether the owner acquired title to the plot from the corporation or before the corporation was organized.
(c) This section does not apply to a nonprofit cemetery corporation formed before September 1, 1963, if:
(1) the corporation was formed under Subdivision 87, Article 1302, Revised Statutes; and
(2) the charter or the articles of incorporation of the corporation provide that the corporation has no capital stock.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1284, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.711.htm
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