Pre-filed December 1, 1996, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.

Read 2nd time January 13, 1997, and referred to the Committee on Local Government and Economic Development.

Reported from the Committee February 3, 1997, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

Taken up February 12, 1997. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S0043.01P

To repeal section 214.132, RSMo 1994, relating to private burial grounds, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

     Section A. Section 214.132, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 214.132, to read as follows:

     214.132. 1. Any person who wishes to visit an abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground which is completely surrounded by privately owned land, for which no public ingress or egress is available, shall have the right to reasonable ingress or egress for the purpose of visiting such cemetery. This right of access to such cemeteries extends only to visitation during reasonable hours and only for purposes usually associated with cemetery visits.

     2. The sheriff or chief law enforcement officer of the county in which the abandoned family cemetery or private burying ground is located shall enforce the provisions of subsection 1 of this section.

     [2.] 3. Nothing in section 214.131 and this section shall be construed to limit or modify the power or authority of a court in any action of law or equity to order the disinterment and removal of the remains from a cemetery and interment in a suitable location.