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Kentucky Revised Statutes Title L. Kentucky Penal Code § 525.115.Violating graves

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) A person is guilty of violating graves when he intentionally:

(a) Mutilates the graves, monuments, fences, shrubbery, ornaments, grounds, or buildings in or enclosing any cemetery or place of sepulture; or

(b) Violates the grave of any person by destroying, removing, or damaging the headstone or footstone, or the tomb over the enclosure protecting any grave; or

(c) Digs into or plows over or removes any ornament, shrubbery, or flower placed upon any grave or lot.

(2) The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to ordinary maintenance and care of a cemetery nor the removal and relocation of graves pursuant to procedures authorized by and in accordance with applicable statutes.

(3) Violating graves is a Class D felony.

(4) The court shall order the defendant to restore the cemetery to its pre-damage condition.

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