The procedure for legalising at Tallinn cemeteries

The purpose of legalising is to take into use the burial places without the possessors or to change their use.
According to the rules of the use of Tallinn cemeteries the following burial places are subject to legalising:

1. The right of use of the burial place has been given up

2. Burial places have not been maintained

• Tallinna Kalmistud, institution managed by Tallinn Municipal Engineering Services Department, shall establish a committee for survey of burial places.
  In general, survey of burial places is performed at the end of summer.
• During the survey the burial places which service time has ended or which have not been maintained are marked with a label where the order number of survey and the survey protocol have been marked with a weatherproof paint. Description of the burial place with the date of survey is written in the survey protocol.
• After the end of the first survey period the city government notifies of performing the survey in the local newspaper.
• The company managing the cemetery examines the burial places surveyed during the year and enters all the information obtained in the field of notes of the survey protocol.
• After a year has passed (if not earlier than the date marked on the label) the follow-up examination is performed by the same committee, as a result of which a legal document is drawn up where further use of non-maintained burial places is marked.
• When right of use of the burial places is given up (based on the written application by the possessor of the burial place which has to be maintained in cemetery's registration book of burial places of the family) the burial place is legalised without one year term.