It is unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to erect, maintain, or operate any buildings, furnace or other appliances for cremating, incinerating, burning or other destroying of human bodies or any parts thereof, within three hundred (300) feet from any established residence in the county.

    This section shall not prevent the erection, operating or maintaining of any buildings, furnaces, or other appliances for cremating, incinerating, burning or other destroying of human bodies or other parts thereof as to any residence or residences, erected or established within the prescribed limits subsequently to the time of posting on the premises to be used and occupied for the buildings, furnaces or other appliances, a notice of intention to erect, operate and maintain the buildings, furnaces or other appliances on the posted premises. (Prior gen. code § 3-113.3)