No person shall bury or cause to be buried the
body of any deceased person in the city, except in such grounds as
are or may be designated as burying grounds and authorized to be used
as such.
No cemetery or place of burial or interment
shall be established or used within the city until the City Council
shall have granted a permit for the same.
Before the permit required by the preceding
section shall be granted, a petition and plat shall be filed with
the City Clerk describing briefly the land desired and petition signed
by the person desiring the same. This petition shall be advertised
at least once a week for three (3) successive weeks in some public
newspaper published in the city before the same shall be acted upon
by the City Council.
The Committee on Cemeteries of the City Council
may make such rules and regulations for the management and care of
the city's cemeteries as may be necessary or expedient, provided that
such order, rules and regulations shall first be reported to and approved
by the City Council.
No person shall locate with any vehicle, stand
or basket within two hundred (200) feet of Oak Grove or Mineral Spring
Cemeteries for the purpose of selling or offering for sale any fruit
or other article.
The Superintendent of Public Works is hereby
authorized to purchase, in the name of and on behalf of the city,
from time to time, lots in the city cemeteries which the owners thereof
desire to dispose of at such price as he or she may deem reasonable
and for the best interest of the city. The purchase of such lots and
the price paid for them shall be approved by the Committee on Cemeteries
of the City Council. The amount paid for all such purchases shall
be charged to the annual appropriation for care and maintenance of
cemeteries, provided that in no one (1) year shall an amount exceeding
three hundred dollars ($300.) be expended for such purpose, except
by vote of the City Council.
No person owning any lot in any city cemetery
shall sell any single graves therein. An application for preparing
a grave for the burial of any person not a relative of the owner of
record of any such lot shall be prima facie evidence of such sale
of a single grave, and the Superintendent of Public Works shall thereupon
refuse to have such grave prepared until such owner shall present
satisfactory evidence to the Superintendent or to the Committee on
Cemeteries of the City Council that such burial is not a violation
of the provisions of this section.
No lots of land adjoining land which has been
known and used as burial grounds shall be deemed a portion of such
burial grounds, unless such lots shall also have been used as burial
grounds.
The Superintendent of Public Works is hereby
directed to have perpetual care taken of the Tower Post lot in Mineral
Spring Cemetery. The expense of the same shall be charged to the appropriation
for cemeteries.