[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Lakeville 3-9-1959, AG approved 4-10-1959. Amendments noted where applicable.[1]]
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Editor's Note: The General Bylaws of the Town were readopted in their entirety 5-8-2023 ATM by Art. 12, AG approved 11-13-2023. See Ch. 1, Art. III.
The Town will receive, hold and apply any fund, money or securities deposited with the Town Treasurer for the preservation, care, improvement or embellishment of any public or private burial place in the Town or of burial lots situated in such burial places.
The Town Treasurer may enter into agreements in behalf of the Town with the holders of burial rights in any lot in the cemeteries of the Town to keep forever such lot and the structures and grass thereon in good and neat condition, so far as the same can be done by an expenditure not exceeding the income from any sum of money or not exceeding the income from any securities which such holder may have deposited with the Town Treasurer for such purpose.
Money and securities received under the provisions of the preceding section shall not be mingled with other money or securities of the Town but shall be kept and invested separately as a cemetery fund, and unless otherwise specially provided for in the terms of the gift, the income only shall be used.