(A0173-12)
The city services commission shall consist of seven (7) members, one of whom shall be appointed by the Mayor annually, subject to confirmation by the city council to hold office for five years from the first Monday in March of the year of appointment, unless sooner removed.
(A0173-12)
The city services commission shall have and exercise all the powers of the board of sewer commissioners and board of water commissioners. The city services commission shall have charge of all public reservations owned or controlled by the city, and which are or may be used or known as parks, playgrounds, cemeteries, commons and the Everett Memorial Stadium.
(A0173-12)
The city services commission shall have the sole care and management of Glenwood Cemetery; may lay out any land acquired and set apart for such cemetery in lots or other suitable subdivisions, with proper paths and avenues; may plant, embellish, ornament and fence same; and erect therein such suitable edifices and conveniences and make such improvements as they deem necessary; and subject to the approval of the Mayor and City Council, may make such regulations, consistent with law, as they deem necessary relative to the cemetery.
(A0173-12)
The city services commission may by deed, made and executed in such manner and form as they may prescribe, convey to any person the sole and exclusive right of burials in any lot of the cemetery, and of erecting tombs and other monuments or structures thereon, upon such terms and conditions as their regulations prescribe. Such deeds and all subsequent deeds of such lots made by the owners thereof shall be recorded by the city service commission in their records and in the office of the City Clerk in books kept for that purpose, with filing fee as required by General Laws, Chapter 262, section 34, clause (78).
(Ord. of 5-23-88; Ord. of 06-25-2001; A0173-12)
The city services commission shall cause to be set aside from moneys obtained from the sale of lots in such cemetery an amount equal to seventy-five (75) percent thereof, which sum shall be known as the Glenwood Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund. The city treasurer shall invest such moneys in accordance with the provisions of the General Laws, chapter 44, section 54. The income of this fund shall be used for the perpetual care of the cemetery, under the direction of the city services commission.