The City Manager shall be responsible for the management of
the City cemeteries, and may delegate the duties involved in improvement,
maintenance and operation thereof. The City Manager shall report to
the City Council the financial and physical status of the cemeteries
and perpetual care funds, and shall incorporate in a proposed annual
budget such allocations of funds as may be necessary for their proper
management. The City Council shall levy and appropriate for the cemeteries
the necessary funds in a manner consistent with all budgeting requirements.
(Code 1994 § 12-1; Code 1965 § 8-3)
The City Manager is hereby authorized and empowered to make,
enforce, and modify or repeal, from time to time, such rules and regulations
as may be advisable for the management, use, improvement and maintenance
of the cemeteries and for the administration of endowment funds, not
inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
(Code 1994 § 12-2; Code 1965 § 8-13)
All payments made and received for perpetual care of grave spaces
in City cemeteries shall be recorded and maintained in a separate
fund from all other funds of the City, and shall constitute permanent
trust funds, for the purposes provided in this chapter, to be known
as the cemetery perpetual care fund, and such funds shall be invested
in accordance with the investment policy of the City. The principal
of such funds shall be preserved as an endowment for the perpetual
care and maintenance of grave spaces in the cemeteries, and the income
from such fund shall be used solely for such purpose. The aforesaid
funds shall be entirely independent of, and in addition to, payments
made for the purchase of lots or burial spaces for which perpetual
care is purchased.
(Code 1994 § 12-3; Code 1965 § 8-11)
