The City Manager shall establish charges for
lots and grave space or spaces. The schedule of charges shall be approved
by the governing body of the City of Parsons and a copy thereof kept
permanently on file in the office of the City Clerk for distribution
to all interested persons at such times and in such manner as the
City Clerk deems appropriate. Fifty percent of the amount charged
for lots and grave space or spaces shall be placed in the Lot Owners'
Endowment Fund of the City of Parsons.
All certificates or deeds for cemetery lots
shall be signed by the Mayor and City Clerk under the Seal of this
City, and the City Clerk shall keep a record of each and every lot
or part of a lot sold. No deed or certificate shall be delivered until
the purchase price is paid in full.
In case a lot has been sold or conveyed to any
purchaser and such purchaser shall fail for a period of one year following
the date of the agreement to pay the purchase price thereof, such
agreement, at the option of the City, shall be and remain canceled,
void and of no effect; however, if within the period of one year the
purchaser shall cause any dead person to be buried upon the lot so
agreed to be sold, that portion of the lot actually occupied by the
grave of the dead person so buried and a strip of ground one foot
wide adjacent to and surrounding the grave shall not be sold again
to any person or persons. If the person or persons shall voluntarily
remove or cause to be removed the dead person so buried in such grave,
the City may then sell and dispose of such grave and the ground surrounding
the same as herein described to any person or persons.
The sexton of the Oakwood Cemetery shall report
sales and entombment, burial and disinterment charges in a regular
report to the City Clerk and Public Works Director.
