12-1420.   Cemetery board; appointment; salary of secretary.Any city may, by ordinance, create acemetery board of seven directors, to manage, operate, maintain and improvecemeteries owned by the city. Such directors shall be appointed by the mayorwith the consent of the governing body, from the residents of the city atlarge, but no person holding any official position under the city shall beappointed a director while holding such office. The directors shall receiveno compensation for such services, except that the board ofdirectors may pay the secretary such a sum per annum as the governing bodyof the city shall fix for keeping the records,selling the lots, and other duties devolving upon the secretary in thatoffice.

      History:   L. 1927, ch. 107, § 1; L. 1945, ch. 99, § 5; L. 1982,ch. 72, § 9; July 1.