14-1008.   Conveyance of cemetery lots; regulations by council.Cemetery lots owned by such city shall be conveyed by certificatessigned by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk under the seal of thecity, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is issued is the ownerof the lot or lots described therein by number, as laid down on such map orplat, for the purpose of interment; and such certificate shall vest in thepurchaser, his or her heirs and assigns, a right in fee simple to such lotfor the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the citycouncil, and such certificate shall be entitled to be recorded in theoffice of register of deeds of the proper county, without furtheracknowledgment; and such description of lots shall be deemed and recognizedas sufficient description thereof.

      The council may limit the number of lots which shall be owned by thesame person at the same time; may prescribe rules for enclosing, adorningand erecting monuments and tombstones on cemetery lots, and may prohibitany diversion of the use of such lots, and any improper adornments thereof;but no religious test shall be made as to the ownership of the lots, theburial therein, for the ornamentation of graves, or of such lots.

      History:   L. 1872, ch. 100, § 72; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-1008.