14-1008. Conveyance of cemetery lots; regulations by council.
14-1008
14-1008. Conveyance of cemetery lots; regulations by council.
Cemetery lots owned by such city shall be conveyed by certificates
signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk under the seal of the
city, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is issued is the owner
of the lot or lots described therein by number, as laid down on such map or
plat, for the purpose of interment; and such certificate shall vest in the
purchaser, his or her heirs and assigns, a right in fee simple to such lot
for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the city
council, and such certificate shall be entitled to be recorded in the
office of register of deeds of the proper county, without further
acknowledgment; and such description of lots shall be deemed and recognized
as sufficient description thereof.
The council may limit the number of lots which shall be owned by the
same person at the same time; may prescribe rules for enclosing, adorning
and erecting monuments and tombstones on cemetery lots, and may prohibit
any 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, the
burial therein, for the ornamentation of graves, or of such lots.
History: L. 1872, ch. 100, § 72; March 13; R.S. 1923, § 14-1008.