15-1002.   Cemetery lots; conveyance; regulation.Cemetery lots owned by such city shall be conveyed by certificatessigned by the mayor and counter-signed 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 mapor plat, for the purposes of interment; and such certificate shall vest inthe purchaser, his or her heirs and assigns, a right in fee simple to suchlot, for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the citycouncil; and such certificate shall be entitled to be recorded in theoffice of the register of deeds of the proper county without furtheracknowledgment; and such description of lots shall be deemed and recognizedas a 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 adornment thereof,but no religious test shall be made as to the ownership of the lots, theburial therein, or the ornamentation of graves, or of such lots.

      History:   L. 1871, ch. 60, § 68; April 3; R.S. 1923, § 15-1002.