15-1018.   Exclusion of territory from cemetery district located incertain cities; petition; county commissioners' duties.Whenever a petition signed by not less than fifty-one percent (51%) ofthe owners of property located in that portion of a cemetery districtlocated within the corporate limits of any city of the third class locatedin two (2) counties, requesting that property located within such city beexcluded from the boundaries of the cemetery district and describing suchproperty shall be filed with the board of county commissioners of suchcounty, it shall be the duty of such board of commissioners at its nextregular meeting to examine said petition and if it has been signed byfifty-one percent (51%) or more of the owners of such property and thatthere is no outstanding indebtedness against said cemetery district, itshall enter an order in its proceedings excluding such territory from theboundaries of the cemetery district. Such order shall be entered only ifthe excluded territory is to be attached to another cemetery's district.

      History:   L. 1967, ch. 116, § 1; July 1.