17-1307.   Cemeteries in or near cities; capital stock; directors;powers.Every corporation hereafter formed or organized or that has beenorganized subsequent to March 1, 1914, for the purpose of the establishmentand maintenance of cemeteries in, or within two miles of any city of thethird class, four miles of any city of the second class having a populationof less than twelve thousand, or within eight miles of any city of thefirst class or of any city of the second class having a population oftwelve thousand or more, shall have a capital stock and board of directorselected by the stockholders with the same duties and powers as the board ofdirectors of other corporations for profit, and is empowered to acquire andhold lands for cemetery purposes only, within such distances of suchcities, not to exceed two hundred acres, and is hereby authorized toenclose, lay out, or ornament and improve such lands held by suchcorporation for such purposes, and to divide said lands into burial lots;and that all of the acts of any board of directors heretofore legallyelected by stockholders in any such company, which would be legal if doneby any other private corporation, are hereby recognized, confirmed and madevalid: Provided, That no owner of any lot in any such cemetery shallbe a stockholder or member of any such corporation by reason of his beingsuch owner.

      History:   L. 1901, ch. 102, § 1; L. 1903, ch. 119, § 1; L. 1915, ch. 98, § 1;L. 1919, ch. 106, § 1; R.S. 1923, 17-1307; L. 1949, ch. 185, § 1; April2.