17-1352. Same; hearing; determination; authority to contract, when.
17-1352
17-1352. Same; hearing; determination; authority to contract, when.
After service, as provided in the preceding section, has been made, a
hearing shall be had by said district court, to determine whether such
cemetery district should be dissolved, and the property rights of persons
living or dead either owning cemetery lots in said cemetery, or buried
therein, shall be dissolved and set aside, and, whether it would be to the
best interests of all parties concerned for said bodies to be disinterred
from said cemetery and reburied in another cemetery or cemeteries. If the
court shall find in the affirmative, then the directors of such cemetery
district shall be authorized to enter into a contract or contracts for the
sale of such cemetery property to such governmental agency or public
utility, subject to the approval of the court, and also to enter into a
contract or contracts for the removal and reburial of all persons buried in
said cemetery, subject to the approval of the court.
History: L. 1953, ch. 137, § 3; March 27.