A cemetery corporation shall have power to inclose, improve, and embellish its grounds, avenues and walks, and to erect buildings or vaults for its use and to prescribe in its bylaws rules for the sale, inclosure, or ornamentation of lots and for erecting monuments or gravestones thereon; and to prohibit any use, division, improvement, or ornamentation of any lot which the corporation may deem improper; and to make other bylaws and acts to the end that all the appliances, conveniences, and benefits of the public and private cemetery may be obtained and secured.

Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 47-29-20

  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.

Source: SDC 1939, § 11.1908.

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