Utah Code 10-8-62. Cemeteries — Purchase and operation
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10-8-62. Cemeteries — Purchase and operation.
The city legislative body may:
The city legislative body may:
(1) | purchase, hold, and pay for lands within or without the corporate limits for the burial of the dead, and all necessary grounds for hospitals; |
(2) | have and exercise police jurisdiction over those lands, and over any cemetery used by the inhabitants of the city; |
(3) | survey, plat, map, fence, ornament, and otherwise improve, manage, and operate public burial and cemetery grounds; |
(4) | convey cemetery lots owned by the city, and pass ordinances for the protection and governing of these grounds consistent with Title 8, Chapter 5, Rights and Title to Cemetery Lots; |
(5) | contract for the care and improvement of cemeteries and cemetery lots, and for any compensation for the care and improvement; |
(6) | receive deposits for the care of lots and invest the deposits by following the procedures and requirements of Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act; and |
(7) | pay the cost of the care from any proceeds from the investment. |
Amended by Chapter 189, 2014 General Session