Utah Code 10-8-62. Cemeteries — Purchase and operation

10-8-62. Cemeteries — Purchase and operation.
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;

City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5

(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