2018 Indiana Code
TITLE 23. Business and other Associations
ARTICLE 14. CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
CHAPTER 65. City and Town Cemeteries
23-14-65-26. Payment of preliminary expenses for preparation of grant application; powers of cemetery board in improvement and development of cemetery
Sec. 26. (a) In seeking funds for the improvement and development of a cemetery, a cemetery board may pay all preliminary expenses that the cemetery board incurs in preparing and presenting an application to a federal agency or other agency having authority to grant aid to self-liquidating projects. The expenses may be paid out of funds at the disposal of the cemetery board.
(b) Upon the adoption of its resolution of determination under section 25 of this chapter, the cemetery board shall follow the procedure established by statute for the establishment of a sewage disposal plant by the municipality.
(c) In the improvement and development of a cemetery, a cemetery board has the same powers as the board of public works or board of public works and safety of a city, including the power to do the following:
(1) Create the necessary sinking fund.
(2) Pledge the receipts of the cemetery board.
(3) Fix the rates and charges of the cemetery board at a level sufficient to pay the obligations and mortgage of the cemetery board.
(4) Otherwise obligate the property under the control of the cemetery board to secure the payment of the obligations of the cemetery board as they mature, including interest.
As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.39.
