2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
CHAPTER 39 - CEMETERIES AND CEMETERY COMMISSIONS
Section 5-39-10. Acquisition and operation of cemeteries authorized; police powers outside municipality.
The city or town council of every incorporated city or town in this State may purchase or otherwise acquire, own, hold, operate, subdivide and develop cemeteries or burial grounds in or near such city or town and lands for cemeteries or burial grounds in or near such city or town and dispose of lots or portions of such cemeteries or burial grounds and lots or portions of such lands under such terms and conditions as the city or town council may prescribe. All police powers of any such municipality shall extend to any cemetery or burial ground owned, operated or controlled by the municipality which lies outside the incorporated limits thereof.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-1401; 1952 Code Section 47-1401; 1947 (45) 54.
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