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2012 Utah Code
Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code
Article 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities
Section 62 - Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation.

Universal Citation:
UT Code ยง 10-8-62 (2012)
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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;

(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, Municipal Cemeteries;

(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 9, 2001 General Session

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