79.430. Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same. - Missouri Statutes

Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same.

79.430. The board of aldermen shall have power to purchase,receive, and to hold real estate, as herein mentioned, for publiccemeteries, either within or without the city, within a distanceof three miles thereof, and the city and its officers shall havejurisdiction over the said cemeteries wherever located; provided,that no such cemetery shall exceed eighty acres in one body. Theboard of aldermen shall provide for the survey, platting,grading, fencing, ornamenting and improving of all the cemeteryground, and the avenues leading thereto, owned by the city, andmay construct walks and protect ornamental trees, and provide forpaying the expenses therefor. The board of aldermen may makerules and pass ordinances imposing penalties and fines,regulating, protecting and governing city cemeteries, the ownersof lots therein, visitors thereto, and punish trespasserstherein, and the officers of such city shall have as fulljurisdiction and power in the enforcing of such rules andordinances as though they related to the city itself.

(RSMo 1939 § 7190)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 7040; 1919 § 8491; 1909 § 9393