214.010. Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries within boundaries--authority to regulate--penalties. - Missouri Statutes

Local government may acquire and dispose of cemeteries withinboundaries--authority to regulate--penalties.

214.010. Any town, city, village or county in the state ofMissouri may purchase, receive and hold real estate within suchcity, town, village or county for the burial of the dead, andmay lease, sell or otherwise dispose of the same. The councilof such cities, towns and villages or county commissioners maymake rules and pass ordinances or orders imposing penalties andfines not exceeding one thousand dollars, regulating, protectingand governing cemeteries within such cities, towns, villages,and counties, the owners of lots therein, visitors thereto, andpunishing trespassers thereon.

(RSMo 1939 § 15277, A.L. 1990 H.B. 1079)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 14068; 1919 § 1092; 1909 § 1314