Section 471.24 Towns, Statutory Cities; Joint Maintenance of Cemetery
471.24 TOWNS, STATUTORY CITIES; JOINT MAINTENANCE OF CEMETERY.
Where a statutory city or town owns and maintains an established cemetery or burial ground, either within or without the municipal limits, the statutory city or town may, by mutual agreement with contiguous statutory cities and towns, each having a market value of not less than $2,000,000, join together in the maintenance of such public cemetery or burial ground for the use of the inhabitants of each of such municipalities; and each such municipality is hereby authorized, by action of its council or governing body, to levy a tax or make an appropriation for the annual support and maintenance of such cemetery or burial ground; provided, the amount thus appropriated by each municipality shall not exceed a total of $10,000 in any one year.
History:
(1933-64) 1931 c 262 s 1; 1945 c 213 s 1; 1957 c 75 s 1; 1963 c 609 s 1; 1969 c 506 s 1; 1973 c 123 art 5 s 7; 1980 c 356 s 1; 1985 c 52 s 1; 1988 c 719 art 5 s 84; 1989 c 329 art 13 s 20; 1990 c 480 art 9 s 20; 1994 c 505 art 4 s 6