§ 23-14-65-26 — Payment of preliminary expenses for preparation of grant application; powers of cemetery board in improvement and development of cemetery

Indiana § 23-14-65-26

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 23: BUSINESS AND OTHER ASSOCIATIONS
• Art. 14: CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS
• Ch. 65: City and Town Cemeteries

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(a) In seeking funds for the improvement
and development of a cemetery, a cemetery board may pay all
preliminary expenses that the cemetery board incurs in preparing and
presenting an application to a federal agency or other agency having
authority to grant aid to self-liquidating projects. The expenses may be
paid out of funds at the disposal of the cemetery board.
(b) Upon the adoption of its resolution of determination under
section 25 of this chapter, the cemetery board shall follow the
procedure established by statute for the establishment of a sewage
disposal plant by the municipality.
(c) In the improvement and development of a cemetery, a cemetery
board has the same powers as the board of public works or board of
public works and safety of a city, including the power to do the
following:
(1) Create the necessary sinking fund.
(2) Pledge the receipts of the cemetery board.
(3) Fix the rates and charges of the cemetery board at a level
sufficient to pay the obligations and mortgage of the cemetery
board.
(4) Otherwise obligate the property under the control of the
cemetery board to secure the payment of the obligations of the
cemetery board as they mature, including interest.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.52-1997, SEC.39.