§ 23-14-65-28 — Rules; enforcement

Indiana § 23-14-65-28

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

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(a) A cemetery board may do the following:
(1) Make reasonable rules and regulations for the management,
control, direction, care, and maintenance of the property under the
control of the cemetery board.
(2) Make and enforce reasonable regulations respecting the
placement and erection of markers, monuments, tombstones, and
mausoleums that any person desires to place or erect in the
cemetery.
(3) Seize and impound animals running at large in the cemetery
and establish a suitable place for impounding them, assessing the
reasonable costs to the owner.
(4) Vacate streets, alleys, roads, or highways, or parts of them,
lying within lands under the control of the cemetery board in the
same manner as is prescribed under the powers of street
improvement authority of the municipality.
(5) Provide proper facilities for furnishing electric lighting, water,
and sewer facilities in the cemetery, ordering a public utility to
construct and install equipment that is necessary for these
purposes.
(b) For the purposes of making rules and regulations for the
management and control of property under subsection (a)(1), a
cemetery board may request from the police authority of the
municipality the manpower necessary to carry out and enforce the rules
and regulations of the cemetery board. The police authority shall
comply with the request to the extent that it is able to comply at the
time the request is made, considering all other obligations and duties
of the police authority. If the cemetery board and the police authority
disagree over these matters, the controversy shall be settled by an order
of the executive of the municipality.

Legislative History

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