§ 7-35-2146 — Administration Of Permanent Care And Improvement Fund

7-35-2146 . Administration of permanent care and improvement fund. (1) From and after March 4, 1955, the trustees of such cemetery district as are mentioned in 7-35-2132 shall provide, by resolution spread upon the minutes of such public cemetery district, for the transfer to the trustees of such permanent care and improvement fund of not less than 15% or more than 40% of the money received from the sale of cemetery lots designated as perpetual care lots by said public cemetery district, together with all money theretofore or thereafter received from the owners of lots for the care of such lots. Such transfer of any such funds then on hand shall then and there be made. Such transfers shall be made thereafter quarterly, upon the first day of January, April, July, and October of each year, to the trustees of such fund.
(2) If at any time there shall remain in the hands of such public cemetery district unexpended money over and above the liabilities of the public cemetery district, the board of trustees of such public cemetery district may by a two-thirds vote appropriate the whole or any portion of such unexpended money to such permanent care and improvement fund, provided that such fund (exclusive of such portion thereof as may have been paid in by owners of lots for the care of such lots) shall never in any case be allowed to exceed the sum of $5,000 per acre of the cemetery to be cared for therewith, and when such fund shall reach such amount, all appropriations and payments thereto shall cease.

Legislative History

En. Sec. 9, Ch. 165, L. 1955; R.C.M. 1947, 9-224.