Effective - 28 Aug 1939
79.440. Cemetery lots, how sold. — The cemetery lots shall be conveyed by certificates, signed by the mayor, countersigned by the clerk, under the seal of the city, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot described therein by numbers, as laid down upon the official map or plat of such cemetery made by the city, for the purpose of interment, and such certificate shall vest in the purchaser, his or her heirs or assigns, a right in fee simple to such lots, for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the board of aldermen. Such certificates shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of recorder of deeds of the proper county without further acknowledgment, and such description of lots shall be deemed and recognized as sufficient description thereof. The board of aldermen may limit the number of lots owned by the same person at the same time, and may prescribe rules for enclosing, adorning and erecting monuments, tombstones and ornaments on cemetery lots, and prohibit any improper adornment thereof; but no religious test shall be made to the ownership of the lots, or the burials had therein, or for the ornamentation of graves or lots.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7191)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 7041; 1919 § 8492; 1909 § 9394
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title VII - Cities, Towns and Villages
Chapter 79 - Cities of the Fourth Classification
Section 79.010 - Fourth class cities, incorporation of.
Section 79.020 - City limits may be altered, how.
Section 79.025 - Annexation of territory prohibited, when (City of Byrnes Mill).
Section 79.030 - Election of officers.
Section 79.035 - Primary election may be held, procedure, cost, exception.
Section 79.040 - Election ordered.
Section 79.055 - City marshal, training requirements, fourth class cities.
Section 79.070 - Aldermen, qualifications.
Section 79.080 - Mayor, qualifications.
Section 79.090 - Board to select an acting president, term.
Section 79.100 - Acting president to perform duties of mayor, when.
Section 79.110 - Mayor and board — duties.
Section 79.120 - Mayor may sit in board.
Section 79.130 - Ordinances — procedure to enact — inapplicable, when.
Section 79.130 - Ordinances — procedure to enact.
Section 79.135 - Proposed ordinance by petition, procedure (City of Savannah).
Section 79.140 - Bills must be signed — mayor's veto.
Section 79.150 - Board to keep journal of proceedings.
Section 79.160 - Board shall publish semiannual statements.
Section 79.165 - No money of city to be disbursed until statement is published — penalty.
Section 79.180 - Board may compel attendance of witnesses — mayor to administer oaths.
Section 79.190 - Mayor to sign commissions.
Section 79.200 - Mayor shall have the power to enforce laws.
Section 79.210 - Mayor — communications to board.
Section 79.220 - Mayor may remit fine, grant pardon.
Section 79.230 - Appointive officers.
Section 79.240 - Removal of officers.
Section 79.250 - Officers to be voters and residents — exceptions, appointed officers.
Section 79.260 - Officers' oath — bond.
Section 79.270 - Salaries fixed by ordinance.
Section 79.280 - Vacancies in certain offices, how filled.
Section 79.290 - Powers and duties of officers to be prescribed by ordinance.
Section 79.300 - Treasurer, duties — bond.
Section 79.310 - Collector to make annual report.
Section 79.320 - City clerk, election — duties.
Section 79.330 - Offices of marshal and collector may be consolidated.
Section 79.340 - Officers to report receipts and expenditures.
Section 79.350 - Mayor or board may inspect books and records of officers.
Section 79.360 - Misdemeanor in office, penalty.
Section 79.365 - Compensation of certain board and commission members, how fixed.
Section 79.370 - Board shall regulate sanitary conditions.
Section 79.383 - Abatement of nuisance by civil action, city may be awarded attorney's fees.
Section 79.390 - Powers — water supply, marketplaces, city hall, prison, parks.
Section 79.410 - Powers — regulations governing.
Section 79.430 - Board may provide public cemeteries and regulate same.
Section 79.440 - Cemetery lots, how sold.
Section 79.450 - Certain activities to be prohibited and suppressed.
Section 79.460 - Board may prohibit carrying concealed weapons.
Section 79.470 - Board to set penalties, limitation.
Section 79.480 - Notice of action shall be given — when — contents.
Section 79.490 - Fourth class city disincorporated, how — election, notice.
Section 79.500 - Contracts not affected by disincorporation.
Section 79.510 - County commission shall appoint trustee.
Section 79.520 - Trustee, duties.
Section 79.530 - Trustee may employ counsel — report to county commission.
Section 79.540 - Trustee to make final settlement with county commission.
Section 79.552 - Members, appointment, qualifications, terms — expenses (certain municipalities).
Section 79.555 - Powers of authority (certain municipalities).
Section 79.600 - Annexation of trash and recyclable material facilities, procedure (City of Eureka)