35-20-204. Annual election -- time -- voting. (1) The annual election for trustees to supply the place of those whose term of office expires shall be held on the day mentioned in the certificate of incorporation and at such hour and place as the trustees direct. The trustees chosen at any election after the first shall hold their offices for 3 years and until others are chosen to succeed them.
(2) Such election shall be by ballot, and every person who is the proprietor of a lot in the cemetery of the association or, if there is more than one proprietor of any such lot, then such one of the proprietors as a majority of the joint proprietors shall designate to represent such lot or any person who is named as an associate in said certificate may vote at such election, and the persons receiving the highest number of votes given at such election shall be declared elected trustees.
History: En. Sec. 13, Ch. 18, L. 1905; re-en. Sec. 4249, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6481, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6481, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 9-113.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 35. Corporations, Partnerships, and Associations
Chapter 20. Cemetery Associations
Part 2. Operations Generally -- Trustees of Association
35-20-201. Local government approval prior to commencing operations
35-20-203. Vacancies in membership
35-20-204. Annual election -- time -- voting
35-20-205. Qualifications of trustees -- notice of election -- vacancies
35-20-206. Time for election if not held at time fixed in document of incorporation
35-20-207. Annual report of trustees -- duty of county attorney
35-20-208. Trustees to manage -- quorum -- officers -- bond of treasurer
35-20-209. Duties of secretary -- record of interments
35-20-210. Record of interments open to public -- summary to health officers
35-20-211. Penalty for failure to keep record
35-20-212. Authority to acquire land -- survey required
35-20-214. Use of proceeds from sale of lots
35-20-215. Use of gifted property -- gratuitous city water
35-20-216. Inalienability of lots
35-20-217. Exemption from taxation and execution -- no road construction through cemetery