35-20-212. Authority to acquire land -- survey required. (1) Any association incorporated agreeably to the provisions of this chapter may take by purchase or gift and hold, within the county in which the certificate of their incorporation is recorded, land to be held and occupied exclusively for a cemetery for the burial of the dead and for purposes necessary or proper thereto.
(2) Such land or such portion thereof as may from time to time be required for that purpose shall be surveyed and divided into lots of such size as the trustees may direct with such avenues, alleys, and walks as the trustees deem proper. A map of such survey shall be filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk and recorder of the county in which the lands lie, without any fees therefor.
History: En. Sec. 11, Ch. 18, L. 1905; re-en. Sec. 4247, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6479, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6479, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 98, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 78, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 98, L. 1974; R.C.M. 1947, 9-111(part).
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