35-20-215. Use of gifted property -- gratuitous city water. (1) Any association incorporated agreeably to the provisions of this chapter may also take by gift and hold personal property and may sell the same and apply the proceeds thereof to the care, maintenance, and embellishment of said cemetery, but for no other purpose. All real and personal estate which shall have been given or granted to any such association for the maintenance of any monument, the keeping in good order, or the embellishment of any lot or ground situated within the inclosure of such an association shall remain forever to the uses for which the same shall have been given or granted, according to the true intent of the grantor.
(2) Any city or town in or near which a cemetery is maintained under the provisions of this chapter may furnish water to be used within such cemetery and for its maintenance and beautification free of charge to such cemetery association if such city or town shall so elect.
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