Any incorporated city in this State having a population of twenty thousand inhabitants or above and owning a cemetery or burying ground may create by ordinance a cemetery commission, to be composed of three discreet persons, residents of such city, whose terms of office shall be six years from the date of their respective appointments, except that at the creation of such commission one shall be appointed for two years, one for four and the other for six.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 47-1431; 1952 Code Section 47-1431; 1942 Code Section 7536; 1935 (39) 97.
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 5 - Municipal Corporations
Chapter 39 - Cemeteries And Cemetery Commissions
Section 5-39-110. Appointment and term.
Section 5-39-120. Removal; vacancies.
Section 5-39-130. Duties and powers.
Section 5-39-210. Appointment and term.
Section 5-39-220. Bond and compensation.
Section 5-39-240. Receipt of gifts, devises, bequests and the like for care of graves.
Section 5-39-250. Transfer of funds to commission.
Section 5-39-260. Investments.
Section 5-39-270. Disbursements and reports.
Section 5-39-280. Liability of cities.
Section 5-39-410. Acceptance of trust for maintenance of burial lots, graves, tombs and the like.
Section 5-39-420. Transfer of funds to city.
Section 5-39-430. Ordinance shall provide terms of acceptance.