§ 26-1. Management and supervision.

(a)

The responsibility for the management, operation, maintenance, and general supervision of the municipal cemeteries shall be vested in the city clerk/treasurer, subject to the authority and power of the municipal cemetery committee of the city council.

(b)

The city clerk/treasurer, in supervising the affairs of the municipal cemeteries, shall have the following duties:

(1)

To look after and take proper care of all municipal cemeteries and see that no lot in any cemetery is used or occupied in violation of this chapter or any rule or regulation promulgated by the municipal cemetery committee;

(2)

To keep full and detailed accounts of the receipts and expenditures on account of the municipal cemeteries; and

(3)

To see to the digging of graves and to the proper interring of the dead when called upon to do so.

(Code 1982, § 14-101)