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Session Laws, 1953
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1240 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 638

in the Town, and shall have the following additional power,
to wit:

(1) To regulate or prohibit the interment of bodies and
to authorize the removal of bodies now or hereafter buried.

(2) To provide schedules of rates for the annual and
perpetual upkeep and care of the burial lots in said
cemetery.

(3) To establish a schedule of rates for the opening and
closing of graves in any lots of said cemetery.

(4) To provide for the collection of charges for upkeep
and care by prohibiting the opening of graves until any
and all delinquent charges have been paid in full.

(5) To acquire by purchase, lease, gift, devise or by con-
demnation in the manner prescribed in Article S3 A of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, such additional land as the
Town Commissioners may deem necessary to add to the
said Chesterfield Cemetery for the interment of bodies.

(6) To sell burial lots or graves for the sole purpose of
sepulture on such terms and conditions as the Town Com-
missioners may from time to time prescribe.

115. (Revenues) The yearly revenue and receipts of
the Chesterfield Cemetery shall be kept separate and apart
from the other funds of said Town, and the same shall be
expended in the following order:

(1) To pay the yearly operating expenses of the
Cemetery.

(2) To pay the interest on and the redemption of all
bonds falling due in such year, which from time to time
have been or will be issued, to improve, sustain or enlarge
said cemetery.

(3) To pay for all capital improvements to said ceme-
tery incurred during such year.

(4) To retain any balance for the enlargement, improve-
ment or betterment of said cemetery.

116. (Perpetual Care Funds) All funds received in
the nature of perpetual care for lots in said cemetery shall
be invested in Bonds of the United States, the State of
Maryland or any of its political sub-divisions, and the
yearly interest from the same only shall be expended for
the operation of said cemetery.



 

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