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...In the bylaws and regulations provided for by section 759.11 of the Revised Code, the director of public service shall declare the amount of money he will accept by agreement, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise and hold as a permanent fund of the cemetery. He shall pledge the faith and credit of the city for the perpetual care of the lots designated, using only the interest or income of the money. On receipt of the ...

...The director of public service shall determine the size and price of cemetery lots, the terms of payment therefor, and shall give to each purchaser a receipt, showing the amount paid and a pertinent description of the lots sold. Upon producing such receipt to the proper officer, such purchaser shall be entitled to a deed for the lots described therein. No more shall be charged for lots than is necessary to reimburse...

...The director of public service shall have entire charge and control of receipts from the sale of cemetery lots, and of laying off and embellishing the grounds. He may receive donations by bequest, devise, deed of gift, or otherwise, or money or other property, the principal or interest of which is to be used for the enlargement, improvement, embellishment, or care of the cemetery grounds generally, or for any particu...

...The director of public service shall turn over to the legislative authority of the city property on hand under his control or held by him as a permanent fund, for cemetery purposes, or such money as may thereafter come to him for such purposes, and shall render a full statement thereof, by whom, when, and for what purpose paid. The legislative authority shall acknowledge receipt thereof to the director in writing si...

...The director of public service shall appoint a clerk, and shall keep accurate minutes of all proceedings concerning cemeteries.

...On the first Monday of January each year, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, the director of public service shall report in writing to the legislative authority of the city the number of cemetery lots sold, to whom sold, and the amount received therefor, during the year preceding, and a detailed statement of the expenditures during the same period, showing the time and purpose of each payment and to whom made. ...

...When, in his judgment , an enlargement of any burial or cemetery grounds becomes necessary, or grounds for additional cemeteries should be provided, the director of public service shall report such fact to the legislative authority of the city, and recommend such action as he deems most expedient.

...In all cases in which the legislative authority of a village which has title to a cemetery fails to take proper care thereof, and the township in which the village is located desires to control such cemetery, the village may, by ordinance, transfer any real property acquired for cemetery purpose to the board of township trustees, upon such terms as are agreed to between the village and the board. The board may recei...

...In case of vacancy in the board of cemetery trustees in any village appointed as provided in section 759.20 of the Revised Code by reason of death, disability, or removal from office of a member, the mayor shall appoint a member to fill such vacancy. An appointment to fill a vacancy shall be made at the first meeting of the legislative authority of the village after such vacancy has been brought to the attention of t...

...The mayor of a village in which there is a board of cemetery trustees appointed under section 759.20 of the Revised Code may remove from office any member of such board for misconduct, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.

...The board of cemetery trustees shall have the powers and perform the duties prescribed by sections 759.09 to 759.18, inclusive, of the Revised Code, for the director of public service in cities.

...The legislative authority of a village may levy a tax for the purchase of a funeral coach or the construction of a vault for the dead, for the use of the village. Such resolution shall be filed with the board of elections not later than four p.m. of the ninetieth day before the day of the election. The question of levying such tax, for either or both purposes, and the amount asked therefor, shall be separately ...

...The electors of a village voting at an election as provided by section 759.25 of the Revised Code shall have placed on their ballots the words, "Tax for Funeral Coach--Yes," or "Tax for Funeral Coach--No," and upon the same ballot, "Tax for Vault--Yes," or "Tax for Vault--No," and may vote for one proposition and against the other, or for or against both.

...The rights and titles of lot owners, purchased prior to the sale and conveyance under section 759.42 of the Revised Code, shall not be questioned, and such lot owners shall continue to hold and occupy their lots, under such rules and regulations as are adopted for the government and regulation of the cemetery by the authorities making the purchase.

...The officers having control and management of a public cemetery, acting under sections 759.02 to 759.48, inclusive, of the Revised Code, may acquire property necessary, in the judgment of a majority of them, for a better approach thereto. No lot or parcel of land or part thereof upon which a dwelling house is situated shall be so appropriated. Such property may be acquired by gift, purchase, appropriation, or by exch...

...When the officers having control or management of a public cemetery deem it necessary to appropriate property for a new and better approach to the cemetery, and have passed a resolution declaring the necessity thereof and their intention to make such appropriation, they shall make application to the court of common pleas or to a judge thereof in vacation, or to the probate court of the county in which the property or...

...(A) Subject to division (B) of this section, re-interment or disinterment of the product of a fetal death buried in accordance with division (C)(2) of section 759.49 of the Revised Code is not subject to section 517.24 of the Revised Code if one or both surviving parents provide written consent for the re-interment or disinterment to the public burial ground or cemetery and comply with any ordinances passed und...

...The proceeds of each issue of revenue bonds issued pursuant to sections 761.01 to 761.14, inclusive, of the Revised Code, shall be used for the purchase or construction of a project and the necessary expense of preparing, printing, and selling said bonds, legal services, and transfer expense, or to advance the payment of interest on such bonds during the first three years following the date of the bonds, but subject ...