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...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 legislative authorities of two or more municipal corporations, or of one or more municipal corporations and the boards of township trustees of one or more townships, when conveniently located for that purpose, may unite in the establishment and management of a cemetery, by the purchase or appropriation of land therefor not exceeding one hundred acres, to be paid for as provided by section 759.30 of the Revised Co...

...When an appropriation of land for cemetery purposes mentioned in section 759.27 of the Revised Code becomes necessary, it shall be made by the municipal corporation, or if there is more than one such municipal corporation, then by the one having the largest number of inhabitants at the last federal census. Such municipal corporation, in making the appropriation, shall act for itself and any other municipal corporatio...

...The title to the grounds of the cemetery provided for in section 759.27 of the Revised Code, whether by purchase or otherwise, shall vest in and be held by the municipal corporation making the appropriation, in trust for the use of its inhabitants and the inhabitants of the other municipal corporations or townships in common. Provisions shall be made for the interment in such cemetery of all persons buried at the exp...

...The expense of the purchase, or of the proceedings in case of appropriation and the damages awarded, or both, for land for cemetery purposes under section 759.27 of the Revised Code, shall be borne by the municipal corporations and townships in proportion to the property of each on the duplicate for taxation. The amount of bonds issued by each for such cemetery purposes shall be in the same proportion, and the percen...

...A cemetery owned in common as provided by section 759.27 of the Revised Code, shall be under the control and management of the board of township trustees and the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations, and their authority over it and duties in relation thereto shall be the same as where the cemetery is the exclusive property of a single municipal corporation. A board of union cemetery trustees may fix...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation owning a cemetery in common with any other municipal corporation or township may pass and enforce all ordinances necessary to carry into effect sections 759.27 to 759.44, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and such as are deemed necessary for the preservation and regulation of the cemetery and the protection thereof, and for the punishment of any person violating the ...

...No distinction or discrimination of any kind shall be made by the board of cemetery trustees of a cemetery owned in common as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code in favor of one municipal corporation against another, or in favor of a municipal corporation against a township, or in favor of a township against a municipal corporation, but the affairs of the cemetery shall in all respects be managed as though...

...In case of a union for cemetery purposes between a municipal corporation and a township as provided by section 759.27 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation and the board of township trustees shall have a joint meeting at the council-chamber of the municipal corporation, on the day of the first regular meeting of the legislative authority in the month of May each year, for the pur...

...The legislative authority of each municipal corporation and the board of township trustees of each township that has united in the establishment and management of a cemetery under section 759.27 of the Revised Code, by an affirmative vote of a majority of each legislative authority and board, may form a union cemetery district comprised of all of the territory within the united municipal corporation and township for ...

...The boards of township trustees of townships or the legislative authorities of municipal corporations which have a cemetery owned in common as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code may at any time call a joint meeting of such legislative authorities and boards on a reasonable notice given by either, for the purpose of making joint rules and regulations for the government of the cemetery, or changing them, an...

...At any joint meeting provided for by section 759.35 of the Revised Code, or at the joint meeting provided for by section 759.34 of the Revised Code, by a majority vote of all present counting members of the legislative authorities of municipal corporations and of boards of township trustees, the meeting may elect a board of cemetery trustees consisting of three members, of which one or more must be a member of each o...

...In joint meetings mentioned in sections 759.34 and 759.35 of the Revised Code, each member of the legislative authorities of municipal corporations and each member of the boards of township trustees shall have one vote in determining all questions. The proceedings of joint meetings shall be recorded by the clerk of the municipal corporation having the greatest number of inhabitants.

...A township adjoining one in which a union cemetery is established as provided in section 759.27 of the Revised Code, may, by the consent of the board of township trustees of the latter township and of the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations, be admitted to an equal participation with the inhabitants thereof in the rights and privileges in the cemetery, upon such terms as are mutually agreed upon, bu...

...A municipal corporation or township united with other municipal corporations or townships in the establishment or control of a union cemetery, or both, may, by a resolution of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or of the board of township trustees and with the consent of the legislative authorities of the remaining municipal corporations and the boards of the remaining townships, withdraw from the...

...In the establishment of a union cemetery, a municipal corporation and a township may make use of a public burial ground or cemetery held by the municipal corporation or township, and may make use of any land acquired by dedication, gift, or devise for burial purposes.

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation and the board of township trustees of a township, may purchase, for cemetery purposes, from an incorporated cemetery association the lands, lots, and improvements of such association remaining unsold and take a conveyance thereof. Such purchase money shall be applied to the payment of the legal debts of the association, and to the embellishment and preservation of ...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation and the board of township trustees may transfer to an incorporated cemetery association the lands, lots, and improvements of a cemetery owned and controlled by the municipal corporation or township for cemetery purposes. The association shall assume all legal debts on the cemeteries so transferred.

...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 clerk of the municipal corporation shall record in a book provided for that purpose, a plat of all grounds for cemetery purposes laid out into avenues, walks, paths, and lots, and he shall execute to the purchasers of lots such conveyances as are necessary to carry into effect the contracts of sale. The conveyance shall, at the expense of the person receiving it, be recorded by the clerk in a book kept for that p...

...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...

...The title to property acquired under section 759.45 of the Revised Code shall vest in the township or municipal corporation owning the cemetery. The officers making such exchange shall execute, in the name of the township or municipal corporation, conveyances of the property so exchanged. No property shall be acquired by purchase or appropriation unless the money necessary to pay for it is in the cemetery fund. Land...

...Land belonging to a public cemetery and used for an approach thereto, and which is, in the judgment of a majority of the officers having control or management thereof, unnecessary for cemetery purposes, may be sold by them at public sale to the highest bidder after advertisement as provided in section 7.16 of the Revised Code or once a week for five consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within...