Saginaw Michigan Charter Chapter 13

Cemetery and Park Lands

            Section 83. All cemeteries now owned or hereafter acquired by the city, either within or without its corporate limits, shall be forever dedicated solely to cemetery purposes, and all grants or dedications heretofore made to or for cemeteries shall continue without change. No park or any part thereof now owned or hereafter acquired by the city, either within or without its corporate limits, shall be sold by the city unless the sale shall be first approved by three-fifths of the city electors voting thereon at any general or special election.

                                                                        Section 83 Amended (Amendment No. 5)

                                                                        Effective December 29, 1953

Trusts

            Section 84. All trusts heretofore established for cemetery, park or other purposes shall be used and continued in accordance with the terms of the trusts. The city may, in its discretion, receive and hold any property in trust for cemetery, park or other public purposes and shall apply the same to the execution of such trusts and for no other purposes whatsoever.

Cemetery Trust Funds

            Section 85. The amount now standing to the credit of the Forest Lawn Cemetery Trust Fund, Oakwood Cemetery Trust Fund an Brady Hill Cemetery Trust Fund, so-called, together with twenty-five percent (25%) of all moneys which shall from time to time be received from the sale of lots and single graves in said cemeteries shall constitute trust funds, the income of which shall be used annually as occasion may require for the general care and maintenance of said cemeteries. Said trust funds shall never, under any pretext or evasion, be diverted from their declared purposes.

                                                                        Section 85 amended (Amendment No. 17)

                                                                        Effective December 2, 1988

Platting and Sale

            Section 86. The council shall cause cemeteries to be laid out into lots, avenues and walks, the plats thereto to be recorded in the office of the Controller. The Council shall fix the price of such lots, establish interment permit fees, and regulate the manner of conveyance and recording of such lots.

                                                                        Section 86 amended (Amendment No. 18)

                                                                        Effective December 2, 1988

Single and Pauper Graves

            Section 87 - Repealed Effective December 2, 1988 (Amendment No. 19)

Protection, Establishment, Maintenance

            Section 88. The council shall have power to enact all ordinances deemed necessary for the establishment, maintenance and protection of all cemeteries and parks (together with the improvements thereon and appurtenances thereto) now owned or hereafter acquired by the city, either within or without its corporate limits and like power with reference to all cemeteries within the city belonging to, or under the control of any church, religious society, corporation, company or association.