Utah Code § 10-8-62

Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation
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The city legislative body may:
(1) purchase, hold, and pay for lands within or without the corporate limits for the burial of the
dead, and all necessary grounds for hospitals;
(2) have and exercise police jurisdiction over those lands, and over any cemetery used by the
inhabitants of the city;
(3) survey, plat, map, fence, ornament, and otherwise improve, manage, and operate public burial
and cemetery grounds;
(4) convey cemetery lots owned by the city, and pass ordinances for the protection and governing
of these grounds consistent with Title 8, Chapter 5, Rights and Title to Cemetery Lots;
(5) contract for the care and improvement of cemeteries and cemetery lots, and for any
compensation for the care and improvement;
(6) receive deposits for the care of lots and invest the deposits by following the procedures and
requirements of Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act; and
(7) pay the cost of the care from any proceeds from the investment.

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