§ 145.190. Recourse of City When Interment Made Prior To Issue of Certificate For Lot.


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  • If and when the burial of any deceased person is made in the City cemetery before a certificate for the lot or place in which such burial is made has been procured from the City for that purpose, then, unless relatives or friends of such deceased person shall purchase a lot in the cemetery, the Cemetery Superintendent may, in his/her discretion, take up, remove and reinter such deceased person in some lot in Potter's Field or free part of the cemetery, provided, that it shall be unlawful to take up or remove any deceased person who may have died of smallpox or other infectious or contagious disease.
CC 1989 §11-19