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Ohio Rev Code § 759.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.12 | City May Accept and Maintain Permanent Fund for Care of Lots in Cemeteries.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 sum of money so designated, the director shall issue therefor a written receipt and acknowledgment thereof, signed by him, binding the faith and credit of the city to forever hold such money as a permanent fund and to provide perpetual care of the lots therein named, for the use, income, or interest of such money. He shall enter on the minutes of his proceedings full detail of the obligation, and shall enter the receipt and income of the money and the expenditure thereof in detail on his books of accounts, keeping each case separately.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.13 | Price of Lots and Terms of Payment.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 city for the expense of lands purchased or appropriated for cemetery purposes, and to keep in order and embellish the grounds. Provision shall be made for the interment in such cemetery of persons buried at the expense of the city.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.14 | Sale of Lots - Laying Off and Embellishing of Grounds - Donations.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 particular parts or lots therein, as the donor directs, or as the director determines if no such direction is given. The director shall sell lots, receive payment therefor, direct the improvements, and make the expenditures under such rules and orders as he prescribes, and shall invest, manage, and control property received by donations and surplus funds in his hands from any source.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.15 | Funds of Cemeteries to Be Deposited - Investment - Payments.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 signed by its clerk.By resolution duly passed and entered on the minutes of its proceedings, the legislative authority shall pledge the faith and credit of the city to forever hold such money as a permanent fund, and pay to the director in semiannual payments as interest on the funds, a sum sufficient to provide perpetual care of the lots as agreed by the director. The legislative authority shall invest such funds and keep them invested in interest-bearing debts of the city, and if no such debts are owed by the city, then in safe interest-bearing bonds, or in interest-bearing certificates of deposit in financial institutions within this state authorized by law to accept deposits and subject to inspection by either the United States or this state. All such money and the income thereof shall be exempt from taxation, the same as other cemetery property.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.16 | Appointment of Clerk.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The director of public service shall appoint a clerk, and shall keep accurate minutes of all proceedings concerning cemeteries.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.17 | Annual and Quarterly Report to Legislative Authority.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.Such report shall contain a pertinent statement as to whether any funds on hand are invested, the character of the securities therefor, and such other matters as the director deems expedient or the legislative authority requires.The director shall report quarterly to the legislative authority all the moneys received and disbursed by him in the management of the cemetery.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.18 | Enlargement of Grounds.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.19 | Transfer of Village Cemetery - Powers and Duties of Township Trustees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 receive and accept transfer, and receive and accept from any other source or acquire in any other manner, any real property for the purpose of such cemetery, and may use and apply it for such purpose and enter into any contract relating thereto. After such transfer has been completed the board shall regulate the cemetery as provided in sections 517.01 to 517.32, inclusive, of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.20 | Board of Cemetery Trustees.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The mayor of a village owning a public burial ground or cemetery may appoint a board to be known as the board of cemetery trustees. Such board shall consist of three members, whose term of office shall be three years, but the term of office of the members first appointed shall extend until the first municipal election thereafter, and until the officers chosen at such election are qualified and placed in office. Thereafter the mayor shall appoint a board of three trustees as follows: One for a term of six years, one for a term of four years, and one for a term of two years. Biennially thereafter, after each municipal election has been held and the newly elected officers have been qualified and placed in office, the mayor shall at the first meeting of the legislative authority of such village appoint one member to the board whose term of office shall be for six years.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.21 | Vacancies.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 the mayor and the legislative authority.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.22 | Removals.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.23 | Organization of Board of Trustees for Village Cemeteries.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.25 | Villages May Tax for Funeral Coach or Vault on Vote of Electors.

Effective: July 2, 2010|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 48 - 128th General Assembly|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 submitted to the electors of the village at a general election. Twenty days' notice of such election shall be given by posting in at least three public places in the village. The notice shall state specifically the amount to be raised, and for what purpose. If a majority of all the votes cast at the election is in favor of either or both propositions, they shall be considered adopted and the tax authorized. The funeral coach and vault shall be under the control of the board of cemetery trustees of the village where there is such board, otherwise under the control of the legislative authority or person appointed by it.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.26 | Form of Ballot.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.27 | Union of Municipal Corporations and Townships for Cemetery Purposes.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.28 | Appropriation of Land for Cemetery Purposes.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 corporation or township uniting with it, and the proceedings therefor shall be the same as provided in section 719.01 to 719.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, where the appropriation is to be made for the use of the corporation alone.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.29 | Titles Vested.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 expense of the municipal corporation or township.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.30 | Apportionment of Expense.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 percentage of taxation for all such cemetery purposes shall be the same in the municipal corporations and townships, but moneys in the hands of the board of cemetery trustees, derived from any source, not needed to keep in order or embellish the grounds, by resolution of the legislative authorities of the municipal corporations and the boards of township trustees, may be applied to the expenses of purchase, or of appropriation and damages awarded, or both, in securing additional lands for the cemetery.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.31 | Control and Management - Compensation.

Effective: September 9, 1988|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 704 - 117th General Assembly|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 compensation of the members thereof, and such compensation shall be in accordance with the time actually consumed by such members in the discharge of their official duties, but such compensation shall not exceed fifteen dollars for each meeting nor exceed one hundred eighty dollars per year. Such compensation shall be in addition to compensation received as a member of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or of the board of township trustees.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.32 | Power to Enforce Ordinances.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 ordinances, rules, and regulations, relating to the cemetery. The mayor and police officers of the municipal corporation shall have complete jurisdiction and authority to enforce all ordinances, rules, and regulations, as if the cemetery grounds were located within or owned exclusively by such municipal corporation.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.33 | Discrimination Forbidden.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 it were owned and governed in the interests of the municipal corporation or township alone.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.34 | Joint Meeting.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 purpose of determining the rate of tax to be levied upon the taxable property of the municipal corporation and the township for such purposes. Upon the passage of a joint resolution by a majority of the members of the legislative authority and the board of township trustees, fixing the rate of taxation, the clerk of the municipal corporation shall certify such rate to the county auditor for assessment and collection. If there is more than one municipal corporation or township united for such purposes, the legislative authorities and boards shall become such joint body with the same powers as if there has been one municipal corporation and one township, and the clerk of the municipal corporation containing the greatest number of inhabitants shall certify to the auditor as provided by this section, the rate of taxation.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.341 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.341 | Union Cemetery District.

Effective: October 20, 1987|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 140 - 117th General Assembly|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 purpose of levying taxes within the territory of the district for the establishment, operation, and maintenance of the cemetery. The legislative authority and board, acting jointly, shall constitute the taxing authority of the union cemetery district. Notwithstanding sections 759.37, 5705.19, and 5705.191 of the Revised Code, in order to adopt a resolution to levy a tax in excess of the ten-mill limitation within the district, a majority of the members of each legislative authority and board of township trustees constituting the taxing authority must vote in favor of the resolution. In all other matters, when the legislative authority and board are acting jointly as the taxing authority of the union cemetery district, each member of the legislative authority and board shall have one vote as described in section 759.37 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.35 | Joint Meetings to Make Rules.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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, and making such orders as are found necessary for the application of moneys arising from the sale of lots, taxes, or otherwise.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.37 | Vote and Record of Joint Meetings.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 759.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 7 | Municipal Corporations|Chapter 759 | Cemeteries|Section 759.38 | Adjoining Townships Admitted to Participation.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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, but the title and control of such cemetery shall continue vested in the municipal corporation.