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The Council, by resolution, shall accept, receive, and expend all moneys and property donated or left to them by bequest for perpetual care, and that portion of interment space sales or permanent charges made against interment spaces which has been set aside in a perpetual care fund. The assets of the perpetual care fund shall be invested in accordance with State law. The Council, by resolution, shall provide for the payment of interest annually to the appropriate fund, or to the cemetery, or to the person in charge of the cemetery to be used in caring for or maintaining the individual property of the donor in the cemetery, or interment spaces which have been sold with provisions for perpetual care, all in accordance with the terms of the donation or bequest, or the terms of the sale or purchase of an interment space and Chapter 523I of the Code of Iowa.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 523I.503, 523I.507 & 523I.508)
Rules and regulations for the cemetery may be adopted, and may be amended from time to time, by resolution of the Council and may cover such things as the use, care, control, management, restrictions and protection of the cemetery as necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the cemetery. The rules shall specify the cemetery’s obligations in the event that interment spaces, memorials, or memorializations are damaged or defaced by acts of vandalism. Any veteran, as defined in Section 35.1 of the Code of Iowa, who is a landowner or who lives within the City shall be allowed to purchase an interment space and to be interred within the cemetery.
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 523I.304)
All foundations under memorials or markers shall extend not less than thirty (30) inches below the surface of the ground and shall extend a minimum of five (5) inches on all sides of the stone or marker supported thereby. Said foundations shall be constructed and placed under the Cemetery Sexton’s supervision.
A grave marker and/or memorial line is to be established which shall extend twenty-four (24) inches from the head of the burial space toward the foot of the burial space. It is the intent of this provision that all markers and/or memorials be placed in uniform rows for the purpose of order and efficient maintenance.
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