All lots sold in the town cemetery shall be sold, subject to the following provisions:
(A) Payment in full required.
(1) Persons desiring to acquire lots in cemeteries or to have interments made upon lots already owned shall obtain from the Cemetery Sexton-Superintendent the correct description and cost of such lot or grave, and shall pay the entire amount of the cost of such lot or grave to the town. It shall be the duty of the Town Clerk-Treasurer or the Sexton-Superintendent to issue a receipt in triplicate for such payment. The original receipt shall be delivered to the purchaser of the lot, the duplicate of the receipt shall be given to the Sexton-Superintendent, and the triplicate of the receipt shall be retained by or delivered to the Clerk-Treasurer for the town.
(2) No lot or parcel of lot or any interest therein shall be sold to any person other than the town until the provisions of this section shall have been complied with, and no interment shall be made by any person until the lot wherein the interment is to be made shall have been paid for in full, in cash.
(3) The price of lots shall be prescribed by ordinance.
(B) Execution of deed.
(1) Any person holding a receipt for the payment of any lot in a town cemetery shall be entitled to a deed for the lot, and it shall be the duty of the Mayor to execute the deed and have it attested by the Town Clerk-Treasurer; provided, that all deeds, when executed, shall be construed as granting the right only to use the lot or lots for burial purposes for the interment of the grantee, or his or her relatives, descendants and such other persons as may be permitted by the grantee.
(2) Such burial right shall not be transferable by either voluntary or involuntary conveyance without the express consent of the Town Board of Trustees.
(C) Repurchase of lots by town.
(1) No owner of any lot or parcel of lot shall sell the whole or any part thereof, except that the town may repurchase the lot or parcel of lot wherever the Mayor shall, after investigation of a particular case, agree to repurchase a lot formerly sold.
(2) No money, except $1, shall be repaid to the original purchaser until the lot has been resold by the town, and the original purchaser shall receive, upon reconveyance by him or her of the lot or lots, only the amount of money which shall be received from such resale, less $1.
(3) No interment shall be allowed until full payment for the lot or lots or any part thereof has been made.
(Prior Code, § 7-3-7) (Ord. 170, passed 4-30-2001; Ord. 195, passed 2-10-2022) Penalty, see § 96.99