Section 1. May Own and Regulate: The City may acquire, own and hold such cemetery or public burial place or places, either within or without the limits of the corporation, as in the opinion of the City Council shall be necessary for the public welfare and suitable for the convenience of the inhabitants, and may prohibit interment of the dead within the City, or may limit such interments therein to such cemetery or burial place as the City Council may prescribe, and it may cause bodies buried within the City in violation of any rule or ordinance made in respect to such burial, to be taken up and buried elsewhere.
Section 2. Certain Statutes Adopted: All provisions of Chapter XV of Act 215 of the Public Acts of 1895 and Acts amendatory thereto relative to the incorporation of cities of the fourth class shall be considered as a part of this Charter, except that all powers therein granted to the Council in relation to cemeteries shall hereafter be exercised by the Council herein provided for.