(A) In case of the death or resignation or removal permanently from the city of any one or more of the members of said Board of Cemetery Commissioners before his, her or their term of office expires, at the regular meeting of the City Council then next following, the Mayor shall nominate a person who shall be a resident of the city to fill such vacancy and when confirmed by the Council, the person so nominated shall become a member of said Board for the unexpired term of the member whom he or she succeeds.
(B) It shall be the duty of said Cemetery Commissioners to take sole charge of the lots conveyed to the city for the purpose of a cemetery by the Lake Forest Cemetery Association and trustees of the Lake Forest Association, by deed dated July 1, 1863, recorded in Book 35, Page 201 of Lake County Records, in accordance with the conditions and covenants of said conveyance, and the orders of the City Council.
(C) The Commissioners shall appoint one of their number to serve as Treasurer, and he or she shall file such bond, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his or her duties, as may be required by the Council.
(D) The Treasurer shall deposit all money with a regularly designated city depository within 24 hours of the time such money comes into his or her hands, and shall deposit all securities for safekeeping with such a depository upon terms to be approved by the City Council within 24 hours of the time such securities come into his or her hands.
(E) The Commissioners shall certify to the City Council their desire to have any plat of the cemetery, heretofore recorded, vacated, when the city shall at once proceed to have it done when it does not conflict with the rights of persons who have already purchased lots.
(F) (1) The Commissioners shall have power to employ a competent person to survey the premises, and shall cause the whole or so much thereof as they may deem expedient to be laid off into lots suitable for the burial of the dead, and shall present to the City Council a plat showing the plan and arrangement of such lots; which plat, when approved by the Council, shall be acknowledged by the Mayor and the City Clerk in behalf of the city, before any officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall be recorded in the Recorder’s office of the county, and such record shall have all the force and effect that is by law given to any recorded city plat.
(2) Such plat shall also be recorded by the City Clerk, in the manner required by § 1, Article VIII of the City Charter.
(Prior Code, § 10-9) (Ord. 93-18, passed 4-5-1993; Ord. 1663, passed 12-13-1986; Ord. 2019-35, passed 8-5-2019)