(A) The Mayor of the city, with the advice and consent of the City Council, shall appoint a Board of three persons who shall be known as the Cemetery Board of Managers, who shall hold their office for a period of two years or until their successors are appointed and said Cemetery Board of Managers shall have the powers and duties given and enjoined on them by the statutes of the state, referred to in § 9-4-3.
(B) The Cemetery Board of Managers shall meet and elect one of their number President and another of same members Secretary and Treasurer of said Cemetery Board of Managers and it is made the duty of said Secretary and Treasurer to file with the City Clerk a bond with two sureties to be approved by the City Council in the sum of $5,000 the condition of said bond being that he or she will pay out money only on the order of the Cemetery Board of Managers and that on the expiration of his or her term of office, he or she will deliver all money and effects which may have come into his or her hands as Secretary and Treasurer of the Cemetery Board of Managers to his or her successor in office, after said successor in office shall have filed his or her bond under the provisions of this chapter and said bond has been approved.
(1974 Code, § 7-7-2)