(A) General. The term PERPETUAL CARE shall be construed to mean the obligation which the city assumes to each year expend the net annual income of the perpetual care endowment set aside for the lot in furnishing such care as mowing and maintaining grass, raking and cleaning the lot and adjacent alleys, and filling of sunken graves. Where the income is sufficient it may be used in the perpetual care of avenues, alleys, fences, buildings and grounds in general. Expenditures shall be made at the discretion and under the direction of the Council and the city shall not be bound to make any separate investment of the sum of money set aside as perpetual care, but the same shall be added to the Perpetual Care Fund of the city and the proceeds therefrom used by the city in the manner heretofore provided.
(2011 Code, § 6.0107)
(B) Cemetery lots without perpetual care. Owners of lots or other interested persons may secure perpetual care on lots or parts of lots in the older portions of the cemetery not having perpetual care by the payment to the city of the perpetual care charges at the rates specified in the code.
(2011 Code, § 6.0109) (Ord. 2300, passed 5-15-2017; Ord. 2333, passed 5-21-2018)