7-7-5: SALE OF BURIAL RIGHTS:
   A.   Procedure For Sale Of Burial Rights:
      1.   The City Recorder, and such other person as the City Council may designate, are hereby authorized to sell the Burial Right for use of Plots in a cemetery owned by the City for burial purposes only and to collect all sums arising from the sale. The City Recorder shall keep a complete record of all sales, which record shall describe the location of the plot purchased and the price paid therefore. The City Recorder or designated person shall deliver to each purchaser a certificate of burial rights for each Plot purchased, which certificate shall, among other things, describe the location of the plot and the purchase price.
      2.   A certificate of Burial Rights to burial shall be exempt from execution, taxation or assessment for care and maintenance from and after full payment of the purchase price.
      3.   “Perpetual Care” also known as prepaid continued maintenance shall be deemed to include the placing of topsoil upon the grave, seeding the grave with grass, and watering and cutting the grass. No other services are included.
      4.   No other improvements, changes or service, except perpetual care, shall be made on any plot without the certificate holder or his/her heirs first submitting to and receiving from the Cemetery Superintendent, written approval for such improvements, changes or services, which improvements, changes or services shall be subject to the rules and regulations promulgated by the City Council.
   B.   Restrictions Of Resale:
      1.   From and after January 1, 1978, the plots sold by the City shall not be further sold, transferred, conveyed or assigned to any person, except by the City. The City hereby agrees to buy back any plot which it may hereafter sell. The repurchase of such plots shall be for the original price paid by the purchaser, or the current selling price of the plot, whichever is less.
      2.   Whenever a certificate to burial rights or plot reverts to the City, as provided for in this subsection, or becomes vested in the City for any reason, before new certificates are issued, the original certificate shall be canceled or an assignment given, and the record shall be so changed.
      3.   The certificate to Burial Rights shall be issued and signed by the Cemetery Superintendent and shall be attested by the City Recorder. All Plots or parts of Plots, as provided in this subsection, together with all improvements, shall be exempt from execution and from taxation and assessment for care and maintenance charges from and after said payment.
   C.   Unused Plots: If a Plot or Plots remain unused after sixty (60) years from date of purchase, the City may initiate procedures in compliance with chapter 5, title 8 of the Utah Code to reclaim burial rights previously granted on a Plot. (1977 Code § 8-252; amd. Ord. 2021.24, 10-20-2021; Ord. 2023.14, 6-21-2023)