(a) Fund Established; Deposits. There is hereby established a Perpetual Care Trust Fund in which shall be deposited all trust funds previously established for the care of cemeteries and that portion of the sale price set aside for perpetual care of lots or graves hereafter sold, together with any other gifts, grants, devises or bequests made for the purpose of assisting in the maintenance of cemeteries.
(b) Treasurer's Duties. It shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to keep an accurate record of the Perpetual Care Trust Fund account, including investments, and to see that the principal portion thereof is properly invested in accordance with resolutions of Council, and to advise Council when funds are available for investment in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more.
(c) Council's Duties. It shall be the duty of Council, when funds are available for investment, to direct, by resolution, all purchases of securities for the Perpetual Care Trust Fund.
(d) Income. All income from investments held in the Perpetual Care Trust Fund shall be deposited to the Cemetery Maintenance Fund for use in providing perpetual care, as required herein.
(e) Sales Without Perpetual Care Prohibited. The rates established from time to time by Council for lots or fractions thereof shall include perpetual care. No sales or transfers shall be made hereafter without providing for perpetual care.
(f) Care Provided. The essential perpetual care that the City agrees to give shall consist of mowing of all lots and graves at reasonable intervals, resodding, seeding and filling in sunken graves, sodding the surface of graves to the lot level, removing dead flowers and trimming trees and shrubbery when necessary, raking and cleaning lots and straightening tilting stones or markers, but shall not include watering or repair or replacement of markers or memorial structures of any kind.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)