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 Milledgeville
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 26. CEMETERIES
 Article I. IN GENERAL

  § 26-8. Sale of lots—Cost and deeds.  

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  • (a)

    All grave spaces or lots in city designated cemeteries shall be sold to any and all persons regardless of race, creed, color, nationality or religious belief.

    (b)

    Applications for the purchase of lots or grave space in such cemeteries shall be made to the building department, and deeds to the lots shall be executed by the mayor on behalf of the city and attested by the clerk upon the payment of the purchase price of the grave space, spaces or lot bought. No deed shall be made or delivered until the purchase price shall have been paid in full.

    (c)

    All lots in such cemeteries shall have a purchase price of $200.00 per grave space and shall be fixed and determined by ordinance of the council and kept on file in the building department.

    (d)

    No interment shall be permitted on a cemetery lot or portion thereon prior to said cemetery lot being paid for in full along with all rates and charges outstanding.

    (e)

    Reserved.

    (f)

    The selling of all lots in the cemeteries shall be done by a duly authorized agent of the city, who shall make out and deliver to the purchaser, upon the receipt of payment in full, a deed which shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the clerk and have affixed thereto the seal of the city and shall contain and describe the lot conveyed.

    (g)

    It shall be the duty of the authorized agent of the city to keep a well-bound book in which shall be recorded and indexed within 30 days, at least but not limited to, the cemetery, cemetery lot, and purchaser.

    (h)

    No cemetery lot shall be reserved prior to full payment of the fee.

    (i)

    The building department shall keep and complete records of the ownership of all lots in the cemeteries; of the burial capacity of each lot; sold and unsold; of the location of each grave.

    (j)

    Lots shall be available as follows:

    (1)

    Memory Hill Cemetery, no lots available.

    (2)

    Westview Cemetery, no lots available.

    (3)

    Riversideview Cemetery, no lots available.

    (4)

    Bone Cemetery, no lots available.

(Ord. No. O-1102-002, 4-12-2011; Ord. No. O-1203-005, 3-27-2012)