{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-10-8-62","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 10-8-62","heading":"Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation.","body":"The city legislative body may:\n(1) purchase, hold, and pay for lands within or without the corporate limits for the burial of the dead, and all necessary grounds for hospitals;\n(2) have and exercise police jurisdiction over those lands, and over any cemetery used by the inhabitants of the city;\n(3) survey, plat, map, fence, ornament, and otherwise improve, manage, and operate public burial and cemetery grounds;\n(4) convey cemetery lots owned by the city, and pass ordinances for the protection and governing of these grounds consistent with Title 8, Chapter 5, Rights and Title to Cemetery Lots;\n(5) contract for the care and improvement of cemeteries and cemetery lots, and for any compensation for the care and improvement;\n(6) receive deposits for the care of lots and invest the deposits by following the procedures and requirements of Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act; and\n(7) pay the cost of the care from any proceeds from the investment.","path":["Title 10 Utah Municipal Code","Chapter 10-8 Powers and Duties of Municipalities"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title10/Chapter8/10-8-S62.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"4bb45f3a594a3b0751bc23f892921639d8528acbfd17dd4136a5fde353cd8450","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-10-8-60","next":"us-ut/utah-code-10-8-63"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}