Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)

§ 8-82. Township cemeteries - Acquisition - Ownership - Tax levy.

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The township board of trustees of any organized township of Oklahoma, or board of county commissioners, be and are hereby empowered to purchase, receive by bequest, any cemetery within their respective townships, now or hereafter used for the purpose of burying the dead. Such cemetery so acquired, shall become the property of the township acquiring same, and the township board of such township or board of county commissioners, shall make a levy of not to exceed one (1) mill of the taxable property in their township, to be used for fencing of such cemetery, cutting of weeds, placing markers at the head of all graves not properly marked, (such markers to be of stone and cement), planting of shrubs and trees, purchasing of additional lands, tools, and in any other manner deemed necessary for the convenience of the public.

Laws 1917, c. 107, p. 165, § 1.

                    
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