HomeMy WebLinkAbout0136_0008AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE TIS, PLACE AND MANNER OF THE
BURIAL OF THE DEAD IR THE CITY OF GBORGHTOWN9 TEXAS AND PROVIDING
PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SUCH REGULATIONS.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of Georgetown,
Texas:
Section 1, within the corporate limits of this City there
shall be only two places set apart used for the burial of the
bodies of deceased persons, in which such dead body may be interred
and buried, according to wnstever manner, and wast reiigious rites
go shall seen best according to the religious beliefs or tenets of
the person or persons having in charge the funeral services of such
dead person.
Section 2. The two places mentioned in Section 1. hereof ares
8irets The I.0.0.7. Cemetery or graveyard, located in the Best -
ern portion of the City according to its metes, bounds, enclosures
and area as the same is and exists at this times Farah 12thq 1906,
Seconds The Southern Presbyterian Church demetery or-graveyardq
located in the Southern part of the City# according to its mates,
bounds, enclosures and area as it now exists, said last mentioned
cemetery being designated on the map of this City as Out Lot No. 3,
Division B.
Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons# Pira,
or corporation, having in charge the cadaver or dead body of any
person, to reep the same above groundp or unburied or undisposed
of within the limits of this City for a longer period than Forty-
eight hours, unless such body has been properly embalmed; and if
said person, personsy firm or corporation so in charge of such
dead body or cadaver intends to bury the same within the limits
of this City it shall become his or their duty before the expir-
ation of the time provided herein for the burial of the deadp to
bury said body in a decent manner and at the customary depth in
so far as it is practicable, within the metes and bounds of one
of the places hereinbefore designated and set apart for the burial
of the dead, and in no other place within the corporate limits
of this City, unless having first obtained.the consent of the
City Council.
Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons,
firm,assoeiation of persons or eorporationt who now, or may
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