San Bernardino Municipal Code Ch. 3.36 Cemetery Fund

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Cross-reference:

For provisions on the city cemetery, see Chapter 2.44

(A) There are created the Cemetery Endowment Care Fund and the Cemetery Capital Improvement Fund. All sums of money received from the sale of interment lots or plots, or from cemetery endowment care contracts, shall be deposited in the Cemetery Endowment Care Fund; provided that the sum of $35 received from the sale of, or an endowment care contract for, any such lot or plot shall be deposited in the Cemetery Capital Improvement Fund. Money in the Cemetery Capital Improvement Fund shall be expended only for cemetery capital improvements recommended by the Cemetery Commission and approved by the Mayor and City Council.

(B) Earnings from the Cemetery Endowment Care Fund shall be deposited and used exclusively for the care of the lots, exclusive of any driveways or pathways for which endowment care has been contracted.

(Ord. 858, passed 4-11-1922; Ord. 3641, passed 5-25-1977)

There is established a Cemetery Fund. All sums of money received by the Commission otherwise than as provided for in § 3.36.010 shall be paid into this fund, and out of this fund shall be paid all costs and expenses of maintaining the Pioneer Cemetery.

(Ord. 858, passed 4-11-1922)

All of the funds enumerated in this chapter shall be kept by the City Treasurer, and any and all payments made therefrom shall be made upon the order of the Mayor and City Council or the City Treasurer when so authorized. Said funds shall be kept on deposit in accordance with the laws pertaining to the depositing of other city public funds, and the Mayor and City Council or the City Treasurer may invest and reinvest said funds or such portion as they shall deem advisable in such investments as are approved under the laws pertaining to the investment of sinking or surplus funds of the city, including, but not limited to, investments in United States savings bonds.

(Ord. 858, passed 4-11-1922; Ord. 2508, passed 7-2-1963)