MAY BUY AND KEEP UP PART OF CEMETERY AS SOLDIERS' REST.

375.36 MAY BUY AND KEEP UP PART OF CEMETERY AS SOLDIERS' REST. § Subdivision 1. County powers; soldiers' rest. A county board may purchase a plot of ground in any duly organized cemetery lying, in whole or part, in the county, or in a contiguous county, to be designated and used exclusively as a soldiers' rest. The county may appropriate money for its cost, embellishment, and upkeep, and for the opening and the closing of graves in it. § Subd. 2.Veteran may run. The board may use the portion of the appropriation as it deems necessary for compensation and expenses of an agent, who shall be a veteran, to care for the burial ground and to issue permits for burial in it. § Subd. 3.Except Ramsey County. This section does not apply to Ramsey County. History: (763) 1917 c 60 s 1; 1923 c 335 s 1; 1937 c 178 s 1; 1945 c 257 s 1; 1974 c 435 art 7 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2; 2006 c 176 s 1