Title 35 — Title 35 — Public Health And Safety

Survey and platting of cemetery grounds. Any person, firm, corporation or municipality desiring to maintain a cemetery or to sell lots or parcels of land for cemetery or burial purposes shall cause such land, or such portion thereof as may, from time to time be or become necessar…

Conveyance of cemetery lots. Cemetery lots or blocks may be conveyed by certificates signed by the owner thereof, with the corporate or municipal seal attached and attested by the secretary or clerk in appropriate cases, specifying that the person to whom the same is issued is th…

Use of income derived from sale of lots; perpetual care fund; funds to be as a trust; not liable to attachment or garnishment. The proceeds arising from the sale of lots in any cemetery by any person, firm, corporation or municipality, and all other income and revenue thereof, sh…

Exemption from taxation. All property of any person, firm, corporation or municipality so platted and dedicated for cemetery purposes, shall be exempt from taxation, assessment, lien, attachment, and from levy and sale upon execution, except for the purchase price thereof.

Prohibited acts; penalty for violation. Any person, firm, or the managing officer or officers of any corporation or municipality that sells, contracts for sale, or in any other manner disposes of any lot, block or parcel of land for interment or burial of deceased persons therein…

cemeteries. Power of cities and towns with respect to In addition to the powers conferred upon them by law, each incorporated city or town in the state of Wyoming shall have power and authority to purchase, hold, and pay for lands, not exceeding eighty (80) acres in one (1) body,…

Purchase of grounds outside corporate limits. For the purpose of carrying out any of the powers conferred by this act, any such city or town may go beyond its corporate limits and purchase, or otherwise acquire, real property.

Bond issue; purposes for which issue authorized; denominations, form, interest and issuance. An incorporated city or town in the state of Wyoming is authorized, for the purpose of providing funds for purchasing and improving lands for cemetery purposes, to borrow money and to iss…

Bond issue; submission of issue to voters. No bonds shall be issued for the purpose provided by this article until the proposition to issue the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the city or town, and by them approved. The proposition shall be s…

Bond issue; cemetery bond tax. There shall be annually levied and collected on all taxable property, real, personal, and mixed, within such city or town, a sufficient tax to pay the interest on said bonds as the same may become due, and to redeem such bonds as provided in this ar…

Bond issue; bond register. The city or town treasurer shall keep a book in which shall be registered all such bonds, showing the number of the bond, the date of issue, to whom issued, the amount, the date of redemption, and payment of interest; which book shall be open to all per…

Bond issue; redemption of bonds. Any city or town, issuing bonds for the purpose provided in this act, shall each year after the tenth year after the issue of said bonds, redeem at least one-twentieth of the said bonds in the order of their issue.

Bond issue; duty of treasurer upon payment. It shall be the duty of the city or town treasurer, as rapidly as any coupons of said bonds are paid, to cause the word "paid" to be cut in the same, and as rapidly as said bonds are paid to cause the word "paid" to be cut in the body o…

Bond issue; custodian of moneys collected. The city or town treasurer shall be custodian of all moneys arising from the sale of bonds issued in pursuance of the authority given by this chapter, and he shall give additional bond, or bonds, for the safekeeping and distributing of a…

Ordinances, rules and regulations. Any such city or town is hereby authorized and empowered to enact all ordinances necessary to the complete exercise of all the powers in this act granted, and to carry out the same, and is authorized to make all ordinances, rules, and regulation…

Application. This act shall apply to all cities and towns in the state of Wyoming whether incorporated by special charter or under general laws, and the taxes herein provided for, shall be in addition to all other taxes provided or authorized by law.

Authority to declare abandoned unoccupied lots; procedure; resale. Any city, town or special cemetery district may declare abandoned the ownership of any unoccupied lots or parcels of land in municipally owned cemeteries, created under and by virtue of W.S. 35-8-201 through 35-8-…

Procedure for proposing establishment of special cemetery district. (a) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (b) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (c) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (d) Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5. (e) A special cemetery district may be establish…

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

Body corporate; name and style; powers generally; rules and regulations of trustees. Each district established is hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and style of the .... cemetery district and the name therefor shall be entered upon the commissioners' records and …

Election of trustees in newly established districts; terms. An election of six (6) trustees shall be held therein at the same time as the election for formation of the district. Trustees shall serve without compensation to govern the affairs of the district. There shall be electe…

Procedure for election of trustees in previously existing districts. In all such districts existing as of January 1, 1999, the terms of directors shall be allowed to expire and a vacancy shall be declared and filled pursuant to W.S. 22-29-201 and 22-29-202 until the next regular …

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

Repealed by Laws 1994, ch. 99, § 3.

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

Repealed by Laws 1998, ch. 115, § 5.

of taxes. Administration of finances; assessment and levy (a) The assessor shall at the time of making the annual assessment of his district also assess the property of each special cemetery district in his county and return to the county assessor at the time of returning the ass…

Tax exemption. The property of such cemetery districts shall be exempt from taxation.

Bond issue; question of issuance to be submitted to electors; amount and interest. The board of trustees of any cemetery district may, whenever a majority thereof so decide, request the board of county commissioners to submit to the electors of the district the question whether t…

Bond issue; conduct of election. The election authorized under W.S. 35-8-316 shall be called, conducted and the results thereof canvassed and certified in all respects as near as practicable in the same manner as is provided for bond elections by the Political Subdivision Bond El…

bidders; sale. Bond issue; issuance; form; advertising for If the proposal to issue said bonds shall be approved, the board of trustees may issue such bonds in such form as the board may direct and shall give notice by publication in some newspaper published in the counties in wh…

Bond issue; preparation and execution; certification; to be registered by county treasurer. After ascertaining the best terms upon and the lowest interest at which said bonds can be negotiated, the board shall secure the proper engraving and printing and consecutive numbering the…

Bond issue; payment guaranteed. The full faith and credit of each cemetery district is solemnly pledged for the payment of the interest and the redemption of the principal of all bonds which are issued by such district.

Bond issue; payment of principal and interest. The county treasurer where said district's funds are kept may pay out of any moneys belonging to said district tax fund, the interest and the principal upon any bonds issued by such district, when the same becomes due, upon the prese…

Bond issue; validity. All cemetery districts heretofore formed and organized under the provisions of chapter 58 of the Session Laws of Wyoming, 1949, or under the provisions of chapter 141, Session Laws of Wyoming, 1951, are hereby declared to be duly organized and existing cemet…

Districts charged with maintaining existing public cemeteries. All districts organized under the provisions of this act are charged with the duty of maintaining existing public cemeteries owned and maintained by incorporated cities or towns, or otherwise, within the boundaries of…

Cemeteries in cities and towns in conflict with special cemetery district. No incorporated city or town which is or may be included within the boundaries of a special cemetery district organized under the laws of the state of Wyoming, shall purchase, establish, operate, maintain,…

(a) Definitions. As used in this act: (i) "Columbarium" means any building, structure or any part of a building or structure which is used for the interment of cremated human remains; (ii) "Community vault, crypt, columbarium, mausoleum or structure" means one constructed for the…

Regulations and specifications generally; application to certain columbariums. (a) No person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation shall construct any community vault, crypt, columbarium or mausoleum, wholly or partially above the surface of the ground, to be us…

Supervision of inspector required in erecting structure; compliance with requirements for perpetual care and maintenance. Such structure shall be erected under the supervision of an inspector to be appointed by the state department of health, which shall determine the amount of h…

Perpetual care and maintenance trust fund. (a) Before any cell, vault, crypt, room or niche in any community mausoleum or columbarium shall be sold, the person, firm, partnership, association, company or corporation operating the same shall first deposit the sum of ten thousand d…

Removal of body from vault constituting menace to public health; reinterment; cost; construction contrary to W.S. 35-8-401 through 35-8-407 deemed nuisance; enjoining. When any mausoleum, vault, crypt or structure containing one (1) or more deceased human bodies, shall, in the op…

Rules and regulations. The state department of health and the insurance commissioner are hereby empowered and directed to make such rules and regulations as shall in their judgment be necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, which regulations shall have the f…

Penalty. Any person, officer, manager or agent of any firm, partnership, association, company or corporation who violates any provisions of this act shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00), imprisoned not more than six (6) months, or both.