Section 359.37 – Regulations.
359.37 Regulations. 1. The trustees, board of directors, or other officers having the custody and control of any cemetery in this state, shall have power, subject to the bylaws and regulations of such cemetery, to do all of the following: a. To enclose, improve, and adorn the ground of such cemetery. b. To construct avenues […]
Section 359.38 – Watchpersons appointed.
359.38 Watchpersons appointed. Such trustees, directors, or other officers may appoint as many day and night watchpersons of their grounds as they may think expedient, and such watchpersons, and also all their sextons, superintendents, gardeners, and agents, stationed upon or near said grounds are hereby authorized to take and subscribe to an oath of office […]
Section 359.39 – Ex officio police officers.
359.39 Ex officio police officers. Upon the taking of such oath, such watchpersons, sextons, superintendents, gardeners, and agents shall have and exercise all powers of police officers within and adjacent to the cemetery grounds and each shall have power to arrest any and all persons engaged in violating the laws of this state, and to […]
Section 359.40 – Cemeteries — plats — records.
359.40 Cemeteries — plats — records. Where there is located in any township one or more cemeteries, the owner of the same, or any party owning an interest therein, may cause the same to be surveyed, platted, and laid out into subdivisions and lots, numbering the same by progressive numbers, giving the length and breadth, […]
Section 359.41 – Conveyance of lots.
359.41 Conveyance of lots. Repealed by 2005 Acts, ch 128, §73 .
Section 359.42 – Township fire protection service, emergency warning system, and emergency medical service.
359.42 Township fire protection service, emergency warning system, and emergency medical service. Except as otherwise provided in section 331.385, the trustees of each township shall provide fire protection service for the township, exclusive of any part of the township within a benefited fire district and may provide emergency medical service. The trustees may purchase, own, […]
Section 359.43 – Tax levy — supplemental levy — districts.
359.43 Tax levy — supplemental levy — districts. 1. The township trustees may levy an annual tax not exceeding forty and one-half cents per thousand dollars of assessed value of the taxable property in the township, excluding property within a benefited fire district or within the corporate limits of a city, for the purpose of […]
Section 359.45 – Anticipatory bonds.
359.45 Anticipatory bonds. Townships may anticipate the collection of taxes authorized by section 359.43 and for such purposes may direct the county board of supervisors to issue bonds under sections 331.441 through 331.449 relating to essential county purpose bonds except that the bonds are payable only from tax levies on property subject to the levy […]
Section 359.46 – Compensation of township trustees.
359.46 Compensation of township trustees. 1. A township trustee while engaged in official business shall be compensated at an hourly rate established by the county board of supervisors. However, the county board of supervisors may establish a minimum daily pay rate for the time spent by a township trustee attending a scheduled meeting of township […]
Section 359.47 – Compensation of township clerk.
359.47 Compensation of township clerk. A township clerk while engaged in official business shall be compensated at the same rate as the pay rate of a township trustee of the same township. [C51, §2548; R60, §909, 911; C73, §3809; C97, §591; S13, §591; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §5572; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, […]