Sec. 436. Perpetual care of sections.
There shall be established a fund to be known as "a fund for
the perpetual care of sections or parts thereof in the cemeteries,
now or hereafter owned or controlled by the City of Charlottesville."
(a) Any owner or other party in interest may deposit with the
City Collector such sum to provide for the perpetual care of his
section or part thereof, as will at 5% per annum produce that
amount now required to be paid by owners of sections for the
annual care of said sections or parts thereof. That is to say:
Owners of whole sections will deposit $160.00.
Owners of half sections will deposit $100.00.
Owners of quarter sections will deposit $50.00.
Owners of eighth sections will deposit $30.00.
Owners of grave spaces, per space, $20.00.
(b) Such sums so deposited shall be entered upon the records
of the City to the credit of the above described fund in the name
of the party paying the same, and shall so stand to the credit of
said account as long as this arrangement may be in effect.
(c) That the City shall keep such sections or parts thereof as
shall have been deposited for, in good condition, that is to say,
they shall be kept in good sod, the grass shall be kept in shape,
except that the City shall not be held liable for the deterioration
of the stones or markers caused by erosion.
(d) Should the City, at any time, discontinue the control and
supervision of the several cemeteries, then such funds shall be
transmitted to its successors, or returned to the estates paying
such sums into said fund.
(e) There shall be a Perpetual Care Cemetery Commission
who shall be custodian of said fund. Said Commission shall be
composed of the Mayor, the City Treasurer, the City Auditor and
the Chairman of the Finance Committee. It shall be the duty of
the said Commission to properly invest said fund and to turn into
the City Treasury, annually on the last day of the fiscal year,
the income accruing from said fund.
