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Sec. 437. Fees for digging graves.

For digging a grave for a person fourteen years of age and
over, the fee shall be $10.00; and for graves for persons under
fourteen years of age the fee shall be $5.00, which fees shall be
paid in advance unless guaranteed by some responsible person,
and every grave shall not be less than five feet in depth. No interment
shall be made which shall disturb the remains of the
dead, or which shall displace or injure any monument or stone
placed over a grave.