Neb. Rev. Stat. § 15-242

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View Statute 15-242

Official statutory text

A city of the primary class may limit the number of cemetery lots which shall be owned by the same person at the same time, may prescribe rules for enclosing, adorning, and erecting monuments and tombstones on cemetery lots, and may prohibit any diversion of the use of such lots and any improper adornment thereof, but no religious test shall be made as to the ownership of such lots, the burial therein, or the ornamentation of graves or lots.

Laws 1901, c. 16, § 129, XLII, p. 138;

R.S.1913, § 4452;

C.S.1922, § 3837;

C.S.1929, § 15-240;

R.S.1943, § 15-242;

Laws 2020, LB1003, § 59.

Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site

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