Okla. Stat. tit. 8, § 8-3
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Real estate-Limitation on amount-Sale of lots-Other property-
Official statutory text
Application of income.
May hold real estate. Every cemetery corporation has power to
purchase or take by gift, grant or devise and to hold real property
not exceeding eighty (80) acres for the sole use and purpose of a
burial ground and to lay out the same into blocks and lots with
convenient avenues and walks and to sell the lots for the sole use
and purpose of burying the dead; and it may own and hold such other
real and personal property as the legitimate, necessary or proper
purposes of the corporation may require and all income therefrom
shall be applied as hereinafter provided for the payment of the
debts of the corporation and the improvement and ornamentation of
its burial ground and for investment.
May hold real estate. Every cemetery corporation has power to
purchase or take by gift, grant or devise and to hold real property
not exceeding eighty (80) acres for the sole use and purpose of a
burial ground and to lay out the same into blocks and lots with
convenient avenues and walks and to sell the lots for the sole use
and purpose of burying the dead; and it may own and hold such other
real and personal property as the legitimate, necessary or proper
purposes of the corporation may require and all income therefrom
shall be applied as hereinafter provided for the payment of the
debts of the corporation and the improvement and ornamentation of
its burial ground and for investment.
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