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<br />person who has died within the City limits to any place beyond
<br />the City limits for the purpose of burial, without first procuring
<br />a permit to do so from the local Registrar, under a penalty of not
<br />less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00 for each offense.
<br />Sec. 422. Retaining or exposing dead bodies.
<br />No person shall retain or expose, or allow to be exposed or re-
<br />tained, the dead body of any human being to the peril or preju-
<br />dice of the life or health of any person, under a penalty of not
<br />less than $5.00 nor more than $15.00.
<br />Sec. 423. Death of persons unattended by physician.
<br />In case any person shall die within the City without the attend-
<br />ance of a physician, or if the attending physician neglects or re-
<br />fuses to furnish the certificate required, it shall be the duty of
<br />any undertaker who may have charge of the burial, and the right
<br />of any other person acquainted with the facts of the case, to re-
<br />port the same to the Health Officer, who shall thereupon be au-
<br />thorized to give the required certificate; provided it be not a case
<br />requiring the attendance of the Coroner.
<br />Sec. 424. Stillborn children.
<br />Stillborn children and those dead at birth shall be registered as
<br />births and also as deaths and a certificate of both birth and death
<br />shall be filed with the local Registrar.
<br />Sec. 425. Physicians and midwives to register.
<br />It shall be the duty of all physicians and midwives practicing
<br />in the City to register their names with the local Registrar.
<br />Sec. 426. Report of births—births without attendance
<br />of physician or midwife.
<br />Every practicing physician or .midwife in the City, under
<br />whose charge or superintendence a birth shall hereafter take
<br />place, shall file with the local Registrar a certificate of births as
<br />required by the State law. In case the birth of any child shall
<br />occur without the attendance of a physician or midwife, or should
<br />no other person be in attendance upon the mother immediately
<br />thereafter, it shall become the duty of the parent or parents of
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<br />such child to report its birth to the local Registrar within ten days
<br />after the birth and it shall be the duty of the local registrar to se-
<br />cure the necessary information and signature to make a proper
<br />certificate of birth. Any person or persons who shall hereafter
<br />fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall be sub-
<br />jected to a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $10.00 for
<br />each offense.
<br />Sec. 427. Duty of keeper in charge of cemetery.
<br />Every keeper or other person or officer in charge of any ceme-
<br />tery or burial ground within the City shall make a weekly report
<br />to the Health Officer of the number of bodies buried by him
<br />during the preceding week and shall also return to said Health
<br />Officer the permit required by section 420.
<br />Sec. 428. Forms—permits—certificates.
<br />The local Registrar shall supply forms, issue permits, require
<br />proper certificates and keep records as may now or hereafter be
<br />provided by state law, but the salary paid Registrar as Health
<br />Officer shall be in lieu of all fees provided by state law.
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<br />CHAPTER XXXI.
<br />PARKS AND CEMETERIES.
<br />Sec. 429. Superintendent—appointment.
<br />The City Manager shall appoint, subject to the approval of the
<br />Council, a superintendent of parks and cemeteries, who shall have
<br />special charge of the public parks and cemeteries and of all prop-
<br />erty of the City in and about the same.
<br />Sec. 430. His powers and duties.
<br />He shall employ, subject to the approval of the City :Manager,
<br />such help as may be needed for the proper maintenance and op-
<br />eration of the same. He shall have all the powers of a member
<br />of the City Police Force within the parks and cemeteries over
<br />which he has jurisdiction, and within one hundred yards thereof,
<br />and shall keep order and preserve the peace therein; and any one
<br />obstructing or hindering him in the discharge of his duty shall
<br />be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00 for each of-
<br />f ense.
<br />Sec. 431. Laying off lots—mapping and selling of same.
<br />The superintendent shall lay off the cemeteries, not already
<br />.mapped, into sections, half sections, and quarter sections and
<br />eighth sections, and shall have three maps made of the same by
<br />the City Engineer. One of said maps shall be kept by him, one
<br />by the City Engineer, and the other recorded in the Clerk's Of-
<br />fice of the Corporation Court, and he shall sell the sections, half
<br />sections, quarter sections and eighth sections, as shown on said
<br />maps at such prices as may be fixed from time to time by the
<br />Council.
<br />Sec. 432. Deed to sections.
<br />The Mayor shall have authority and it shall be his duty to exe-
<br />cute in the name and on behalf of the City proper deeds convey-
<br />ing with general warranty of title to any purchaser thereof any
<br />section in any cemetery of the City to which the City has a clear
<br />title, upon the certificate of the City Collector that the purchase
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<br />money for said section has been fully paid. To such deed the
<br />seal of the City shall be affixed and attested by the Clerk of the
<br />Council. However, in any such deed it shall be expressly set out
<br />that the section thereby conveyed shall be used for the interment
<br />of white persons only, except as to those parts set aside for col-
<br />ored, and that its management and control shall be subject to any
<br />laws, ordinances or resolutions passed or thereafter passed, by
<br />the City Council for the management, government or improve-
<br />ment of the cemetery in which the section is located, or for the
<br />management, government or improvement of the sections in said
<br />cemeteries.
<br />Sec. 433. To whom lots shall be sold.
<br />All the sections in 'Maplewood and Oakwood cemeteries shall
<br />be used exclusively for the burial or interment of white persons;
<br />except that part in Oakwood which has been set apart by the
<br />Council for colored persons.
<br />Sec. 434. Burial of paupers.
<br />The Council shall designate such portion of Oakwood Ceme-
<br />tery as may be necessary for the interment or burial of paupers.
<br />Sec. 435. Charges for keeping sections in order.
<br />Every owner of a section or part of a section in any cemetery
<br />of the City shall pay annually to the City Collector on the first
<br />day of July the following fee, viz.: For a whole section $8.00;
<br />half section, $5.00; quarter section, $2.50; one-eighth section,
<br />$1.50, for keeping such sections in good condition.
<br />Sec. 436. Perpetual care of sections.
<br />There shall be established a fund to be known as "a fund for
<br />the perpetual care of sections or parts thereof in the cemeteries,
<br />now or hereafter owned or controlled by the City of Charlottes-
<br />ville."
<br />(a) Any owner or other party in interest may deposit with the
<br />City Collector such sum to provide for the perpetual care of his
<br />section or part thereof, as will at 59o' per annum produce that
<br />amount now required to be paid by owners of sections for the
<br />annual care of said sections or parts thereof. That is to say:
<br />Owners of whole sections will deposit $160.00.
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