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<br />Owners of half sections will deposit $100.00.
<br />Owners of quarter sections will deposit $50.00.
<br />Owners of eighth sections will deposit $30.00.
<br />Owners of grave spaces, per space, $20.00.
<br />(b) Such sums so deposited shall be entered upon the records
<br />of the City to the credit of the above described fund in the name
<br />of the party paying the same, and shall so stand to the credit of
<br />said account as long as this arrangement may be in effect.
<br />(c) That the City shall keep such sections or parts thereof as
<br />shall have been deposited for, in good condition, that is to say,
<br />they shall be kept in good sod, the grass shall be kept in shape,
<br />except that the City shall not be held liable for the deterioration
<br />of the stones or markers caused by erosion.
<br />(d) Should the City, at any time, discontinue the control and
<br />supervision of the several cemeteries, then such funds shall be
<br />transmitted to its successors, or returned to the estates paying
<br />such sums into said fund.
<br />(e) There shall be a Perpetual Care Cemetery Commission
<br />who shall be custodian of said fund. Said Commission shall be
<br />composed of the Mayor, the City Treasurer, the City Auditor and
<br />the Chairman of the Finance Committee. It shall be the duty of
<br />the said Commission to properly invest said fund and to turn into
<br />the City Treasury, annually on the last day of the fiscal year,
<br />the income accruing from said fund.
<br />Sec. 437. Fees for digging graves.
<br />For digging a grave for a person fourteen years of age and
<br />over, the fee shall be $10.00; and for graves for persons under
<br />fourteen years of age the fee shall be $5.00, which fees shall be
<br />paid in advance unless guaranteed by some responsible person,
<br />and every grave shall not be less than five feet in depth. No in-
<br />terment shall be made which shall disturb the remains of the
<br />dead, or which shall displace or injure any monument or stone
<br />placed over a grave.
<br />Sec. 438. Trespass, etc.
<br />For breaking, injuring or destroying any monument, grave-
<br />stone or mark, shrub, plant or tree in the cemeteries, or parks, or
<br />any property appertaining thereto, or for trespassing in any man -
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<br />ner on the grounds, the person or persons so offending shall be
<br />fined not less than $2.00 nor more than $20.00.
<br />Sec. 439. Care of graves of war veterans.
<br />The Superintendent of Parks and Cemeteries is directed to
<br />take care of the graves of soldiers who served in the war between
<br />the States, the Spanish-American War and the World War wher-
<br />ever there is a marker or inscription to identify them, at the ex-
<br />pense of the City where no provision has been made for their up-
<br />keep.
<br />Sec. 440. Record of burials.
<br />The Superintendent of Parks and Cemeteries shall keep a rec-
<br />ord of each cemetery on plats prepared by the City Engineer
<br />showing the name, lot and section number, grave and date of in-
<br />terment of every person buried in said cemeteries.
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<br />CHAPTER XXXII.
<br />FIRE DEPARTMENT.
<br />Sec. 441. Fire departments—Control and supervision.
<br />The Fire Department of the City shall be under the control
<br />of the City Council. All drivers, enginemen and other per-
<br />sons in the employ of the Fire Department shall be elected
<br />by the Fire Company at its annual August meeting and such
<br />election shall be forthwith reported to the City Council to-
<br />gether with the salaries to be paid, for confirmation or rejection
<br />at its September meeting. In event the Council rejects any or all
<br />of the persons so elected, said Council shall at once proceed to
<br />elect. In event of a vacancy the Mayor shall fill the same by ap-
<br />pointment, the appointee to serve until the next regular meeting
<br />of the Fire Company when said Company shall elect a person to
<br />fill such vacancy and present his name to the Council for confir-
<br />mation or rejection as above.
<br />Sec. 442. Fire company.
<br />The Fire Department of the City shall be composed of a vol-
<br />unteer organization known as the "Charlottesville Fire Company."
<br />Such company so organized shall be under the direction and con-
<br />trol of an officer to be styled the chief of the Fire Department
<br />and one assistant chief. The election of chief and assistant, to-
<br />gether with such other officers as said company may deem neces-
<br />sary, shall be held at its regular meeting in August of each year,
<br />or as soon thereafter as practicable, and their term of office shall
<br />commence on the first day of September next following. The
<br />names of the officers thus chosen by said Company shall be pre-
<br />sented to the Council at its next regular meeting for confirma-
<br />tion. In case the Council refuses to confirm said chief and other
<br />officers, said Company shall forthwith elect other persons in place
<br />of those whom the Council refused to confirm, and submit their
<br />names to the Council at its next regular meeting. In case the
<br />Fire Company shall fail to report the names of persons to fill the
<br />positions of chief and assistant of the Fire Company, as provided
<br />above, the Council shall appoint such officers, and they shall hold
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<br />their respective positions and be subject to the regulations herein
<br />prescribed.
<br />Sec. 443. Chief—his duties and powers.
<br />The chief, or in his absence, the assistant chief, shall have con-
<br />trol over all members of the Fire Department while in service at
<br />fires, and may for insubordination thereat, suspend any member
<br />from service for such a period as he may deem proper with the
<br />privilege of appeal to the Company at its next regular meeting.
<br />Said chief and assistant and the Police Officers of the City, shall
<br />exclude from, and prevent the interference of all persons at
<br />buildings and grounds adjacent thereto, during a fire and no per-
<br />son, except City officials and employees in the discharge of their
<br />duties, shall have the right to enter within the ropes surrounding
<br />such fire, except owners of property thereat, or such other per-
<br />sons as may obtain permission of the chief or his assistant. Said
<br />officers shall have the authority to take into custody all persons
<br />persisting in any interference with the work of the Fire Com-
<br />pany; and upon conviction such person shall be fined not less
<br />than $5.00 nor more than $10.00. It shall be the duty of the
<br />chief, or whoever shall act as such, to keep a record of all fires,
<br />their place and time of occurrence, and shall ascertain if possible,
<br />the cause of such fire, the amount of insurance, if any, and ac-
<br />tual loss, and make report thereof to the City Manager for each
<br />month by the tenth of the next month. He shall make such re-
<br />ports to the State Commissioner of Insurance as may be required
<br />of him by state law. Said chief shall deliver to his successor in
<br />office records pertaining to the Fire Department which may be in
<br />his control.
<br />(a) For the purpose for which the Department exists, the
<br />chief shall have full supervision of all apparatus pertaining to
<br />the Fire Department.
<br />(b) All orders deemed necessary by the Council for the good
<br />of the Department shall be issued through the chief or his assist-
<br />ant, to the employees or subordinates; but if the chief or his as-
<br />sistant refuses or neglects to communicate such orders by posting
<br />or otherwise as the Council may direct, then the Council may
<br />cause its orders to be issued in such manner as it may direct.
<br />(c) Any charges preferred in writing against a member of the
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