35-8-201. Power of cities and towns with respect to cemeteries.
In addition to the powers conferred upon them by law, each incorporated city or town in the state of Wyoming shall have power and authority to purchase, hold, and pay for lands, not exceeding eighty (80) acres in one (1) body, outside of the limits of any incorporated city or town, for the purpose of the burial of the dead; to have and exercise such police jurisdiction over the same, and over any cemetery lying near said city or town and used by the inhabitants thereof, as may be necessary for the proper control and regulation of the same; to survey, plat, map, grade, fence, ornament, and otherwise improve all burial and cemetery grounds and the avenues or streets leading thereto, owned by the city or town; to construct walks, rear and protect ornamental trees therein, and provide for paying the cost thereof; to convey cemetery lots owned by such city or town, and to issue deeds of conveyance therefor in such form and with such conditions therein as may be prescribed by the mayor and council of such city or town, which deeds of conveyance shall be signed by the mayor and attested by the city clerk of such city or town; to limit the number of cemetery lots which shall be owned by the same person at the same time; and to prescribe rules for enclosing and adorning cemetery lots, and the erection of monuments and tombstones thereon.
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