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(a)
Required. No cemetery or place of burial shall be established in the compact part of the town until the town council shall grant a permit for the same.
(b)
Petition. Before a permit shall be granted by the town council for the establishment of a cemetery or burial ground within the town, a petition shall be filed with the town council, which petition shall be advertised for two (2) weeks in some public newspaper of general circulation in the town before the same shall be acted upon by the town council.
(Code 1967, §§ 7-1, 7-2)