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Charter and Revised Ordinances of Lake City Florida (1912) Gillen & Hodges
Charter oj the City oj Lake City
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Sec. 5. Every physician or other person who
may attend a person dying within the corporate 143/257
limits shall report the name, age, sex, color and
date and cause of death to the City Treasurer
within six days after said death.
Sec. 6. Any person who shall refuse or neg­
lect to make a report as required by the provisions
of this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not
exceeding twenty-five dollars or by imprisonment
not exceeding thirty days.

ORDINANCE NO. 35
Cemeteries

Sec. 1. No cemetery shall be established or
located within the corporate limits of Lake City
except the present four-acre cemetery for white
people as now enclosed, and the one-acre lot,
Number 15, in the Northwest division, for colored
people, as now enclosed. Said cemeteries shall
not be enlarged. Any person burying a corpse
at any other place within the city limits than with­
in the present enclosed cemeteries, shall be pun­
ished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days.
Sec. 2. The City Council shall annually elect
a sexton, who shall have charge of the city ceme­
tery for white people. He shall superintend the
burial of all persons who shall be brought to the
cemetery for interment. He shall keep the ceme­
tery grounds, fences, walks and paths in good
order, clear of all rubbish and other trash or filth.
He shall receive a salary of seventy-five dollars a
year, payable quarterly. In addition to this salary
he shall receive two dollars each for digging and

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