35-20-209. Duties of secretary -- record of interments. The secretary shall perform all the duties of a secretary of a corporation and shall, in addition, keep a record of interments in which he shall enter as correctly and carefully as may be the name, age, sex, nativity, and cause of death with date of burial of every person interred in such cemetery, which facts he shall procure from such friends or relatives of the deceased or undertaker as give order for such interment at the time thereof or, in case deceased is a pauper, a stranger, or criminal, from the coroner, county physician, overseer of the poor, or other public officer directing the burial of the same.

     History: En. Sec. 8, Ch. 18, L. 1905; re-en. Sec. 4244, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 6476, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 6476, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 9-108.