CHAPTER 642
An Act to amend and reenact §§ 2, 9 and 10 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 1879, relating to the Lovettsville Union Cemetery Company.
Approved April 12, 2004
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 2, 9 and 10 of Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 1879 are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2. The said company shall have the right to hold, in or near the town of
Lovettsville, not exceeding in quantity, ten acres of land, for the purpose of
said cemetery; and shall have power to lay out and ornament the same, to erect such
buildings thereon as it may deem necessary and proper, to arrange burial lots,
and to make and enforce by reasonable fines and penalties such by-laws, rules
and regulations for the government of the establishment as it shall judge best;
provided, the same be not contrary to the constitution and laws of the United
States, or of this state.
§ 9. The said company shall have full power to acquire assets by sale of lots,
gifts, devises in money and personal property, or by a tax on lot-holders, an
amount in value not exceeding ten thousand dollars; provided, however, that
said company shall make no use of said money, property or effects, except for the
improvement, repairs, and maintenance of the cemetery.
§ 10. The grounds and improvements thereon, and all other property and things
connected therewith belonging to said company hereby incorporated, shall, for all
police purposes, be under the protection of, and subject to, the ordinances of the
corporation of the town of Lovettsville, and the mayor, recorder, and
common council of said corporation County of Loudoun and to the Commonwealth of
Virginia, which shall have jurisdiction of all offenses committed upon and
within said grounds, in the same manner as if done and committed within the
town of Lovettsville.