1997 Minnesota Statutes

     375.36 County board to establish soldiers' rest. 

    A county board may purchase a plot of ground in any duly 
 organized cemetery lying, in whole or part, in the county, or in 
 a contiguous county, to be designated and used exclusively as a 
 soldiers' rest, and appropriate for its cost, embellishment, and 
 upkeep, and for the opening and the closing of graves in it, not 
 more than $3,500 in any one year.  

    The board may use the portion of the appropriation as it 
 deems necessary for compensation and expenses of an agent, who 
 shall be a veteran, to care for the burial ground and to issue 
 permits for burial in it.  

    HIST: (763) 1917 c 60 s 1; 1923 c 335 s 1; 1937 c 178 s 1; 
 1945 c 257 s 1; 1984 c 629 s 2 

*   NOTE:  Section 375.36 is not applicable to Ramsey county. 
*Laws 1974, chapter 435, article 7, section 1.