A. The governing body may by resolution designate a portion of the municipal cemetery to the burial of indigents. Whenever it is made to appear to the mayor by proof submitted to him by the recorder/clerk that any person who has died does not have an estate sufficient to pay the purchase price of a lot in the cemetery, and that the nearest relative or representative of such deceased person desires to have the body of such deceased interred in the cemetery, the mayor may grant burial space for such deceased person at the request made to him by the recorder/clerk.

B. The mayor shall communicate his decision to both the recorder/clerk and the cemetery superintendent. The mayor shall give report of his decision, whether affirmative or negative, to the governing body at its next regular meeting. All strangers without funds or other persons who may die in the municipality may be granted the privilege granted herein. (Code 1975 § 8-291)