§8-12. Election of officers - Votes and eligibility of lot owners -
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Control by original corporators or successors.
At each subsequent election of officers of any such corporation, held after the first annual election, the owner or owners of a lot in the cemetery, and none other, shall be entitled to one vote at such election, or for any other purpose, and no more than one vote; and shall, by virtue of such proprietorship, be a member of the corporation, and eligible to any of its offices; but if there be more than one proprietor of any such lot, then such one of the proprietors as the majority of them shall designate may cast the one vote as aforesaid; and each trustee or director shall be the sole proprietor of a lot in such cemetery: Provided, that whenever less than five
(5)persons reside within five miles of any cemetery own lots therein, the original corporators or their successors may control and manage said cemetery. R.L.1910, § 390.