The city council may by resolution designate a portion of the city cemeteries to the burial of indigents. Whenever it is made to appear to the mayor by proof submitted to him by the city recorder that any person who has died does not have an estate sufficient to pay the purchase price of a lot in either of the cemeteries, and that the nearest relative or representative of such deceased person desires to have the body of such deceased interred in either of the cemeteries, the mayor may grant burial space for such deceased person at the request made to him by the city recorder. (1978 Code § 8-291)

The mayor shall communicate his decision to the city recorder. The mayor shall give a report of his decision, whether affirmative or negative, to the city council at its next regular meeting. All strangers without funds or other persons who may die in the city may be granted the privilege granted herein. (1978 Code § 8-291; amd. 2004 Code)