South Australian Consolidated Acts South Australian Consolidated Acts590—Power to take over cemeteries
(1) If the owner of
any cemetery within an area is unknown, or if any such cemetery is held by
trustees who are dead or unknown, and the council is of opinion that for the
proper upkeep and care of the cemetery the council should assume the care,
control and management of the cemetery, the council may, by a resolution
passed by an absolute majority, assume the care, control and management of the
cemetery.
(2) Notice of every
such resolution must be published in the Gazette.
(3) The cemetery
becomes, on publication of the notice, a public cemetery and is thereafter
under the care, control and management of the council, and the council may
exercise in respect of the cemetery the same powers as if the cemetery were a
public cemetery vested in the council.