SECTION 1. The board of selectmen of the town of Rockland shall serve as cemetery commissioners for all public burial grounds in the town of Rockland.
SECTION 2.The board of selectmen shall have care, superintendence and management duties for all public burial grounds in the town of Rockland. The board may lay out any existing public burial grounds in town, or any land purchased and set apart by the town for such cemeteries, in lots or other suitable subdivisions, with proper paths and avenues and may plant, embellish, ornament and fence the same and erect therein such suitable edifices and conveniences and make such improvements as it considers convenient. and the board, subject to the approval of the town, may promulgate regulations, consistent with law, as it deems expedient.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect on its passage.
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