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REVISED VERSION APPROVED BY THE VIRGINIA GENERAL ASSEMBLYON 24 MAR 2004 AND BY THE LUCC BOARD OF TRUSTEES 5 APR 2004
===AN ACT=== INCORPORATING THE Lovettsville Union Cemetery Company PASSED DECEMBER 19, 1879
1st :—BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY That Peter A. Fry, George Wire, L. W. Hickman, J. W.
Goodhart, John D Fry, Charles K. Hough, John Compher of P., Joseph Compher,
Charles W. Fry of S., Jacob D. Virts, John G R. Kalb, David Axline, Charles W.
Fry of I., John W. Nixon and Wm. J. Stone, their successors and associates, and
all such persons as may hereafter become owners of lots in the Cemetery hereby
incorporated, shall be and are hereby created and made a body politic and
corporate, under the name and style of The Lovettsville Union Cemetery Company. 2nd :—The said Company shall have the right to hold,
in or near the town of Lovettsville, land, for the purpose of said Cemetery;
and shall have power to lay out and ornament the same, to erect such buildings
thereon as it may deem necessary and proper, to arrange burial lots, and to
make and enforce by reasonable fines and penalties such By-Laws, Rules and
Regulations for the government of the establishment as it shall judge best;
provided, the same be not contrary to the Constitution and Laws of the United
States, or of this State. 3rd :.—That thereafter no streets, lanes, alleys or
reads shall be made or established over said lands or any part thereof, except
for the use of said Company, without consent of said Company; nor shall
the same be condemned or taken for any public use without the like consent. 4th:—The estate, property and affairs of
said Corporation, not otherwise provided for, shall be managed and controlled
by a board of nine trustees, to be chosen from among the original Corporators,
or those who may hereafter become proprietors of lots in said Cemetery, in
which election each corporator or lot owner shall be entitled to one vote. 5th:—The first meeting of the members of said
Company shall take place at the said Cemetery grounds at such time as may be
designated by the first six of the persons named in this Act, seven days public
notice of the same being given previous to said meeting; at which meeting, and
at all other meetings, the members may vote in person or by proxy. 6th.—That there shall ever after be annual meetings
of the members for the election of trustees, at such time as the By-Laws may
require; but in the event of a failure to hold such meetings, the trustees then
in office shall continue until their successors may be elected. 7th:—That immediately after the first general
meeting for the election of trustees, and of all elections of trustees, they
shall elect from their own body, a President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, and
such other officers as the By-Laws may designate, and may fill any vacancy that
may occur in any office. 8th:—That no interest of a cooperator or lot-owner
in the property of said Company shall be subject in any way to the payment of
debts, or pass by insolvency into the hands of executors or administrators, or
be liable for taxes for state, county, district or any other public purpose,
but the rights and interests shall remain in family of each according to the
course of descent. 9th:—The said Company shall have full power to
acquire assets by sale of lots, gifts, devises in money and personal property,
or by a tax on lot-holders, provided, however, that said Company shall make no
use of said money, property or effects, except for the improvement, repairs,
and maintenance of the Cemetery. 10th.—The grounds and improvements thereon, and all
other property and things connected therewith belonging to said Company hereby
incorporated, shall, for all police purposes, be under the protection of, and
subject to, the ordinances of the County of Loudoun and Commonwealth of
Virginia, which shall have jurisdiction of all offenses committed upon and
within said grounds. 11th:—This Act shall be in force from its passage.
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