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Page 1 ORDINANCE NO. 955 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PRICHARD, ALABAMA, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful and an offense against the City of Prichard for any person, firm or corporation to operate or otherwise maintain any cemetery or burying ground by whatever name called within the City of Prichard without having prior thereto made suitable arrangements for perpetual care of such cemetery or burying ground. SECTION 2. Any deed or other conveyance transferring or purporting to transfer any lot or lots in any such cemetery or burying ground in the City of Prichard shall contain a clause to the effect that such perpetual care as referred to in Section 1 hereof is provided for. SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall not apply to any cemetery, burying ground or other similar place in operation in the City of Prichard on the day that this Ordinance becomes effective. SECTION 4. Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violation of any of the provisions hereof shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $100.00, and may in addition, in the discretion of the Judge or Recorder trying the cause be sentenced to jail or hard labor for the City of Prichard for a term not to exceed six months, either or both, each day of the continued violation of the provisions hereof = shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable as such. SECTION 5, This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon its passage and advertisement according to law. Adopted this 6th day of June, 196