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I .1 45b Section 6-25. Permits Required. Prior to the interment or disinterment of any body, whether below ground or in a mausoleum vault, or prior to the setting or resetting of any grave marker except-the temporary marker placed by mortuaries, or prior to the repair of any curbing or lot enclosure, a permit must first be obtained from the City; application for said permit to be made in writing, giving the exact location of the Cemetery lot or crypt on which the work is to be performed, signed by th~ owner of said lot or crypt or the owner's agent, and such other information as may be deemed necessary by the City. Section 6-26. Permit fees. There is hereby established the following schedule of permit fees for work to be performed on the grounds of the San Marcos Cemetery: McGehee Addition; Old Original Addition; Roselawn Addition; A.M. Ramsay Addition; Dixon Addition; Sections 2, 3 and 4: Interments or disinterments...............$20.00 The setting ororesetting of grave markers.... .$5.00 Repairs to or removal of existing curbing or any other type of above ground enclosure... .......$5.00 No fee shall be charged for a permit issued for work performed on a cemetery lot for which a contribution has been made to the perpetual care fund of the City of San Marcos, or for lots in Section 1 of the Dixon Addition for which perpetual care charges are exempted, or work done in the San Marcos Mausoleum. Permit fees will be refunded in the event the full perpetual care fee is paid on the lot for which the permit was issued within 180 days of the permit date, providing that the applicant makes written application to the City for said refund. DIVISION 2. PERPETUAL CARE Section 6-27. City to act as trustee. The City is hereby authorized and empowered to act as a permanent trustee for the perpetual care and upkeep of the lots, graves, burial plots or blocks of lots which are within the confines of the San Marcos Cemetery or which in the future may be within the limits of such cemetery, and upon the acceptance of this trust, as provided for in this division, the same shall become perpetual. Section 6-28. Trust fund generally. Any person desiring to have the City act as trustee for the permanent care and upkeep of graves or burial lots shall have the right to deposit funds as may be required by the City for such purpose, and the acceptance by the City of the funds so deposited shall constitute a permanent and perpetual trust fund for the burial lot or grave so designated. I Section 6-29. Participating certificates. Upon the acceptance by the City of the funds referred to in Section 6-28 the city secretary shall issue a certificate to the person ad- vancing such funds which certificate shall state the purpose of the donation, the amount donated, by whom donated, and the location, insofar as possible, of the grave, lot or plot for which perpetual care is desired and such other information as may be, from time to time, deemed proper and necessary by the City. All such certificates shall be issued in the name of the City to the trustee or person making the advancement and the certificate holder shall have the right, upon the payment of the proper fee and cost, to have such certificate recorded in the deed records of Hays County according to law.