Purchase of burial grounds for deceased servicepersons.

Council may appropriate money for and purchase plots of ground in any cemetery or burial ground within its respective city limits for the interment of deceased servicepersons: (1) who: (i) die within the city; or (ii) die beyond the city limits but had a legal residence within the city at the time of death; and (2) whose bodies are entitled to be buried by the county under the provisions of existing law.