The governing body of any city having a population of more than fifteen hundred and not exceeding one hundred thousand, may, by ordinance, and under such rules and regulations as it may adopt, provide for the disinterring and removal of all human remains from cemeteries in which no interments have been made for a period of two years, which are within the city, or owned and controlled by the city and located without its boundaries.
(Enacted by Stats. 1939, Ch. 60.)