(A) No person shall enter or leave a cemetery enclosure or grounds except by the gates or other places provided for ingress and egress, nor shall anyone mount or walk, climb or run upon the walls or fence surrounding a cemetery, nor across the graves therein.
(B) Notwithstanding the provisions of the immediately preceding division (A), the persons listed below may traverse city cemetery grounds, irrespective of the location of graves, so long as, and only so long as, such movement is conducted in a manner that is quiet, consistent with the good order of the cemetery, and utilizes marked or designated pathways until the person’s reason for traversing grounds of the city cemetery makes it strictly necessary to cross burial space areas. The persons who may lawfully cross burial space areas, specifically including graves, within a city-owned and operated cemetery are as follows:
(1) Individuals and any equipment in their care and control that are traversing the cemetery grounds in order to discharge work related duties as an employee or contractor engaged in providing services that are customary and necessary for the continued maintenance and operation of the city cemetery. This exemption from the prohibition of walking across graces only applies to work duties performed within and for the exclusive benefit of the city-owned and operated cemetery.
(2) Individuals who have previously entered the city cemetery through locations provided for ingress and egress and are walking through the city cemetery grounds as pedestrians in order to attend a funeral service within the city cemetery or at another cemetery that is not city-owned, is contiguous with the boundary of the city cemetery, and is readily accessible from the city cemetery.
(3) Individuals who have previously entered the city cemetery through locations provided for ingress and egress and are walking through the city cemetery grounds as pedestrians in order to visit a particular final resting place of a deceased person interred within the city cemetery or at another cemetery that is not city-owned, is contiguous with the boundary of the city cemetery, and is readily accessible from the city cemetery.
(C) As used within this section, unless otherwise stated or unless the context or subject matter clearly indicates otherwise, the term “cemetery” means any one or a combination of more than one of the following in a place used for cemetery purposes:
(1) A burial park for earth interment.
(2) A mausoleum.
(3) A columbarium.
('69 Code, § 6-23) (Am. Ord. 45 ORD 10-09, passed 10-8-09) Penalty, see § 10.99