No person shall be permitted to occupy a lot unless in possession of a deed therefor.
(A) The caretaker is expressly charged with the duty of enforcing the statutes enacted for the protection of cemeteries and he or she is required to arrest and prosecute all persons violating said enactments in or around the cemetery grounds.
(B) The rules of this cemetery shall not be deviated from without the consent of the Board of Cemetery Trustees.
(C) Persons desirous of purchasing a lot may go to the Clerk of the Cemetery who will show them the lots for sale.
(D) After a lot is selected and the Clerk of the Cemetery has been paid, an order for interment may at any time be given.
(E) Prospective purchasers of a lot may, upon application at the office of the Cemetery Clerk, secure a reservation of any one lot for a period not to exceed 30 days.
(F) Lots in this cemetery are exempt from taxation and cannot be seized for debt, nor attached by any process of law; neither can they be mortgaged.
(G) The courts have held that a deed to a cemetery lot represents personal property, not real estate, and that a widow has no dower right therein; but her right of burial in the lot may not be denied.
(H) The deed to a lot conveys only burial rights and the title to the land remains in the corporation of the village.
(I) Sale of lots by the lot owners cannot be permitted except by the consent of the Board of Cemetery Trustees.
(J) No lot can be exchanged for another unless the difference in value is $25 and when such exchange is made, the original deed must be surrendered by proper assignment. No lot can be transferred unless permission is obtained from the Board; the expense of transfer or exchange, paid by the party applying for the same. Proprietors shall not allow interment to be made in their lots for a remuneration.
(K) All lots shall be held subject to the laws of the state, also subject to all rules and regulations which may from time to time be adopted for the government of said cemetery.
(L) The boundaries of all lots in this cemetery are designated by cornerstones and numbers. These stones are set even with the surface of the ground and no others are permitted.
(M) Owners of lots can have bodies removed from such graves by paying additional cost of reinterment. Where bodies are to be removed to other cemeteries the regular charge for disinterment shall be made.
(Ord. 15-95, passed 7-3-1995) Penalty, see § 94.99