(A) Costs; charges.
(1) Charges. The cost of a cemetery burial plot, deeded to the name of an individual residing within the corporate limits of the town, will available at a cost set by Council from time to time. The cost of a cemetery burial plot, deeded to the name of an individual residing outside the corporate limits of the town, will be available at a cost set by Council from time to time.
(2) Maintenance fee. Maintenance fees are levied on those graves originally purchased for a resident that are being used to bury a nonresident. The maintenance fee charged shall be the difference from the original purchase price and the current out- of-town grave cost, not to exceed a maximum fee set by Council from time to time. This fee shall be paid prior to interment and may be refunded to the individual paying the maintenance fee by act of Council upon a request in writing, if it can be demonstrated that the body being interred had been a long-term resident of 18 years or greater in the town.
(B) Plot changing. A body, or cremated remains, may not be removed from its original plot to another plot in the cemetery, except when there has been a purchase of another plot wherein the body, or cremated remains, will be placed. In this event, there will be no refund or exchange for the original plot.
(C) Organizational ownership. Where a cemetery plot is deeded to a church, lodge, society, company or corporation, that organization will exercise consent or will designate the individuals to be interred in the plot.
(D) Interment of 1 body.
(1) Not more than 1 body nor the remains of more than 1 body will be interred in 1 cemetery plot.
(2) Pre-existing grave (in place prior to this policy change): a cremain can be added to existing casket in a grave or a cremain can be added to another cremain already in a grave.
(E) Transfer of deed. No transfer or assignment of any cemetery plot, or interest therein, will be valid without the consent in writing of the Town Manager upon approval by the Council. A transfer or assignment will not be valid until any indebtedness is paid for the cemetery plot. A transfer or assignment of ownership in a cemetery plot will be subject to a charge of $15, which fee must be paid to the town prior to the transfer or assignment.
(F) Resale, exchange or trade. The resale, exchange or trade of a cemetery plot is prohibited, except that the owner may be refunded by the town for the purchase of the plot, less a $15 fee for the deed transfer to the town. The refund will be that amount described as the cost of a burial plot in division (A) of this section.
(G) Notification of owner’s address change. It will be the responsibility of the plot owner to notify the town of any change in his or her post office address.
(H) When graves are purchased, the purchaser or owner listed on the deed needs to specify who will be buried in each grave. This can only be changed if all living parties provide a notarized document confirming the change(s) is agreeable with each of them.
(1997 Code, § 22-32) (Ord. passed 8-12-1997; Am. Ord. passed 4-10-2012)