(a) All site selections and purchases shall be made through the Parks and Cemetery Superintendent or the Cemetery Sexton.
(b) Cemetery employees will assist the purchaser in preparation of the Cemetery Lot Sales Form. The form shall include the name of the owner/owners; section number; lot number; site or sites; and purchase amount.
(c) The purchaser/owner shall deliver the Cemetery Lot Sales Form to the Finance Department for payment. Upon receipt of payment, the purchaser/owner will take the receipt to the City Manager. The City Manager will have a Deed prepared for the grave site(s) purchased.
(d) Every owner of a site or sites shall be entitled to the use of the cemetery thereof, in fee simple, for sepulcher only, but subject to the provisions of the Ohio Revised Code and subject to the rules and regulations of the City now in force, or hereafter adopted.
(e) No grave site or parts thereof shall be transferred from one owner to another without a deed transfer. All deed transfers will be performed by the City Manager. No cost will be charged to either the owner or recipient of the deed transfer. This section does not prohibit a site owner from burying persons outside the family on the site.
(f) The City will buy any site or sites where there have been no burials. Purchase price for each site shall be the original price paid for the site or sites.
(g) No deed, nor certificate of ownership shall be conveyed and no monument, marker, or other memorial shall be placed, nor shall a burial be permitted within a site until the purchase price of the site has been paid in full.
(h) The cemetery shall provide sites for indigent and transient persons only. The Parks and Cemetery Superintendent or Cemetery Sexton will identify the appropriate site at time of burial.
(i) The cemetery will designate a Baby Grave Section for the purpose of burying stillborn infants and babies. Sites in this section will be sold only at time of burial.
(j) The cemetery will designate a Cremated Remains Section for the purpose of burying the cremated. This section will be made up of one-half the size of normal grave sites and will be designed to accommodate monuments and markers.
(k) Widows of veterans may be buried next to their husbands in the veteran’s owned section. Requests for such burials shall be in written confirmation to the City Manager. Cost for burial of widows shall be that of an opening and closing.
(l) A Veteran’s Widows Trust Fund has been established for the receipt and accumulation of contributions from the Sandusky County Veteran’s Service Commission in the amount of eighty-five dollars ($85.00) for each site to provide for the perpetual care of grave sites in the Veterans Section.
(Ord. 2003-021. Passed 3-4-03.)