A. The common council shall establish rates for the sale of cemetery lots and perpetual care maintenance within the Custer City Cemetery, and shall periodically make adjustments of those fees. See the fee schedule set by resolution for the rates. The city finance office shall receive, receipt for, and deposit moneys from the sale of lots into the general fund for care and maintenance; and the perpetual care fees shall be deposited into the service fund, known as the Custer City Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund. The Perpetual Care Fund balance shall continue to increase to an amount so that the interest earned thereon may provide for all or a portion of the care of the cemetery. The interest shall be receipted into the general fund for care and maintenance. “Perpetual care” consists of mowing, trimming, raking, refilling as necessary, reseeding as needed, and all care necessary to maintain the property to the best of the ability of the city.
B. Further, the common council shall have the power to contract with the owners or the families of decedents owning lots within the Custer City Cemetery for the care of their lots within the cemetery. Further, the common council shall have the power to hire or contract with firms or individuals for the care, maintenance and improvement of the Custer City Cemetery.
C. No burials shall be made upon a lot for which the city has not received payment. Should there be an interment on a cemetery space for which full payment has not been made, the city reserves the right to disinter the remains and remove the burial, together with any monument or other structure thereon, to some other portion of the cemetery.
D. All cemetery lots or grave spaces shall be used for burial purposes only and shall not be resold without the consent of the designated city employee(s).
E. Cemetery lots or grave spaces shall not be used for any other purpose than as a place for burial of the dead. No interment of remains other than that of a human being shall be made in the cemetery.
F. No burial other than known members of the family of the lot owner, except for lots in the county section, will be allowed, except for written requests made to the finance office. Permission, if granted, shall be filed in the finance office.
G. No lot owner shall be allowed to sell or transfer any lot, or any portion of that lot, for a remuneration or consideration without the approval of the finance office.
(Ord. 782 (part), 2016; Ord. 664 (part), 2009)