(a) All cemeteries and burying grounds within the city, including those that are no longer used for interment purposes, regardless of whether they are listed or not under Section 11-2, and those regulated under Section 11-18, whether public or private, shall be officially open for any authorized use, such as visiting, care of graves, services for the burial of the dead and other appropriate uses from one-half hour before official sunrise, Central Standard Time, until one-half hour after official sundown, Central Standard Time, daily. It shall be unlawful for anyperson to loiter in, enter into, make use of, attempt to gain access to or otherwise be present in any such cemetery before or after such official visiting hours, except as provided in Subsection (c).
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter outside any cemetery after the official closing hour or prior to the official opening hour; provided, that the area outside the cemetery within which such loitering is prohibited shall be deemed to be the same side of the street as the cemetery where such cemetery or a part thereof fronts upon a street or within 100 feet of the boundary of all or a portion of such cemetery where the same does not front upon or border upon a street.
(c) If any person wishes to gain access to any cemetery after the official closing hour, as designated in Subsection (a), for the purpose of conducting burial or religious ceremonies, then the funeral director or the head of the religious order, as the case may be, shall obtain permission from the sexton of the cemetery in question. (Ord. 9623)