The following regulations and rules are hereby adopted for the management, operation and maintenance of Pine Ridge Cemetery, owned by the city and located in Section 28, Township 138 North, Range 26 West.
(A) No lot enclosures such as fences, hedges, curbs and the like shall be here in after constructed.
(B) All graves shall be level with the ground; mounds being prohibited.
(C) No automobiles, trucks, wagons or other vehicles shall drive on any cemetery lots.
(D) Plank or other protecting materials shall be placed on the lots before heavy materials are moved over or onto them.
(E) No advertising of any form shall be displayed in the cemetery.
(F) No flowers, either wild or cultivated, shall be picked in the cemetery. No trees or shrubs or other plants shall be marred and no monument or stone shall be damaged or broken into.
(G) All domestic animals must be under restraint and in control while in the cemetery.
(H) No refreshments or liquors of any kind shall be taken into or consumed in the cemetery.
(I) There will be no hunting or target shooting allowed within the cemetery boundaries. Removal of nuisance animals will be authorized by the City Council.
(J) There shall be no motorized recreational vehicles within the cemetery other than those used for cemetery purposes.
(K) All monuments shall be placed in the center, at either end of the lots on foundations. No foundation shall extend above the level of the surrounding ground.
(L) No persons shall open or close any grave, except under the supervision of the person/persons appointed by the City Council in charge of the cemetery maintenance. The City Council shall make such charge for the opening and closing of graves as set forth in the Fee Schedule Ordinance on file in the city offices.
(M) No unauthorized person shall make any excavation, or place any monument, except under supervision of the person/persons appointed by the City Council in charge of the cemetery who shall make no charge for such supervision, except as herein provided for graves.
(N) All burials shall be in permanent vaults or grave boxes of permanent materials into which the caskets are deposited, excluding wood. Due to ground conditions, there will be no new approval for stacking.
(O) Cemetery lot owners must provide prior authorization for any burial in their deeded lot.
(P) A non-resident who purchases a lot or lots will be charged the sum as set forth in the Fee Schedule Ordinance on file in the city offices.
(Q) All grave lots shall be sold for the sum as the City Council determines subject to change from time to time as set forth in the Fee Schedule Ordinance on file in the city offices.
(R) The cemetery shall be closed to the public between sundown and sunrise each day.
(S) Cemetery mausoleums are hereby prohibited.
(T) Lots cannot be purchased and resold for profit. Lots can only be resold back to the city at purchased price.
(U) Minors must be accompanied and supervised by an adult.
(Ord. 301, passed - -) Penalty, see § 90.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see M.S. § 306.15(b) and (c)