The grounds of the Granite Falls City Cemetery are sacredly devoted to the interment of human dead, and a strict observance of the decorum which should characterize such a place will be required. All lots are held as burial places for the human dead and for no other purposes.
(A) Description; name. A cemetery has been established and is continued upon land owned by the City of Granite Falls, in the County of Chippewa, State of Minnesota, described as follows:
The Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NE-1/4 of SE-1/4) of Section Twenty-seven (27), Township One Hundred Sixteen (116), Range Thirty-nine (39);
AND ALSO,
a tract of land described as follows: Beginning at a point 80 rods North of the Southeast Corner of Section Twenty-seven (27), Township One Hundred Sixteen (116), Range Thirty-nine (39), thence West along the North line of the South Half of the Southeast Quarter (S-1/2 of SE-1/4) of said Section Twenty-seven (27) 80 rods; thence South 1 rod; thence East 80 rods; thence North 1 rod to the place of beginning. and the same shall be called the “Granite Falls City Cemetery”.
(B) Mausoleum. A facility for the temporary storage of human casketed remains, also known as the “Granite Falls Mausoleum”, has been constructed and established and is continued upon land leased by the city, described as follows:
A tract of land in the County of Yellow Medicine, State of Minnesota, described as follows: Commencing on the point of intersection of the East right-of-way line of Sixth Street, in the City of Granite Falls, Minnesota, and the South right-of-way line of Fourteenth Avenue; thence due South along the Easterly right-of-way line of said Sixth Street as vacated approximately seventy (70) feet more or less to a point, said point being also described as a point ten (10) feet South of the Southwesterly corner of the Wing-Bain Funeral Home as now constructed and maintained, this being the point of beginning; thence continuing Southerly along said Easterly right-of-way line of Sixth Street vacated thirty (30) feet; thence due Easterly on a line parallel to the South line of Fourteenth Avenue thirty-two (32) feet; thence Northerly on a line parallel to the Easterly right-of-way line of Sixth Street vacated thirty (30) feet; thence Westerly to the point of beginning, together with the ingress and egress thereto over and across that portion of vacated Sixth Street line between Blocks Fifty-three (53) and Fifty-four (54) in Pillsbury’s Second Addition to the city lying adjacent to the above-described property.
(2003 Code, § 2-42-1) (Ord. 2, passed 5-29-1987)