(A) No deceased person shall be interred in the City Cemetery until a city official has located the lot in which burial is to be made; that the lot is not being used beyond its capacity; and before making a proper record of the name and age of the deceased person and the exact location of the grave.
(1) No temporary storage shall be made in the mausoleum without prior notification to and permission from the city.
(2) No more than one burial, including cremation burials, shall be permitted on any one burial site; provided, however, that any one of the following combinations shall be permitted:
(a) One non-cremation and one cremation burial;
(b) Two baby burials;
(c) One adult and one baby burial; or
(d) Two cremation burials.
(B) If a second burial is made on any burial site, it shall be marked by a flush marker, only one elevated monument per burial site shall be permitted. In order to compensate for additional work and record-keeping where there is a second burial on a burial site, an additional charge of one-half the then cost of a burial site shall be paid to the city for the second burial on a site.
(C) The owner of a site, his or her spouse or children, may be buried in a burial site without written approval. No other burials shall be permitted in a site without first obtaining the written consent of the owner and filing a copy thereof with the city, subject, however, to rules, regulations or city code provisions to the contrary. The owner, for this purpose, shall be the owner as the same appears on the cemetery records of the city.
(D) Only one monument shall be allowed on a family plot, except in areas within the cemetery in which multiple markers already exist. In those areas, the size of the monument or memorial is to be governed by the size of the lot and shall not exceed one-half the length of the rear line of the lot. Markers must be set level with the ground at the head of each grave. Foundations for monuments shall be concrete, built to provide at least four inches of wash all around the base or first masonry course, and the foundation must not extend into adjoining lots nor into walkway areas. Grave markers may be laid flush with the ground with at least four-inch concrete flushing or wash. No site shall be graded higher than the general level of the cemetery, except so as to allow for one-year setting. No mound shall be built over any grave. No fence and no stone or cement coping shall be constructed around any site.
(2003 Code, § 2-42-3) (Ord. 2, passed 5-29-1987)