(A) Cemetery lots shall be purchased at the cemetery office. The cemetery sexton or his designated representative is authorized to conduct the sale of such lots.
(B) After the payment of the purchase price, the city will issue a deed of conveyance describing the purchased lot.
(C) No burial will be allowed on such lot until the purchase price is paid in full.
(D) The cemetery is owned and maintained by the city. Therefore, the city retains the right to enlarge, reduce, re-plat or change the boundaries or grading of the cemetery, or a section or sections, from time to time, including the right to modify or change the locations of roads, drives, or walks, or any part thereof. The city retains the right to lay, maintain and operate, or alter or change pipelines or gutters for sprinkling system, drainage, etc., as well as is the right to use cemetery property not sold to individual plot owners for cemetery purposes, including interment of the dead, or for anything necessary, incidental or convenient thereto. The city reserves to itself and to those lawfully entitled thereto a perpetual right of ingress and egress over plots and lots for the purpose of passing to and from other plots and lots.
(E) Descriptions of lots will be in accordance with the cemetery plats which are kept on file in the sexton's office and at Grayville City Hall.
(F) The city will provide all reasonable precautions to protect plot and lot owners, and the property rights of plot owners, within the cemetery from loss or damage. However, the city disclaims all responsibility for loss or damage from causes beyond its control. For example, damage caused by the elements, an act of God (ground cave ins), common enemy, thieves, vandals, strikers, malicious mischief makers, explosions, invasions, insurrections, riots, or order of any military or civil authority, whether the damage be direct or collateral. Damages caused by private businesses such as monument or vault companies shall be the responsibility of said company; the city shall be held harmless in such situations.
(G) The deed of conveyance of these rules and regulations and any amendments thereto constitute the sole agreement between the city and the lot owner. The statement of any employee or agent, unless confirmed in writing by the sexton, shall in no way bind the city. All plots and lots conveyed by deed and owners of plots are subject to these rules and regulations.
(H) The general care assumed by the cemetery shall in no case mean the maintenance, repair or replacement of any memorial, tomb, or mausoleum placed or erected upon lots; nor the doing of any special or unusual work in the cemetery. Nor does it mean the reconstruction of any marble or granite work on any section or lot, or any portion of portions thereof in the cemetery, caused by the elements, an act of God, common enemy, thieves, vandals, strikers, malicious mischief makers, explosions, unavoidable accidents, invasions, insurrections, riots, or by the order of any military or civil authority, whether the damage be direct or collateral, other than as herein provided.
(Ord. 744, passed 9-13-10)