(A) Subject to laws. Besides being subject to these rules and regulations, all interments and disinterments are subject to the ordinances and statutes of the city, county and state.
(B) Time and charges. All interments and disinterments must be made at the time and in the manner prescribed and are subject to the payment of related charges. At least 48 hours’ notice prior to interments and at least one week’s notice prior to any disinterment is required. The city may refuse to make an interment until a more expedient time if the remains arrive at the cemetery after 4:00 p.m., or if too many funerals arrive at the same hour. The city also reserves the right to require additional time in the event of inclement weather. The city reserves the right to charge an additional fee if a funeral arrives after 4:00 p.m. or more than one-half hour after the scheduled time.
(C) Authorization to inter and disinter. The city may inter or open a grave upon receipt of proper written authorization by any lot owner of record made on forms prescribed by the city or if the lot owner has previously provided written instructions on file at the cemetery. No interment or disinterment shall be completed until payment of applicable charges has been made.
(D) Required concrete box or vault. The city requires a concrete box or vault for full-size casketed interments. Cremains and infant caskets are exempt from this requirement.
(E) Location of interment space. When instructions from the lot owner regarding an interment space cannot be obtained, are indefinite, or cannot be followed, the city may open the space as it deems best and proper so as not to delay the interment.
(F) Orders, other than written instructions. The city shall not be held responsible for any order given by means other than clearly written instructions, or for any mistake occurring from the want of precise and proper instructions as to the particular space, size and location in a lot where interment is desired.
(G) Errors may be corrected. The city reserves the right to correct any errors made making interments or disinterments, or in the description or transfer of any property, either by cancelling or substituting the transfer or refunding the amount paid on account of that purchase. In the event the error shall involve the interment of the remains of any person in that property, the city reserves the right to disinter and reinter the remains in property of equal value and similar location, or as otherwise directed by the lot owner.
(H) Delays caused by protests. The city shall in no way be liable for any delay in the interment or disinterment where a protest to the interment or disinterment has been made, or where ordinances or permits have not been complied with. The city may require any protest to be filed in writing.
(I) Not responsible for identification or embalming. The city shall not be liable for the interment permit nor for verifying the identity of the person interred; nor shall the city be liable in any way for the embalming or cremation of the body.
(J) No interment or disinterment permitted unless property paid for. No interment or disinterment shall be permitted in any property not fully paid for.
(K) Interment of more than one body.
(1) One casket, or one casket and one cremains, or two cremains are allowed to be interred in one grave space.
(2) A second right of interment may be purchased by the lot owner for the interment of an infant or cremains in between two blood relatives.
(3) Interment of up to four cremated remains will be allowed in certain cremation grave spaces of Section 12 and Schmidt’s Addition.
(4) Certain reclaimed or repurchased properties throughout the cemetery may also be allowed multiple interments of cremains, depending on location, character of surrounding area, size of property, placement of memorials and other considerations made according to the judgment of cemetery management.
(L) Interment of human remains. The use of the property in the cemetery is restricted to the interment of human remains only.
(M) Disinterment for profit prohibited. Disinterment so the lot or items contained in the lot may be sold for profit, or disinterment contrary to written instructions of the lot owner, is forbidden.
(N) May obtain different lot. A body may be disinterred from its original lot and be interred in a different lot in the cemetery; provided, there has been a property transfer or purchase for that purpose.
(O) Care in disinterment. The city shall exercise due care in making a disinterment, and it shall assume no liability for damage to any casket or burial vault while making the disinterment.
(P) Disinterment during winter prohibited. Disinterments during the time period of November 16 through April 14 are not allowed.
(2004 Code, § 94.36) (Ord. 735, passed 4-11-1986; Ord. 772, passed 6-22-1988; Ord. 05-0412, passed 8-23-2005; Ord. 13-702, passed 1-22-2013) Penalty, see § 10.99