(A) Persons employed in placing or erecting monuments, or bringing in materials, shall, as to the city, operate as independent contractors only under permit from the city and be under the supervision of the city. These persons are prohibited from attaching ropes to monuments, to trees or to shrubs. These persons shall not permit material to be on adjoining lots or block avenues or pathways longer than necessary. These persons shall take care to do as little injury to the grass, trees and shrubs, and the like, as possible and are responsible for removing debris and restoring the grounds and sod to their original condition.
(B) Damage done to any property shall be repaired by persons placing or erecting memorials. Damage that is not repaired in a timely manner may be repaired by the city, and the cost of the repairs shall be charged to the persons installing the memorial.
(C) No material, machinery or other item used for the construction of memorials may be brought into the cemetery until required for immediate use; nor under any circumstances when a funeral is in process. Nor shall any memorial work be conducted, except during normal cemetery hours. Material may not be placed on adjoining lots without permission from the city. Work shall proceed promptly until the erection of the memorial is completed.
(D) No work of any kind shall be done while a funeral or interment is being conducted.
(E) The installation of coping, curbing, fencing, hedging, plantings, grave mounds, borders, enclosures of any kind, brick, cinders, tile, stone, marble, terra cotta, sand, cement, gravel or wood shall not be allowed on or around any lot. The city reserves the right to remove the same if so erected, planted or placed and charge the cost of removal to the lot owner.
(F) The city shall have the authority to reject any permit application based on the plan or design for any memorial which, on account of its size, design, inscription, kind or quality of stone is, in the opinion of the city, unsuited to the lot on which it is to be placed.
(G) The city reserves the right to stop all work of any nature being done at the cemetery whenever, in its opinion, proper preparations therefor have not been made, when tools and machinery are insufficient or defective, when work is being executed in a manner so as to threaten life or property, when persons installing memorials are guilty of misrepresentation, when any reasonable request on the part of the city is disregarded, when work is not being executed according to the permit, or when a worker violates these rules and regulations. Completed work is subject to the approval of the city.
(H) All memorials shall be constructed of natural stone. Should any memorial become unsightly, dilapidated or dangerous, the city shall have the right to correct the condition or to remove the same, at the expense of the lot owner.
(I) No memorial shall be removed from the cemetery, except by the city. Only upon the written order of the lot owner and permission being subsequently granted by the city shall a memorial be removed.
(2004 Code, § 94.45) (Ord. 735, passed 4-11-1986; Ord. 772, passed 6-22-1988; Ord. 13-702, passed 1-22-2013; Ord. 22-830, passed 7-26-2022) Penalty, see § 10.99