Section
91.01 Conveyance of lots
91.02 Placing bodies in vault; removal
91.03 Reserved
91.04 Certificate of permissive use
91.05 Cemetery Trust Fund
91.06 Entombment of unembalmed bodies in mausoleums prohibited
91.07 Interment service fee
91.08 Planting of trees and other living flora
91.09 Payment schedule for certificates of permissive use
91.10 Monuments
91.11 Opening and closing hours
91.12 Rules and regulations: pricing City of Murray mausoleum
(A) For the purpose of this section, “FAMILY” shall mean the spouse, parents, grandparents, children, and grandchildren of the owner of the lot; the brothers and sisters of the owner and their spouses; the parents and grandparents of the spouse of the owner; the spouses of the children of the owner; and no other.
(B) No certificate of permissive use or title of any kind to any lot or portions of lot in the Murray Cemetery shall ever be conveyed to other than a natural person and the lot shall never be used or occupied for the interment of the body of any person except the bodies of persons of the family to whom the lots are conveyed, or their bodily heirs without express written approval of the Mayor.
(C) Nor shall any person possessing the lot or the heir of persons possessing the lot, nor any other person, firm, or corporation, sell or assign, for a valuable consideration, any lot except as hereinafter provided, nor receive any compensation other than as hereinafter provided.
(‘30 Code, Ch. IX, Subj. 23; Am. Ord. 224, passed 6-1-51; Am. Ord. 94-1017, passed 3-24-94; Am. Ord. 2020-1798, passed 7-9-20)
(A) It shall be unlawful for any undertaker or mortician, or any other person, to place or cause to be placed, the body of a deceased person in the receiving vault of the city cemetery, unless a permit for the placing of such body in the vault has been granted by the City Clerk.
(B) Application for such permit may be made by any relative of the deceased, or by the undertaker or mortician having charge of the funeral or interment of such body, or by any other interested person.
(C) Such permit shall be granted for thirty (30) days to any of the above-named persons for the placing in the receiving vault the body of any deceased person who shall at the time be entitled to interment in the city cemetery. At the expiration of the thirty (30) day permit the body shall be removed unless extenuating circumstances prevent permanent interment. In this event, a second thirty (30) day permit may be granted, however, under no circumstances, shall a body remain in the receiving vault longer than sixty (60) days.
(D) It shall be unlawful for the Sexton to allow the body of any deceased person to be placed in the receiving vault unless a permit as set out in this section has been granted.
(Ord. 110, passed 1-5-40; Am. Ord. 94-107, passed 3-24-94)
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