A. Direction Of Disinterment: No person shall disinter any human remains in the cemetery, except under the direction of the Sexton. All disinterments shall comply with applicable State law.
B. Order For Disinterment: The order for disinterment shall include the name of the deceased, when and where born, when and where the place of death occurred, together with the name of parents and spouse, also the date of burial, as well as the name of the cemetery, with the initial letter of the plat, as well as the number of block, lot and burial plot number, and the place of destination if disinterred and transferred beyond the environs of the cemetery.
C. Burial Transit Permit: If the disinterment is to be transported outside the environs of the cemetery, the Cemetery Office shall require a written order for disinterment, together with a burial transit permit from the County Department of Health, to be executed by the certificate holder or his heirs authorizing such removal at least one (1) week prior to the day of the disinterment.
D. Disinterment Responsibility: The Town assumes no responsibility whatsoever for the condition of any casket or vault involved in any removal.
E. Disinterment Of Bodies Of Persons Dying From Contagious Diseases: It shall be unlawful for any person to remove the body of a person who has died of a contagious disease within two (2) years from the date of burial, unless the body has been buried in a hermetically sealed coffin or vault, and is found to be so encased at the time of removal.
F. Disinterment Fee: Fees for a disinterment will be charged according to the work involved, with a base fee established by the Town Council.
G. Correction Of Errors: The cemetery reserves and shall have the right to correct any errors that may be made by it, either in making an interment, a disinterment or removal, or the description, transfer or conveyance of any interment property, either by canceling such conveyance and substituting any conveying in lieu of other interment property of equal value and similar location as far as possible, or as may be selected by the Cemetery Office, or, in the sole discretion of the Cemetery Office, by refunding the amount of money paid on account of said purchase. In the event such error shall involve the disinterment of the remains of any person in such property, the cemetery reserves and shall have the right to remove or transfer such remains so interred to such other property of equal value and similar location as may be substituted and conveyed in lieu thereof.
H. Right Reverts To Town: In the event of disinterment, the right to burial of said plot reverts to the Town and the value at time of purchase will be applied to reinterment, if in the Town Cemetery. (Ord. 01-15, 10-15-2001)