Regulations relating to lots in the cemetery and the sale of the lots shall be as follows:
(a) The charge for sale of all spaces in the city cemetery shall be determined by resolution adopted by the governing body;
(b) All unsold lots or fractions of lots, surveyed and platted for grave spaces in the cemetery, shall be sold by lots, fractions thereof or single grave spaces by the city for such sum or sums as the governing body shall prescribe by resolution;
(c) All lots and grave spaces shall be used solely for the purpose of interment of human bodies;
(d) No lot or grave space shall be used for the purpose of burial, nor a deed issued until the purchase price therefor shall have been paid in full to the city (or until the City Clerk shall have satisfactory guarantee of such payment);
(e) Upon the full payment of the purchase price for any lot, fraction thereof or grave space owned by the city, plus full payment of the cost for permanent maintenance thereof, a cemetery certificate shall be issued by the City Clerk which shall be signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk under the seal of the city;
(f) One half of the monies received from the sale of lots, fractions thereof and grave spaces shall be deposited by the City Clerk into the General Operating Fund, and one half of said monies shall be deposited to the Cemetery Reserve Fund for use only in the purchase and development of new cemetery land. All permanent maintenance funds received must be used in accordance with the provisions of § 12-125; and
(g) Babyland. Lots 1, 8 and 9 of section 7 of the city cemetery shall be reserved for interment of infants 18 months and younger. Owners of Babyland grave spaces are subject to the regulations found elsewhere in this article, unless exceptions are specified.
(Ord. 1113, passed 4-21-1992)