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(a) In General. No person shall inter anything, other than the remains of human bodies, in any cemetery, and no person shall inter any deceased human in any place other than within a cemetery devoted to that purpose.
(b) Permit Required. No interment or disinterment will be permitted without a permit, as required by law.
(c) Disinterment Requests. The City holds that a lot or grave once used for a burial thereby becomes sacred ground and the City shall refuse to allow the body buried therein to be disinterred except by order of the husband, wife, father, mother, son or daughter of the deceased. The City reserves the right to refuse any such request.
(d) Opening and Closing Graves. All graves will be opened and closed by City employees under the direction of the Superintendent of Cemeteries.
(e) Two or More Persons in One Grave. The burial of two or more persons in one grave is prohibited, except for a mother and infant, if buried at the same time, or twin children buried on the same day, and except by permission of the Superintendent.
(f) Remuneration Prohibited. No owner of any lot shall allow any interment to be made in any cemetery for remuneration.
(g) Errors. Under no circumstances will the City assume responsibility for errors in opening graves when orders are given by telephone. Orders by undertakers for the opening of graves will be considered as orders from the lot owners.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)
(a) Grave Mounds Prohibited. No grave mounds shall hereafter be permitted and all graves shall be sodded level with the lawn. Present grave mounds shall be removed and graves sodded over as rapidly as possible.
(b) Irregular Appearance of Graves. No grave shall be placed so as to have an irregular appearance with graves in the same or adjoining lots.
(c) Injuring Markers, Etc. No person shall deface, injure, disturb, mark or write upon any marker, monument, headstone, fence or structure in any cemetery.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)
(d) Location of Monuments and Headstones. No monument or headstone shall be permitted except in Blocks or Sections A, B, C, D, E, F, G, K, L, M, S and T of Glenwood Cemetery. All such monuments and headstones shall be set on concrete foundations and shall be made of granite, marble or bronze of such size, shape and design and bearing such insignia, lettering or wording as may be approved by the Superintendent of Cemeteries.
(Ord. 1989-17. Passed 9-19-89.)
(e) Materials for Markers; Specifications. All grave markers shall be made of bronze, granite or marble, shall be set flush with the ground on concrete foundations and shall be of such size, shape and design and bear such insignia, lettering or wording as may be approved by the Superintendent of Cemeteries.
(f) Injuring Vases, Etc. No person shall injure or destroy, take or carry away any vase, flower pot or other container or ornament that may have been placed in a cemetery, except such items as were originally brought in by the party so removing them.
(g) Mausoleums. The construction or placing of mausoleums upon lots in cemeteries, after the effective date of this chapter (Ordinance 16, passed September 1, 1964) is prohibited.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)
(a) Direction. All funerals, interments and disinterments in any cemetery shall be under the direction of the Superintendent of Cemeteries.
(b) Notice. Notice of a funeral, with the exact location of the grave, must be furnished to the Superintendent a reasonable time in advance of the interment.
(c) Strangers in Funeral Zones Prohibited. Strangers shall not approach the grave at which a funeral is being conducted. When deemed necessary by the Superintendent, or upon request of the lot owner or his or her representative, a funeral zone may be established and properly marked and no person, other than persons attending the funeral, will be permitted to trespass within its boundaries.
(d) Suspension of Work. Workmen must suspend their labor within the immediate vicinity of a funeral until the conclusion of all of such services.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)
No person shall enter or remain within any cemetery between one-half hour after sunset and 8:00 a.m. of the following day, except workmen employed by the City. An earlier closing time may be established when approved by the Cemetery Committee and posted by the Superintendent of Cemeteries.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)
(a) Sightseeing or Heavy Vehicles. Sightseeing vehicles or other heavy or cumbersome vehicles shall not enter any cemetery without permission of the Superintendent of Cemeteries.
(b) Places of Entrance. No person shall enter, nor shall any vehicle be propelled or driven into, any cemetery except through the established gates and entrances thereof.
(c) Speed. No vehicle shall be driven in any cemetery at any time at a speed greater than is reasonable and proper under all circumstances, and in no event in excess of fifteen miles per hour.
(d) Operation on Roadways Only. No vehicle of any description shall be driven or propelled in any cemetery except upon those portions of the roadways set aside for vehicular traffic.
(e) Application of Traffic Code. The provisions of the Traffic Code, relative to the operation of vehicles and the conduct of pedestrians, shall apply and control in cemeteries, except as modified in this chapter.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)
Children under the age of twelve years shall not be allowed in cemeteries unless accompanied by their parents or other adults, except for the purpose of placing flowers on the grave of a deceased relative or friend or performing any other customary evidence of respect in accordance with their religious principles.
(Ord. 16. Passed 9-1-64.)
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