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8-14-18: PROHIBITED ACTS:
   A.   Animal Control: It is unlawful for any person to allow or permit animals to run at large or trespass on city cemetery grounds.
   B.   Injury to or Removal of Property: It is unlawful for any person to injure, deface, destroy or remove from the grave or lot any monument, marker, tree, shrub, flower, ground or any other property or ornament in the city cemetery, except by written permission of the parks superintendent. For the purposes of this subsection, the person who removes such property shall be deemed not to be the owner unless he has previously obtained from the parks superintendent written permission for such removal.
   C.   Vehicles: It is unlawful for any person, except for official city maintenance personnel in the performance of their duties, to drive any vehicle over any grave or upon any nonpaved area of the city cemetery, or to drive any motor vehicle at a speed in excess of five (5) miles per hour.
   D.   Dogs: It is unlawful for any person to allow any dog under his/her control or ownership, other than a guide or service dog, specially trained for that purpose, accompanying a blind, visually handicapped, hearing impaired or otherwise physically disabled person, to be within the city cemetery, even if under leash.
   E.   Certificate Required: It is unlawful for any person to inter any person in the city cemetery without first acquiring a right to be buried as evidenced by a duly issued certificate of burial right or other acceptable proof.
   F.   Disinterment: It is unlawful for any person to disinter any human body except as allowed in section 8-14-5 of this chapter. (2001 Code § 26-1-113; amd. 2009 Code; Ord. 15-23, 8-25-2015; § 8-14-11, Ord. 17-30, 6-14-2017; Ord. 19-48, 12-11-2019, Effective at 12 noon on January 6, 2020)