The cemetery shall be maintained as follows.
(A) The Winner Cemetery maintenance employees will be responsible for the digging and filling of each grave. This also includes cremated remains.
(B) The Winner Cemetery maintenance employees will fill, sod and/or seed, water, mow and provide for the general maintenance of each and every grave site within the area known as the Winner City Cemetery.
(C) Individuals may care for the site of an immediate family member’s grave only. This is limited to mowing and may not interfere with the maintenance crew and the performance of its duties. No one is allowed within the cemetery from 9:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. daily.
(D) Permanent grave markers, memorials, headstones and/or footstones may be placed on each grave site by qualified monument companies, provided placement is accomplished as directed in compliance with existing city ordinances and under the supervision of cemetery personnel.
(E) Maintenance of those markers and the like shall be the responsibility of surviving family members. If maintenance is required, as determined by city authorities, the city shall have the right to hire monument companies or use city personnel to restore such markers and the like to an upright or ground level position, whichever is necessary as determined by the original placement of the marker. In the event that the monument, marker, headstone or footstone is damaged or destroyed, in the process of repositioning, the city and its employees shall not be held liable. Every reasonable effort shall be taken to provide proper and careful restoration of the marker and the like to its original position.
(F) Vases which are significantly damaged or destroyed by city crews will be replaced by the city at the city’s expense. Replacement of vases damaged or destroyed by natural wear or elements shall be the responsibility of family members.
(G) Flowers, temporary memorials or decorations may be placed on the grave site on Thursday after 5:00 p.m. prior to Memorial Day and may remain on the grave site for one week following Memorial Day. The city will not assume responsibility for, or salvage of, any decorative items so placed.
(H) There shall be no planting of trees, shrubs or other permanent plantings within the city cemetery by any firm or corporation, except by the written permission of the Council.
(I)
Flowers, plants or decorations may be placed at any time, provided they are placed in vases or receptacles, which are an integral part of the headstone, memorial, marker or footstone and do not inhibit the general maintenance of the cemetery. In addition, funeral decorations and other cemetery memorabilia may be placed and left on a grave for up to 14 days following the internment so long as they are not placed outside the grave space. Thereafter, until a permanent gravestone or marker is placed, one or two items may be secured or staked and left on the grave as a temporary marker until the permanent marker is installed. In any event, the city will not assume responsibility for, or salvage of, any funeral decorations and other ceremony memorabilia so placed on a grave.
(Prior Code, § 4.06.02) (Ord. 731, passed - - ; Ord. 825, passed - - ; Ord. 844, passed - - ; Ord. 1054, passed 6-19-2023; Ord. 1057, passed 8-7-2023)