| Ridge Park Cemetery Marshall, MO |
| Cemetery Regulations |
Purpose
These Regulations are designed to protect the Cemetery and to preserve its beauty. All
Owners, Visitors, and Contractors shall be subject to these Regulations and to all
amendments adopted from time to time by the Cemetery.
Definitions
1. Cemetery means the Ridge Park Cemetery, located in Marshall, Missouri.
2. Interment means inurnment, entombment, or burial of the remains of deceased
person.
3. Interment Space means a Grave Space.
4. Interment Right means the right to inter in an Interment Space.
5. Owner means the person or entity that owns an Interment Right as determined by the
Cemetery’s records.
6. Grave Space means a single earth burial space.
7. Lawn Crypt means a crypt specially constructed, drained and vented for below
ground Interment.
8. Mausoleum Crypt means an aboveground burial space in a mausoleum.
9. Cemetery Deed means a legal instrument conveying an Interment Right to an Owner.
10. Memorial means any marker, nameplate, or identification or memorialization.
11. Contractor means any person or entity, except a Cemetery employee, engaged in or
performing any work in the Cemetery.
Purchase and Ownership of Interment Rights
1. Interment Rights shall be purchased by a written purchase agreement executed by
the Cemetery; verbal agreements or representations shall not bind the Cemetery. After an
Owner fulfills all the requirements of the purchase agreement, the Cemetery shall issue a
Cemetery Deed to the Owner. The Cemetery Deed vests in the Owner an Interment Right
only.
2. After the death of an Owner, the Owner’s rights in any vacant or unused Interment
Space shall pass first to the Owner’s surviving spouse, and if no spouse exists, then to the
Owner’s closest living heir at law as determined by Missouri’s rules of descent and
distribution under R.S.MO Section 474.010. If an Owner has heirs at law who are of the
same degree of kinship, then the Owner’s rights shall pass to the heir at law having the
closest residence to the Cemetery. The determination as to rights to ownership of vacant or
unused Interment Space will be made at time a burial or an assignment is requested.
3. The Owner shall not sell or transfer Interment Rights unless the Cemetery approve
such sale or transfer in writing. The Cemetery may withhold consent to a sale or transfer or
Interment Rights if any indebtedness is due from the Owner to the Cemetery (or Owner is in
violation of any of these Regulations.)
4. All sales or transfers shall be subject to a transfer charge, in an amount determined
from time to time by the Cemetery, which must be paid prior to the Cemetery’s approval of
such sale or transfer.
5. After the death of the Owner, the Owner’s unused Interment Spaces may be
redeeded to the person succeeding to Owner’s rights under Paragraph 2 above upon
receipt of proof satisfactory to Cemetery.
6. Disinterment by heirs of interred or cremated remains so that the Interment Right
maybe sold for a profit or any disinterment contrary to the expressed or implied wishes of
the decedent, is forbidden.
7. No interment Right shall be purchased for investment of speculative purposes, and
any such purchase shall be void and all interment Rights shall revert to the Cemetery.
Interments and Disinterment
1. Except as agreed in writing between the Cemetery and the Owner or Owner’s legal
Representative, no Interment or disinterment shall be made unless all purchase or transfer
charges have been paid in full.
2. After entering the Cemetery, funeral processions shall be subject to the direction of
the Cemetery.
3. The Cemetery may correct without notice or consent any errors that the Cemetery
may make in Interments, disinterment, or removals, or in the inscription, transfer or
conveyance of Memorial, which corrective measure may include, without limitation, the
disinterment of a deceased person interred in an incorrect Interment Space, the substitution
of Interment Spaces of similar value and location, or the cancellation of purchase
agreement and refund of any money paid there under.
4. All Interments must be scheduled with the Cemetery at least 24 hours in advance.
Information regarding the times and days when funerals are permitted is available from the
Cemetery office.
5. An Interment in a Grave Space must be approved in writing on a Cemetery form by
that Space’s Owner, the heir at law succeeding to Owner’s rights under these regulations,
or the individual who contracted for the subject funeral and Interment.
6. There shall be no more than One Interment in any one Interment Space. However,
the Cemetery will allow the cremation remains of two persons in one interment Space. All
cremation remains must be placed in an urn vault. Cremation urn vaults may not be
interred in a pre-existing regular interment, or placed in a foundation for a monument or
marker. Markers or monuments may not be placed in the middle of an Interment Space.
See Memorials & Monuments Section.
7. All Interments shall be in rigid caskets which completely enclose the remains and
which are equipped with handles sufficiently strong to permit the casket to be carried. In
addition, Interments shall be encased in at least a two-piece grave lining of sufficient
structural strength to support backfill and maintenance equipment or a vault. The Cemetery
reserves the right to reject caskets and graves linings that do not conform to these
requirements.
8. The Cemetery is not responsible for establishing the identity of persons to be
interred.
9. The Cemetery is not liable for any damages caused by delays in funerals due to
causes beyond the Cemetery’s control or due to a protest to an Interment.
10. When a disinterment and removal of a deceased person is to be made from an
indigent Grave Space to another Interment Space, the formerly occupied indigent Grave
Space and all rights therein revert to the Cemetery. If no metal or concrete grave lining or
vault was used for the previous Interment in an indigent Grave Space, one must be
furnished before Interment in such other Grave Space.
11. Except as described in paragraph 3 above hereof, a disinterment may be
authorized only by the person originally authorizing the Interment, or by a court order. All
disinterment must be approved by the Cemetery and must be scheduled at least 7 days in
advance. Information regarding the time and days when disinterment fees as established
from time to time by the Cemetery and all other fees and charges must be paid in full prior
to a disinterment.
Care and Maintenance of the Cemetery
1. The Cemetery’s opening and closing hours are daily at the time posed at the gate.
During weekend funerals, the maintenance building office will be open, and Cemetery’s
sexton will be available. Cemetery’s account and sales office located at 925 South Odell,
Marshall, MO is open 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday.
2. From time to time and without notice, the cemetery may enlarge, reduce, replat, or
change the boundaries or grading of all or any part of the cemetery and may install,
change, repair or remove any Cemetery road, walkway, feature, improvement, or fixture, as
the Cemetery deems proper. The Cemetery reserves the right to use all unsold Cemetery
property for such purposes as the Cemetery deems proper.
3. Agreements for special care memorial funds can be provided subject to approval of
the Cemetery with the rights to reject gifts.
4. All grading, road work, landscape work, improvement of any kind, care of Interment
Spaces, openings and closings of Interment Spaces, Interments, disinterment, and removals
of property shall be made by the Cemetery or its approved Contractors using equipment
approved in advance by the Cemetery.
5. The Cemetery reserves to itself a perpetual right of ingress and egress to and from
all Interment lots, roads, and walkways in the Cemetery.
6. If any tree, shrub or plant standing on or adjacent to any interment Space, road,
walkway, feature, improvement, or fixture, the Cemetery may (but is not required to) remove
such tree shrub or plant, or any part thereof, or otherwise correct the condition, as the
Cemetery deems proper, without notice to any Owner or any other person.
7. The Cemetery may use any property which the Cemetery owns near or adjacent to
the Cemetery for any purpose which the Cemetery deems proper, including without
limitation selling or developing such property for uses other than as a cemetery.
Cemetery Operations
1. No Lawn crypt, above ground or surface mausoleum crypts is allowed except in
designated area for these crypts exclusively.
2. Decorations and Flowers on graves:
· Only temporary containers will be permitted that contain fresh flowers or
artificial bouquets.
· If the stone or metal memorial has vases that are permanent to the monument
itself, these may be filled with fresh or artificial arrangements.
· Artificial flowers with wire stems may not be stuck in the ground.
· Christmas wreaths may be placed on stones, but must be removed on or before
the 7th day of January.
· No grave blankets will be allowed.
· Any decoration the owner wishes to retain must be picked up and removed from
the Interment Space within 7 days after placement.
· The Cemetery may remove, without notice, any planting decoration, or other
object placed on or about any Interment Space. The Cemetery assumes no liability for
removal.
· All decorations and flowers may be placed upon graves from the beginning of
Memorial Day weekend. These must be removed sometime during the seven days following
Memorial Day. Public Notice will be given of this date. Public Notice will also be given on
approximately the 7th day of January to remove Christmas decorations.
· After the approximate seven-day span, all flowers or decorations will be
discarded.
· The Cemetery may remove and dispose of any and all decorations at any time
that the Cemetery determines necessary.
· The Cemetery does not allow the planting or cultivated shrubbery, trees,
flowers, or ground covers around individual memorial stones.
· The Cemetery allows only permanent monuments, headstones, and/or
footstones on Interment Spaces depending upon location. It is prohibited to place any
Interment Space any of the following but not limited to things such as:
Wooden, concrete, cast-iron, cast-aluminum, or plastic bench or chair
Urns that are not permanent to the memorial stone
Hanging baskets, bird feeders, wind chimes or pinwheels
Balloons
3. No Enclosure of any kind such as a fence, coping, hedge, or ditch shall be permitted
around an Interment Space.
4. No Loose rock, gravel, or edging materials may be used on an Interment Space
memorial stone or marker
5. No Interment Space shall be raised above the established grade.
6. No individual other than a Contractor may se or reset an Interment Space memorial
or stone or marker
7. No persons shall be permitted to bring alcoholic beverages into the Cemetery.
8. No picnicking, loitering, demonstrations, or assemblies other than funerals will be
allowed
9. The Cemetery expressly disclaims all responsibility for all loss or damage from
causes beyond its reasonable control including but no limited to ice damage, thieves,
vandals, acts of God, explosions, unavoidable accidents (including without limitation
damage to Memorials due by mowing equipment) or war, whether direct or indirect. In
particular, the Cemetery assumes no responsibility for Memorials, flowers, decorations,
vases, urns, or other property on any Interment Space.
10. No Person shall be permitted to enter or leave the Cemetery except by Cemetery
access roads.
11. Opening and closing hours will be posted at the Cemetery gates. Gates will be
locked up the hour.
12. Any person found in the Cemetery after closing hours may be considered a
trespasser.
13. All persons in the Cemetery shall conduct themselves with proper decorum, and at
the discretion of the Cemetery anyone may be removed from the Cemetery for any breach
of this rule.
14. All persons should refrain from walking on graves or climbing or sitting on
monuments.
15. No Vehicle shall be driven in the Cemetery at a speed greater than 15 MPH. All
vehicles shall be restricted to the roads and shall drive and park on the right side. No
undue noise shall be permitted in operating a vehicle through the Cemetery, and only
licensed drivers may operate vehicles within the Cemetery.
16. The Cemetery reserves the right to exclude any or all vehicles from the Cemetery
when it is deemed necessary. The Cemetery also reserves the right exclude any vehicle
that might cause any damage to the roads within the Cemetery.
17. All dogs must be leashed and walked only on roadways.
18. No hunting, trapping or participation in any sporting even or game activities is
permitted within the Cemetery.
19. All persons are strictly prohibited from picking flowers, removing trees or shrubs,
and making any alteration to any property within the Cemetery or the decorations placed by
a family.
20. Visitors and Owners must not engage or pay Cemetery employees working on the
Cemetery grounds. The sexton will give special assistance to visitors and Owners regarding
location of lots and lots available for sale. All orders, inquiries and complaints must be
addressed to the Cemetery office and/or the sexton.
21. All persons are reminded that the Cemetery is devoted to the burial of the dead and
that the provisions and penalties provided by statute will strictly be enforced in all cases of
injury, disturbance or disregard of the rules.
Memorials – Monuments
1. The Cemetery requires that a permanent stone or metal military marker be placed
on the Interment Space within one year of the date of burial. The Cemetery will not maintain,
repair, or replace temporary metal markers. These temporary metal markers will be
removed after a Memorial is set.
2. The Cemetery reserves the right to pre-approve a Memorial’s size, design, and
inscription before it can be set in line with other stones in that section.
3. Agreements for the purchase of a Memorial from an independent monument dealer
shall be in writing on an approved form. All terms and conditions for such “purchase” or
“order” must be recited in a written agreement to the Cemetery. Verbal agreements or
representations will not be binding.
4. Any Contractor who delivers or installs Memorials must sign an agreement with the
Cemetery regarding the terms and conditions of such delivery or installation and agree to
abide by these Regulations prior to making any installation.
5. Prior to installation of any memorial, an Owner shall pay all amounts due to the
Cemetery for Interment Spaces, opening and closing fees or other property or services
purchased from the Cemetery.
6. No installation of any Memorial shall be made without the written authorization of the
Owner or the Owner’s legal representative.
7. The Cemetery has established rules regarding the size, installation, location and
placement of Memorials that have been adopted to preserve and enhance the beauty of the
Cemetery. Information regarding the rules is available from the Cemetery Owners and
Contractors shall consult with the Cemetery prior to purchasing or installing Memorials to
avoid nonconforming Memorials or installations. Owners may vary from these rules to
match previously placed Memorials and should consult the Cemetery before purchasing and
installing replacement Memorials. All memorials that do not conform that do not conform to
the Cemetery’s rules shall be removed at the cost of the Owner.
8. If the Cemetery determines that any Memorial, inscription or any other object placed
in the Cemetery is offensive or improper, the Cemetery has the right (but not the obligation)
to remove, change or correct the offensive or improper Memorial, inscription or object
without notice, at the expense of the Owner.
9. In the “Memorial Lawn Section” of the Cemetery, Memorial’s must be flush with the
established grade.
10. Flush markers furnished by the government are the only types of military Memorial
permitted. The Cemetery will not approve orders for government markers until the legal
representative of the deceased veteran has signed a foundation purchase agreement and
an installation agreement with the Cemetery or a Contractor.
11. No more than two burials shall be identified on any flush Memorial, unless approved
in writing by the Cemetery prior to installation.
12. If the Cemetery determines repairs necessary to any Memorial or Interment Space,
the Cemetery shall notify the Owner at the Owner’s address according to the Cemetery
records.
These Regulations are designed to protect the Cemetery and to preserve its beauty. All
Owners, Visitors, and Contractors shall be subject to these Regulations and to all
amendments adopted from time to time by the Cemetery.
Definitions
1. Cemetery means the Ridge Park Cemetery, located in Marshall, Missouri.
2. Interment means inurnment, entombment, or burial of the remains of deceased
person.
3. Interment Space means a Grave Space.
4. Interment Right means the right to inter in an Interment Space.
5. Owner means the person or entity that owns an Interment Right as determined by the
Cemetery’s records.
6. Grave Space means a single earth burial space.
7. Lawn Crypt means a crypt specially constructed, drained and vented for below
ground Interment.
8. Mausoleum Crypt means an aboveground burial space in a mausoleum.
9. Cemetery Deed means a legal instrument conveying an Interment Right to an Owner.
10. Memorial means any marker, nameplate, or identification or memorialization.
11. Contractor means any person or entity, except a Cemetery employee, engaged in or
performing any work in the Cemetery.
Purchase and Ownership of Interment Rights
1. Interment Rights shall be purchased by a written purchase agreement executed by
the Cemetery; verbal agreements or representations shall not bind the Cemetery. After an
Owner fulfills all the requirements of the purchase agreement, the Cemetery shall issue a
Cemetery Deed to the Owner. The Cemetery Deed vests in the Owner an Interment Right
only.
2. After the death of an Owner, the Owner’s rights in any vacant or unused Interment
Space shall pass first to the Owner’s surviving spouse, and if no spouse exists, then to the
Owner’s closest living heir at law as determined by Missouri’s rules of descent and
distribution under R.S.MO Section 474.010. If an Owner has heirs at law who are of the
same degree of kinship, then the Owner’s rights shall pass to the heir at law having the
closest residence to the Cemetery. The determination as to rights to ownership of vacant or
unused Interment Space will be made at time a burial or an assignment is requested.
3. The Owner shall not sell or transfer Interment Rights unless the Cemetery approve
such sale or transfer in writing. The Cemetery may withhold consent to a sale or transfer or
Interment Rights if any indebtedness is due from the Owner to the Cemetery (or Owner is in
violation of any of these Regulations.)
4. All sales or transfers shall be subject to a transfer charge, in an amount determined
from time to time by the Cemetery, which must be paid prior to the Cemetery’s approval of
such sale or transfer.
5. After the death of the Owner, the Owner’s unused Interment Spaces may be
redeeded to the person succeeding to Owner’s rights under Paragraph 2 above upon
receipt of proof satisfactory to Cemetery.
6. Disinterment by heirs of interred or cremated remains so that the Interment Right
maybe sold for a profit or any disinterment contrary to the expressed or implied wishes of
the decedent, is forbidden.
7. No interment Right shall be purchased for investment of speculative purposes, and
any such purchase shall be void and all interment Rights shall revert to the Cemetery.
Interments and Disinterment
1. Except as agreed in writing between the Cemetery and the Owner or Owner’s legal
Representative, no Interment or disinterment shall be made unless all purchase or transfer
charges have been paid in full.
2. After entering the Cemetery, funeral processions shall be subject to the direction of
the Cemetery.
3. The Cemetery may correct without notice or consent any errors that the Cemetery
may make in Interments, disinterment, or removals, or in the inscription, transfer or
conveyance of Memorial, which corrective measure may include, without limitation, the
disinterment of a deceased person interred in an incorrect Interment Space, the substitution
of Interment Spaces of similar value and location, or the cancellation of purchase
agreement and refund of any money paid there under.
4. All Interments must be scheduled with the Cemetery at least 24 hours in advance.
Information regarding the times and days when funerals are permitted is available from the
Cemetery office.
5. An Interment in a Grave Space must be approved in writing on a Cemetery form by
that Space’s Owner, the heir at law succeeding to Owner’s rights under these regulations,
or the individual who contracted for the subject funeral and Interment.
6. There shall be no more than One Interment in any one Interment Space. However,
the Cemetery will allow the cremation remains of two persons in one interment Space. All
cremation remains must be placed in an urn vault. Cremation urn vaults may not be
interred in a pre-existing regular interment, or placed in a foundation for a monument or
marker. Markers or monuments may not be placed in the middle of an Interment Space.
See Memorials & Monuments Section.
7. All Interments shall be in rigid caskets which completely enclose the remains and
which are equipped with handles sufficiently strong to permit the casket to be carried. In
addition, Interments shall be encased in at least a two-piece grave lining of sufficient
structural strength to support backfill and maintenance equipment or a vault. The Cemetery
reserves the right to reject caskets and graves linings that do not conform to these
requirements.
8. The Cemetery is not responsible for establishing the identity of persons to be
interred.
9. The Cemetery is not liable for any damages caused by delays in funerals due to
causes beyond the Cemetery’s control or due to a protest to an Interment.
10. When a disinterment and removal of a deceased person is to be made from an
indigent Grave Space to another Interment Space, the formerly occupied indigent Grave
Space and all rights therein revert to the Cemetery. If no metal or concrete grave lining or
vault was used for the previous Interment in an indigent Grave Space, one must be
furnished before Interment in such other Grave Space.
11. Except as described in paragraph 3 above hereof, a disinterment may be
authorized only by the person originally authorizing the Interment, or by a court order. All
disinterment must be approved by the Cemetery and must be scheduled at least 7 days in
advance. Information regarding the time and days when disinterment fees as established
from time to time by the Cemetery and all other fees and charges must be paid in full prior
to a disinterment.
Care and Maintenance of the Cemetery
1. The Cemetery’s opening and closing hours are daily at the time posed at the gate.
During weekend funerals, the maintenance building office will be open, and Cemetery’s
sexton will be available. Cemetery’s account and sales office located at 925 South Odell,
Marshall, MO is open 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday – Friday.
2. From time to time and without notice, the cemetery may enlarge, reduce, replat, or
change the boundaries or grading of all or any part of the cemetery and may install,
change, repair or remove any Cemetery road, walkway, feature, improvement, or fixture, as
the Cemetery deems proper. The Cemetery reserves the right to use all unsold Cemetery
property for such purposes as the Cemetery deems proper.
3. Agreements for special care memorial funds can be provided subject to approval of
the Cemetery with the rights to reject gifts.
4. All grading, road work, landscape work, improvement of any kind, care of Interment
Spaces, openings and closings of Interment Spaces, Interments, disinterment, and removals
of property shall be made by the Cemetery or its approved Contractors using equipment
approved in advance by the Cemetery.
5. The Cemetery reserves to itself a perpetual right of ingress and egress to and from
all Interment lots, roads, and walkways in the Cemetery.
6. If any tree, shrub or plant standing on or adjacent to any interment Space, road,
walkway, feature, improvement, or fixture, the Cemetery may (but is not required to) remove
such tree shrub or plant, or any part thereof, or otherwise correct the condition, as the
Cemetery deems proper, without notice to any Owner or any other person.
7. The Cemetery may use any property which the Cemetery owns near or adjacent to
the Cemetery for any purpose which the Cemetery deems proper, including without
limitation selling or developing such property for uses other than as a cemetery.
Cemetery Operations
1. No Lawn crypt, above ground or surface mausoleum crypts is allowed except in
designated area for these crypts exclusively.
2. Decorations and Flowers on graves:
· Only temporary containers will be permitted that contain fresh flowers or
artificial bouquets.
· If the stone or metal memorial has vases that are permanent to the monument
itself, these may be filled with fresh or artificial arrangements.
· Artificial flowers with wire stems may not be stuck in the ground.
· Christmas wreaths may be placed on stones, but must be removed on or before
the 7th day of January.
· No grave blankets will be allowed.
· Any decoration the owner wishes to retain must be picked up and removed from
the Interment Space within 7 days after placement.
· The Cemetery may remove, without notice, any planting decoration, or other
object placed on or about any Interment Space. The Cemetery assumes no liability for
removal.
· All decorations and flowers may be placed upon graves from the beginning of
Memorial Day weekend. These must be removed sometime during the seven days following
Memorial Day. Public Notice will be given of this date. Public Notice will also be given on
approximately the 7th day of January to remove Christmas decorations.
· After the approximate seven-day span, all flowers or decorations will be
discarded.
· The Cemetery may remove and dispose of any and all decorations at any time
that the Cemetery determines necessary.
· The Cemetery does not allow the planting or cultivated shrubbery, trees,
flowers, or ground covers around individual memorial stones.
· The Cemetery allows only permanent monuments, headstones, and/or
footstones on Interment Spaces depending upon location. It is prohibited to place any
Interment Space any of the following but not limited to things such as:
Wooden, concrete, cast-iron, cast-aluminum, or plastic bench or chair
Urns that are not permanent to the memorial stone
Hanging baskets, bird feeders, wind chimes or pinwheels
Balloons
3. No Enclosure of any kind such as a fence, coping, hedge, or ditch shall be permitted
around an Interment Space.
4. No Loose rock, gravel, or edging materials may be used on an Interment Space
memorial stone or marker
5. No Interment Space shall be raised above the established grade.
6. No individual other than a Contractor may se or reset an Interment Space memorial
or stone or marker
7. No persons shall be permitted to bring alcoholic beverages into the Cemetery.
8. No picnicking, loitering, demonstrations, or assemblies other than funerals will be
allowed
9. The Cemetery expressly disclaims all responsibility for all loss or damage from
causes beyond its reasonable control including but no limited to ice damage, thieves,
vandals, acts of God, explosions, unavoidable accidents (including without limitation
damage to Memorials due by mowing equipment) or war, whether direct or indirect. In
particular, the Cemetery assumes no responsibility for Memorials, flowers, decorations,
vases, urns, or other property on any Interment Space.
10. No Person shall be permitted to enter or leave the Cemetery except by Cemetery
access roads.
11. Opening and closing hours will be posted at the Cemetery gates. Gates will be
locked up the hour.
12. Any person found in the Cemetery after closing hours may be considered a
trespasser.
13. All persons in the Cemetery shall conduct themselves with proper decorum, and at
the discretion of the Cemetery anyone may be removed from the Cemetery for any breach
of this rule.
14. All persons should refrain from walking on graves or climbing or sitting on
monuments.
15. No Vehicle shall be driven in the Cemetery at a speed greater than 15 MPH. All
vehicles shall be restricted to the roads and shall drive and park on the right side. No
undue noise shall be permitted in operating a vehicle through the Cemetery, and only
licensed drivers may operate vehicles within the Cemetery.
16. The Cemetery reserves the right to exclude any or all vehicles from the Cemetery
when it is deemed necessary. The Cemetery also reserves the right exclude any vehicle
that might cause any damage to the roads within the Cemetery.
17. All dogs must be leashed and walked only on roadways.
18. No hunting, trapping or participation in any sporting even or game activities is
permitted within the Cemetery.
19. All persons are strictly prohibited from picking flowers, removing trees or shrubs,
and making any alteration to any property within the Cemetery or the decorations placed by
a family.
20. Visitors and Owners must not engage or pay Cemetery employees working on the
Cemetery grounds. The sexton will give special assistance to visitors and Owners regarding
location of lots and lots available for sale. All orders, inquiries and complaints must be
addressed to the Cemetery office and/or the sexton.
21. All persons are reminded that the Cemetery is devoted to the burial of the dead and
that the provisions and penalties provided by statute will strictly be enforced in all cases of
injury, disturbance or disregard of the rules.
Memorials – Monuments
1. The Cemetery requires that a permanent stone or metal military marker be placed
on the Interment Space within one year of the date of burial. The Cemetery will not maintain,
repair, or replace temporary metal markers. These temporary metal markers will be
removed after a Memorial is set.
2. The Cemetery reserves the right to pre-approve a Memorial’s size, design, and
inscription before it can be set in line with other stones in that section.
3. Agreements for the purchase of a Memorial from an independent monument dealer
shall be in writing on an approved form. All terms and conditions for such “purchase” or
“order” must be recited in a written agreement to the Cemetery. Verbal agreements or
representations will not be binding.
4. Any Contractor who delivers or installs Memorials must sign an agreement with the
Cemetery regarding the terms and conditions of such delivery or installation and agree to
abide by these Regulations prior to making any installation.
5. Prior to installation of any memorial, an Owner shall pay all amounts due to the
Cemetery for Interment Spaces, opening and closing fees or other property or services
purchased from the Cemetery.
6. No installation of any Memorial shall be made without the written authorization of the
Owner or the Owner’s legal representative.
7. The Cemetery has established rules regarding the size, installation, location and
placement of Memorials that have been adopted to preserve and enhance the beauty of the
Cemetery. Information regarding the rules is available from the Cemetery Owners and
Contractors shall consult with the Cemetery prior to purchasing or installing Memorials to
avoid nonconforming Memorials or installations. Owners may vary from these rules to
match previously placed Memorials and should consult the Cemetery before purchasing and
installing replacement Memorials. All memorials that do not conform that do not conform to
the Cemetery’s rules shall be removed at the cost of the Owner.
8. If the Cemetery determines that any Memorial, inscription or any other object placed
in the Cemetery is offensive or improper, the Cemetery has the right (but not the obligation)
to remove, change or correct the offensive or improper Memorial, inscription or object
without notice, at the expense of the Owner.
9. In the “Memorial Lawn Section” of the Cemetery, Memorial’s must be flush with the
established grade.
10. Flush markers furnished by the government are the only types of military Memorial
permitted. The Cemetery will not approve orders for government markers until the legal
representative of the deceased veteran has signed a foundation purchase agreement and
an installation agreement with the Cemetery or a Contractor.
11. No more than two burials shall be identified on any flush Memorial, unless approved
in writing by the Cemetery prior to installation.
12. If the Cemetery determines repairs necessary to any Memorial or Interment Space,
the Cemetery shall notify the Owner at the Owner’s address according to the Cemetery
records.
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