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All The Other Rules:

Grading and Surface Matrials - General Maintenance - Perpetual Care - Existing Conditions - Violations - Cemetery Board

 

Grading and surface materials

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The grading of graves, gravesites, and grounds shall be performed only by Village employees or others authorized by the Sexton. Any ground surface other than sod is prohibited.

 

 

General maintenance

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The Village reserves the right to remove or trim any tree, plant, shrub located within the cemetery in the interest of the property maintenance, appearance, and use of the cemetery.

 

Perpetual care

 

  1. All gravesites shall be sold with perpetual care benefits for the amounts established by the Village Council. Perpetual care includes, without limitation and according to the Village's discretion, the cutting, trimming, sprinkling, and fertilizing of the grass, the raking and cleaning of the grounds, the replacing of the turf under certain conditions, and the pruning of shrubs or trees, all at reasonable intervals as determined by the Village.

  2. The perpetual care assumed by the Village shall in no case mean the maintenance, repair or replacement of any marker, monument, flower urn or other memorial placed or erected upon graves or gravesites, or the performance of any special unusual work which the Village determines to be beyond the scope of perpetual care.

  3. The Village reserves the right to perform all the work for the care and upkeep of the cemetery. However, this reservation shall not be interpreted to add to the Village's responsibilities under this policy. No person other than a Village employee, or person under contract with the Village for this purpose, may spread any kind of fertilizer on the cemetery property.

 

Existing conditions

 

Notwithstanding any provisions in this policy to the contrary,  no conditions existing in the cemetery as of the date of adoption of  this policy  shall  be deemed  a violation of this policy, if the condition to continues to exist without interruption, and if the Sexton does not determine that the condition is a threat to public safety.

However, deterioration of any existing conditions constitutes a change or interruption and is subject to modification or removal.

 

 

Violations

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Persons or owners of graves/gravesites found in violation of this policy shall be given written notice and request to correct the violation, when an owner is known. Written notice shall give a 30 day notice to correct the violation. If, after appropriate notice is given, the violation is not corrected, the Sexton shall arrange for the violation to be corrected. Any person violating any provisions of this policy shall be responsible for a municipal civil infraction, subject to enforcement procedures as set forth in the Village ordinance pertaining to municipal civil infraction. Any appeal of provisions of this policy, before or after the fact, shall be made according to the Village appeal process.

 

Cemetery Board

 

  1. The Cemetery Board shall make recommendations to the Village Council for long range planning of the cemetery.

  2. The Cemetery Board shall make recommendations to the Village Council for rules or for changes to this policy

  3. The Cemetery Board shall consider prompt appeal by persons of decisions by the Sexton. The decisions by the Cemetery Board shall be final.  The Cemetery Board shall grant the appeal with or without conditions, deny the appeal, or modify the appeal, with or without conditions. The Cemetery Board shall attempt to maintain consistency of decisions, absent a specific finding of a reason to justify a variation from prior Cemetery Board decisions.

  4. The Cemetery Board may consider and make recommendations to the Village Council concerning any other matters pertaining to the cemetery.

 

Amended and approved by the Cemetery Board July 2018

 

Approved by Council August 2018

 

Amended

 

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