Fees:

 

 

 

1. All fees or charges for services shall be payable to the Village and paid at the Village Hall or to a designee of the Village clerk. Such charges or fees shall be established, subject to change, by resolution of the Village Council.

2. No other Village employee may solicit or accept any form of payment or gratuity for work or services rendered. Village employees at the cemetery are not permitted to do any work for burial rights holders or interested parties except upon the direct order of the Sexton.

3. The Village Council may establish lower fees for residents than it establishes for those persons who are not residents.

4. The full purchase price of the designated gravesites and the full fee for a grave opening shall be paid before any proposed interment occurs. A deed will be issued upon full payment.

5. Arrangements for the payment of any further indebtedness due to the Village for an interment in the cemetery shall be made before the proposed interment occurs.

6. The charges for any disinterment or removal shall be paid in advance.

7. Fees not paid within 30 days of purchase agreement shall result in cancellation of the agreement.

 

Sundays and Holidays:

 

Interments, disinterments, or removals shall be subject to an additional fee set by the Village Council and added to the regular interment charge if they occur on Saturdays, Sundays or any of the following holidays: New Year's Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and any additional holidays specified by the Village Council.

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Records:

 

The Sexton or designee shall be responsible for all cemetery records, including all interments, burial permits, sale of gravesites. Cemetery records shall be kept separate from any other records of the Village.                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                    

 

Handling & Errors:

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1. The Sexton shall have the right to correct any errors involving interments, disinterments, or the description, transfer, or conveyance of any grave or gravesite.

2. When an interment is to be made in the cemetery, the location of the interment shall be designated by the owner of the gravesite or by heirs of the owner. The Sexton may reject any proposed location of interment if such location would not be consistent with the appearance of surrounding gravesites. The Sexton shall then have the right to designate an alternative location for the interment. No damage liability shall attach because of any error made by the Sexton in so designating the location of interment,

3. All interments, disinterments, and removals, shall be completed by Village employees.