[Ord. 923, §1]
The cemetery of the city, and the Weber Cemetery are recognized
as legal and proper places of interment of persons who may die in
the city, or who may be brought to the city for burial.
[Ord. 2217, §§1, 2]
(a)
Curfew:
No person shall be within or loiter upon the grounds of the Rolla
Cemetery from one (1) hour after sunset to one (1) hour before sunrise.
[Ord. 923, §2]
It shall be unlawful to bury deceased persons in the city, except
in a cemetery or burying ground which has been recognized by the city
council as legal and proper places of interment.
[Ord. 923, §4]
No cemetery or burial ground shall be laid out, established
or the limits of an unauthorized cemetery or burial ground extended
without a permit for same to be issued by and at the direction of
the city council.
[Ord. 923, §7]
Every person owning any cemetery or burial ground not private,
or having in his charge or control, or exercising supervision over
such cemetery or burial ground, in which bodies are allowed to be
buried, shall file in the office of the city clerk a plat of such
cemetery or burial ground, showing its walks, ways, roads and the
number and sizes of the burial lots therein, the names of their respective
owners, so far as such cemetery has been laid out and sold. Annually,
on or about the first day of January, such person shall file, so as
to continue from year to year the original plat until it shall show
the whole tract subdivided into lots and the owners' names, a corrected
plat showing new thoroughfares and places, if any have been laid out,
and all lots, with the names of the owners and size indicated on each
lot, sold since the previous January first.
[Ord. 923, §12; Ord. 4025, §1]
No body of any deceased person shall be buried in any cemetery
within the city at less depth than that permitted by the state board
of health. Burial vaults or tombs shall be erected for the reception
of deceased persons.
[Ord. 923, §14]
No person shall willfully destroy, disfigure or injure any wall,
fence, ledge, monument, tombstone, tree or shrubbery around or within
any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground nor shall any person use
such a cemetery, graveyard or burial ground for any purpose other
than a burying ground.
[Ord. 923, §10]
No person, except as provided in Section 7-27, shall dig or open a grave in the cemetery of the city. Such work shall be done by the city upon the payment of the fees required in Section 7-26.
[Ord. 2234, §§3, 4; Ord. 2319, §1; Ord. 2777, §2; Ord. 3896, §2; Ord. 4025, §2; Ord. 4535, §1]
(a)
There
is hereby established for use in the sale of grave lots situated in
Rolla Cemetery, the following price list:
(1)
A single-grave
lot: one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200.00).
(b)
The above
listed grave lot prices include the following amounts to be placed
in the eternal care fund:
(1)
Single-grave
lots: one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).
(c)
Payment
of the eternal care fee shall relieve the lot owner of any future
liability for annual maintenance payments. These eternal care fees
shall be placed in the eternal care fund, which will be invested in
a manner to earn the highest interest return on the investment consistent
with city fund investment policies. Interest earned from the investment
shall be used only for maintenance purposes at the Rolla Cemetery.
At no time shall any portion of the principal of the eternal care
fund be used for any purpose other than investment.
(d)
This ordinance
shall be in full force and effect from and after January 1, 2020.