[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Cemetery Commissioners
of the Town of Lynnfield. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Cemetery lots shall not be used for any other purpose than as
a place of burial for the dead; and all burials therein shall be under
the personal charge of the Superintendent of the Cemetery, to whom
shall be paid such fee for opening a tomb or digging a grave as shall
be established by the Board of Commissioners, having the care, superintendence
and management of said cemetery.
The proprietor of any lot shall have the right to erect stone
monuments, or sepulchral structures, and to cultivate shrubs and plants
in the same; but no tree within the lot or border shall be set out,
cut down or destroyed without the consent of said Commission.
If any trees or shrubs on any lot shall by means of their roots
or branches, or otherwise, become detrimental to the adjacent lots,
avenues or paths, or dangerous or inconvenient to passengers, it shall
be the duty of said Commission for the time being, and they shall
have the right to enter into the lot and remove the trees and shrubs
or such part thereof as are thus detrimental, dangerous or inconvenient.
If any monument or effigy, or any structure whatever or any
inscriptions be placed in or upon any lot, which shall be determined
by the major part of said Commission for the time being to be offensive
or improper, the Commissioners, or major part of them, shall have
the right, and it shall be their duty, to enter upon the lot and remove
the improper object or objects.
No fence or curbing shall, at any time, be erected or placed
in or around any lot except with the approval of the Board of Cemetery
Commissioners, and the establishment of the grade of any lot shall
be subject to the approval of said Commissioners.
No tomb shall be constructed or allowed within the bounds of
the cemetery unless by special permission of the Board of Commissioners,
and in such places and in such manner as the Commissioners shall direct.
No proprietor shall suffer the remains of any person to be deposited
within the bounds of his lot for hire.
Lot owners making improvements on lots that are under perpetual
care will be charged with any necessary expense of putting the lots
in order, after such improvements are made.
All foundations of monuments, headstones, markers, or any other
erections must be constructed by the Commissioners or their authorized
agents, and all orders or specifications for the same must be made
in writing.
[Adopted 3-11-1929 ATM]
All lots shall be held subject to the provisions of the laws
of the commonwealth in relation to cemeteries and cemetery corporations
and to all bylaws, rules and regulations made and to be made by the
Board of Commissioners.
[Adopted 3-9-1936 ATM]
Lots shall be laid out in such sizes and sold for uniform prices
as the Board and its successors in office shall from time to time
deem expedient. Park and Cemetery Commissioners are authorized to
accept money for endowment of cemetery lots, to be deposited by the
Town Treasurer, and the interest only to be used for perpetual care.
