[HISTORY: Adopted by the Annual Town Meeting
of the Town of Wakefield 6-1-1992 by Art. 37 as Ch. IX of the 1992 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Amended 5-10-2018 ATM
by Art. 21]
Funds, money, and securities deposited with the Treasurer in
accordance with the provisions of MGL c. 114, § 19, or otherwise,
for the preservation, care, improvement, or embellishment of Forest
Glade Cemetery, or of burial lots therein, shall be paid into the
Town treasury, and all such funds, money, and securities, and the
accounts thereof, shall be kept separate from other funds, money,
securities, and accounts of the Town.
[Added 4-2-2007 ATM by Art. 4[1]]
No crematorium (defined as a facility for the
cremation of human remains) shall operate within fifteen hundred feet
(1,500') of any residence within the Town, such distance being measured
between the nearest points of the crematorium structure and the nearest
residential structure. This bylaw shall not require the closing of
any crematorium that lawfully commenced operation prior to the construction
of such residential structure. The Board of Health shall have authority
to enforce this bylaw.
[1]
Editor's Note: This article was adopted as
Ch. 448, but was redesignated at the request of the Town.
