[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Holland 12-10-2007
by Ord. No. 1-2007. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases will have the
following meanings, unless a context clearly indicates a different meaning:
A Town cemetery.
Any person, firm, corporation, or limited liability company.
A resident of the Town of Holland, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
Any cemetery owned or maintained by the Town of Holland.
All provisions of the Town ordinances now in force or hereafter enacted
relating to peace and good order and defining public offenses in the Town
shall, insofar as applicable, be in full force and effect in the cemeteries.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, other than duly authorized
officers, officials or employees of the Town, to enter into or be upon Town
cemetery grounds during the time after sunset and before sunrise any day without
first obtaining the permission of the Town Board. It shall further be unlawful
at all times for any person to enter or leave the grounds other than by the
established and open entrances or gateways.
It shall be unlawful for any person to trespass upon lots and graves
of a Town cemetery; provided, however, that this section shall not be construed
to prohibit any person having lawful business in the cemetery in connection
with improvement thereof or persons visiting the graves of relatives or friends
from being in said cemetery in accordance with the rules.
No person shall drive or move any vehicle within the cemetery except
over a roadway open for vehicular traffic or obstruct any path or driveway
within a cemetery open to vehicular traffic. No person shall use the cemetery
grounds or any driveway therein as a public thoroughfare or drive any vehicle
through said grounds except for purposes of making deliveries in the cemetery
or visiting any grave site.
The placing of cut flowers or plastic flowers over individual graves
shall be permitted; however, the Town shall not be responsible for the care
of such flowers or the containers that they are placed in. Further, the Town
shall be permitted to remove, without notice, all flowers, real or artificial,
that, in the opinion of the person in charge of maintenance of the cemetery,
require removal.
It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of any rubbish, trash,
waste materials, litter, or debris of any kind in a Town cemetery.
No person shall remove, molest, injure, mar, deface, throw down or destroy
any headstone, monument, survey marker, corner marker, tomb, vault or mausoleum,
or decoration on any cemetery lot in said cemetery or open, disturb or molest
any grave or place of burial therein. This shall not prohibit acts by Town
officers and employees, or public officials, in carrying out their duties.
It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to plant any tree or
shrub in a Town cemetery except those approved by the Town Board. It shall
be unlawful for any unauthorized person to cut down, injure, break or destroy
any tree, shrub or other plant growing in the cemetery or to pick or cut any
flower or decorative plant except as authorized by the cemetery rules.
