[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Seneca Falls 10-1-2013 by L.L. No. 3-2014. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
Any place set aside or dedicated for the burial of the human
dead within the Town of Seneca Falls or under Town control.
No person shall dig any grave, inter or disinter
any dead human body in a cemetery within or controlled by the Town
of Seneca Falls without the written consent of the cemetery superintendent.
No person shall put up any fence, gravestone
or marker or decoration of any kind at any grave or dig up any sod
in any of the cemeteries of the Town without the approval of the cemetery
superintendent and in accordance with cemetery regulations as prescribed
by the Town Board of the Town of Seneca Falls.
A.
No person shall walk or drive any vehicle or other
conveyance over or upon any lot or path in any cemetery within the
Town, except upon or over the parks and roads therein laid out, or
leave any vehicle standing in any road or path in any cemetery so
as to hinder the free passage of other persons using such roadway.
No person shall enter into or upon any cemetery except through the
gate and entrances thereto.
B.
No person shall use any cemetery as a common thoroughfare
or public walk, and all traveling through or across any cemetery,
except in connection with cemetery purposes or for the purpose of
visiting a burial lot, is forbidden.
C.
Only passenger-type vehicles and other authorized
vehicles required for grave preparation, interment and perpetual care
may be driven within the bounds of any Town cemetery. Autos pulling
trailers or campers, motor homes, trucks (other than those classified
as "pickup") and motorcycles are not allowed.
D.
Cemeteries within the Town or under the control of
the Town shall be accessible to visitors only during daylight hours.
E.
The Town of Seneca Falls is not responsible for any
injury or inconvenience sustained by any visitor to a Town cemetery.
No person shall cut, break or in any manner
injure or destroy any tree, shrub or plant or pick, crush or gather
or in any manner injure or destroy any flower, either wild or cultivated
or the fruit or product of any tree, shrub or plant or catch, shoot,
wound or kill or rob, disturb or destroy any bird's nest or animal
or deposit any filth, waste or rubbish within any of the cemeteries
within or controlled by the Town of Seneca Falls.
No person shall injure, destroy, remove, deface
or write upon any monument, fence, stake, post or other marker in
or connected with any cemetery within or controlled by the Town of
Seneca Falls.
No person shall loiter, stroll, wander, prowl,
lurk or lie down in, about or upon any cemetery within the Town of
Seneca Falls.
Fees shall be as set by resolution from time
to time by the Town Board.
A.
Purpose.
The purpose of this section is to establish procedures for receipt
and disbursement of funds acquired by the Town of Seneca Falls which
relate to the operation and maintenance of the cemetery.
B.
Prior
funds. Funds received by the Town shall be held by the Town in a nonexpendable
Cemetery Lot Trust Fund.
C.
Current
revenues.
(1)
Proceeds
from the sale of cemetery lots, maintenance of unendowed plots, ash
burials, vault use and grave openings shall be recorded as revenues
to the general fund for the purpose of reimbursing such fund for expenses
incurred in the operation of the cemetery.
(2)
Proceeds derived from perpetual care of lots or plots bequeathed or devised to be held in trust for the care or improvement of the cemetery shall be recorded and maintained with the funds cited in Subsection B and shall remain intact in perpetuity.
(3)
Interest earnings on funds received in accordance with Subsections B and C(2) shall be recorded in an expendable trust fund. The Town Account Clerk shall, in December of each fiscal year, transfer such interest earned to the general fund of the Town for the purpose of reimbursing such fund for expenses incurred in the operation of the cemetery.
D.
Current
expenses. All expenses incurred in the operation, maintenance and
improvement of the cemetery shall be a charge against the general
fund of the Town of Seneca Falls.
E.
Review
of policy. It shall be the duty of the Town Treasurer to review this
policy and its impact on the general fund of the Town of Seneca Falls
and, on an annual basis, report such findings to the Town Board for
the purpose of reviewing rates set by the Town Board in accordance
with this chapter.
An offense against the provisions of this chapter
shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment
for not more than 15 days, or both.
