[CC 1989 §11-1]
This City's place of burial for the dead shall be known as "The
Webb City Cemetery," and it may be enclosed by a suitable fence with
gates, entrances and exit ways and be improved, enlarged or added
to as necessity requires, adorned and beautified as the City Council
may determine by the planting and cultivation of ornamental trees,
flowering shrubs and plants, grading, graveling, curbing, terracing
and walling, but not to exceed any sum as may be prescribed from time
to time by resolution of the City Council over and above the money
derived from sale of lots. All lots in blocks number 41, 46, 47, 52,
53 and 58, in the southwest corner of the cemetery, are hereby set
aside as a potter's field for free and charitable burial of indigent
deceased under permits to be obtained from the Mayor.
[CC 1989 §11-2]
All references in this Chapter to the City cemetery shall be
construed to include Wild Rose Cemetery which is a part of the City
cemetery.
[CC 1989 §11-3]
The Director of Public Works shall be the superintendent in
charge and control of the City cemetery.
[CC 1989 §11-4]
The cemetery superintendent shall have such powers and perform
such duties as may be prescribed for him/her by the City Council.
It shall be the duty of the cemetery superintendent to cut and remove
the grass and weeds from walks, driveways and all the lots not sold
in the cemetery and to maintain the cemetery in a tidy condition at
all times. He/she shall at all times keep the grave stones in proper
position and remove all surplus dirt and rubbish from the cemetery,
and he/she shall plant such trees and otherwise ornament in the cemetery
as may be necessary.
[CC 1989 §11-5]
The City cemetery shall be open from sunrise until sunset, during
which time all funerals shall be conducted, provided that no funeral
or burial shall be conducted or permitted on Sunday or any legal holiday.
[CC 1989 §11-6]
The conveyance of cemetery lots shall be by certificate which
shall be filled out and taken from a book of blank forms with stubs
and numbered consecutively on each certificate. Each certificate shall
be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the City Clerk who shall
affix the Seal of the City thereto. The date of such certificate,
the name of the person to whom issued, the number of the lot sold
and the block in which it is located, and the price received therefor
shall be noted on the corresponding stub and such stub shall constitute
a City record. Any such certificate, without other acknowledgment
of record, shall be good and sufficient title to the purchaser for
the purpose of a burial lot forever, subject always to the general
supervision and authority of the City Council and to the civil and
criminal jurisdiction of the City over the whole of the City cemetery
to improve, ornament, protect and preserve the cemetery and every
part thereof and to enforce obedience to this Chapter; and the stub
book and record of sales shall be kept in the office of the City Clerk
and preserved as a part of the City records.
[CC 1989 §11-7]
The City Clerk shall keep on file in his/her office a plat of
the City cemetery which shall at all times show the lots that have
been sold, the date of sale, to whom sold, and the lots remaining
unsold and the name and address of the funeral director.
[CC 1989 §11-8; Ord. No. 6549 §§1—2, 5-22-1990; Ord. No. 15-003 §§1—2, 4-13-2015]
B.
The cost of grave openings shall be three hundred dollars ($300.00)
on weekdays and four hundred dollars ($400.00) plus fifty dollars
($50.00) per hour on weekends and after the hour of 3:00 p.m. on weekdays.
C.
The cost of a permit and erection of monuments shall be fifteen dollars
($15.00), single; and thirty dollars ($30.00), double.
[CC 1989 §11-9]
Any person desiring to make an interment in the City cemetery
shall obtain a burial permit from the cemetery superintendent. The
City Clerk shall keep in his/her office an accurate register of all
permits so issued in which the numbers of lots, blocks, names of deceased
and dates of death and burial shall be kept.
[CC 1989 §11-10]
The City Clerk shall keep at his/her office a record of all
the lots sold, the date of sale, to whom sold, and the lots remaining
unsold; and it shall be unlawful for him/her to permit any person
to bury or cause to be buried any deceased person in the City cemetery
or any part thereof unless a lot for such burial shall have been first
procured from the City, and a permit for such burial shall have been
first obtained.
[CC 1989 §11-11]
All burials on the free ground or Potter's Field shall be contiguous
and compact as practicable with suitable respect to family burials,
deceased members of which shall be grouped together in one lot to
each family so far as convenient.
[CC 1989 §11-12]
All graves shall be excavated to a depth of not less than four
(4) feet below the natural surface of the ground and shall be refilled
only with black fill dirt or clean dirt reasonably free from rock,
thoroughly tamped with every foot of dirt filled in, and neatly molded
and smoothed and grass replanted.
[CC 1989 §11-13]
All graves shall be kept filled to a level with the surface
of the ground. All monuments shall have a concrete foundation at least
two (2) feet in the ground, and no monument shall extend higher than
the established grade after it is thoroughly settled.
[CC 1989 §11-14]
It shall be unlawful for any person wilfully to destroy, disfigure,
remove, molest, injure, mar, deface, throw down or destroy any wall,
fence, hedge, monument, tombstone, ornament, tree, flower or shrubbery
around or within any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground owned, used
or controlled by the City, or located within the City or to use any
such cemetery for any purpose other than a burial ground for human
dead, or to open, disturb or molest any grave or place of burial therein,
provided that this prohibition shall not include acts by cemetery
officers and employees, or public officials, in carrying out their
duties.
[CC 1989 §11-15]
A.
It
shall be unlawful for any person to in any manner trespass upon any
cemetery, graveyard or burial ground belonging to or located within
the City, or turn animals loose in or about any such cemetery. This
Section shall be construed to prohibit the riding or other presence
of horses, mules, ponies or similar animals within the confines of
any such cemetery, graveyard or burial ground.
B.
It
shall further be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle in said
cemetery or burial ground at a speed in excess of ten (10) miles per
hour, or on other than designated roadways open for vehicular traffic.
No person shall obstruct any path or driveway within the cemetery,
graveyard or burial ground open to vehicular traffic. No person shall
use the cemetery, graveyard or burial ground or any driveway therein
as a public thoroughfare or drive any vehicle through said grounds
except for purposes of making delivery in the cemetery or visiting
any grave site.
[CC 1989 §11-16]
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter upon lots and
graves of the cemetery or burying ground, provided that nothing herein
shall 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.
[CC 1989 §11-17]
It shall be unlawful for any person to bury or assist in the
burial of any deceased person in the City cemetery or in any lot or
place in which such burial has been made before a certificate for
the lot or place shall have been procured from the City for that purpose,
or before a permit for such burial shall have been duly obtained from
the City.
[CC 1989 §11-18]
[CC 1989 §11-19]
If and when the burial of any deceased person is made in the
City cemetery before a certificate for the lot or place in which such
burial is made has been procured from the City for that purpose, then,
unless relatives or friends of such deceased person shall purchase
a lot in the cemetery, the Cemetery Superintendent may, in his/her
discretion, take up, remove and reinter such deceased person in some
lot in Potter's Field or free part of the cemetery, provided, that
it shall be unlawful to take up or remove any deceased person who
may have died of smallpox or other infectious or contagious disease.
