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HomeMy WebLinkAbout3061_CCv0001.pdf RESOLUTION NO. 3061 A RESOLUTION OF THE CIMS OF REDLANDS ENTITLED: "RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE OPERATION OF THE HILLSIDE MEMORIAL PARK, A CEMETERY OWNED BY THE CITY OF REDLANDS, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, ` AND REPEALING RESOLUTION NO. 2591 The City Council of the City of Redlands does resolve as follows: SECTION ONE. Sale, transfer and repurchase of lots and crypts . (a) All lots sold within the bounds of said cemetery shall be used for no purpose other than the interment of the human dead. (b) The sale, transfer, or assignment of a burial lot in the cemetery shall not be valid until an entry of such sale, transfer, or assignment has been made upon the records of the cemetery. (c) Repurchase of Cemetery Property. (1) Ground Spaces. At the discretion of the Superintendent, ground space may be repurchased by the Cemetery Fund. Price paid by the Fund will not exceed one-third (1/3) of the current selling price of an equivalent ground space in Hillside Memorial Park, excluding Endowment Fee, or an amount equal to that received for the property the last time it was sold, whichever is greater. (2) mausoleum Spaces, am New area (Blocks P, Q, and R) : At the discretion of the Superintendent crypts and niches in this area may be repurchased by the Cemetery Fund for an amount equal to the sales price of the property the last time it was sold. (In- cludes Endowment Fee) . bo original area (Redlands Mausoleum) : At the discretion of the Superintendent spaces in this area may be repurchased by the Cemetery Fund. Price paid by Fund will be as follows: Niches: An amount equal to the price received by the City the last time it was sold. .Cr rpt s - $200 each. These, when available, will be sold for $300 each, This price in- cludes Endowment Fee. (3) A processing and transfer fee of ten dollars ($10.00) will be charged on all property returns and transfers. This fee may be waived by the Superintendent in instances where transfer or return of property is advantageous to the City. (d) A charge of $2.00 will be made for a new Certificate of Own- ership, to replace original lost or stolen, A signed statement, cer- tifyinq to such loss or 'theft, will be required. (e) The sale, transfer, or assignment- of a burial lot in the cemetery cannot be made after the natural interment has taken place therein, unless and in accordance with all existing laws, all bodies have been removed therefrom. (f) Prices of lots, endowment costs, interment charges, sales prices of resale merchandise, and other miscellaneous charges shall be established and adjusted as necessary under separate resolution, Each such resolution shall refer to this instrument as the basic authority for the enactment -thereof. SECTION TWO.- Vault, Monument and Marker Regulations (a) All markers shall be of first quality granite or bronze. Only flat markers of standard sizes set flush with the ground will be permitted. Exception: Above ground monuments not to exceed six (6) inches in height may be permitted by the Cemetery Superintendent only in instances where adjacent graves of one family have had similar monuments erected and which are in place at the time of enactment of this resolution. (b) Only one marker may be placed upon any single grave or crept® (c) Marker size permitted: Maximum minimum Size —Size Baby Grave, 18" wide, 30" long_ _ _ 6" x 12" 6" x 12" Baby Grave, 30" wide, 54" long. . . . . 8" x 16" 8" x 16" Ash Interment Space, 36" wide, 24" long_ _ _ . . . . . . 81` x 16" 8" x 16" Adult Grave, single, 36" wide, 108" 12 ` x 24" 12" x 24" Adult Grave, double, 7/2" wide, 108" . . . . . 15' x 36E' 14" x 30" (d) No bronze plates, inscriptions, or e-mbel-lishments of any kind, other than the regulation name plate will be permitted on mausoleum crypts. (e) No marker, or improvement of any kind other than the im- provements made by the Cemetery Superintendent will be permitted on any space or lot until all cemetery charges for that space or lot have Resolution No. 3061 -- Page Page two been paid for in full, No markers permitted in an "unendowed" area unless the $40 .00 per space endowment care charge is paid. (Above temp. "unendowed" area should not be interpreted to include uncared for section. ) (f) Signs indicating that a lot is for sale or advertisements of any description will not be permitted within the cemeteryT business vehicles and organization markers are excepted. (g) Papers and trash must be deposited in containers provided. Picnicking on cemetery grounds is prohibited, No dogs are permitted on cemetery grounds. (h) The Cemetery Superintendent is charged with the responsibi- lity of entering upon any and all lots or spaces to remove therefrom any objectionable material that has been placed thereon. W The removal of any flower vase, part or whole, which has been installed by cemetery personnel, from any grave in the cemetery to another grave in or outside of the cemetery by other than cemetery personnel is prohibited. All flower vases must be of an approved reversible type. No other flower containers will be permitted. (k) The placing of potted plants, glass vases, papier-mache containers, etc. , on mausoleum floors is not permitted with the fol- lowing exceptions : Easter, Mother' s Day, Decoration Day, and Christmas, and then only for a period of five days after the holiday. SECTION THREE: Veterans ' Plot.- Burial in the Redlands Hillside Veterans ' Plot is authorized for the following: (a) Any member or former member of the Armed Forces of the 'United States whose last service terminated honorably by death or otherwise. (b) Any citizen of the United States Vho, during any war in which the United States has been or may hereafter be engaged, served in the Armed Forces of any Government allied with the United States during such war, and whose last service ter-minated honorably, by death or otherwise. tc� I The wife, husband, -wtidow, widower, minor child and, in the discretion of the Cemetery Superintendent, unmarried adult child of any of the persons enumerated in paragraphs (a) and (b) above. (d) The burial of a parent of an eligible veteran with the veterar. in the Redlands Veterans ' Plot is authorized only for ash burials, Resolution No. 3061 - Page three A remarried widow or widower or a divorced husband or wife of a veteran is not eligible for burial in the Veterans ' Plot, Authorized representatives of the deceased veteran must furnish proof of his or her service connection by presenting honorable dis- charge or other posit-ive proof" if discharge is not available, SECTION FOUR: interment Regulations, (a) Laws of the State of California require a Burial Permit. No interment will be permitted without such permit. (b) Opening of caskets at the Cemetery is not permitted except in special circumstances -when approved by the Cemetery Superintendent. (c) Interments shall not be made in wooden boxes. Only concrete ' sectional boxes or concrete vaults with arched lid shall be used to protect the casket. in the uncared-for area of Section F, a burial without the protective box shall be permitted in destitute cases. (d) Double interments may be made only in a standard single space W x 10 ' ) . (e) Ashes may be interred in spaces already occupied by a body, but not more than two ash interments with a body, or three ash inter- ments without a body in a single ground space, One whole body and one ash interment may be made in one crypt. No more than two ash interments may be made in one crypt. . (f) The Cemetery Superintendent, subject to the approval of the City Manager, is authorized to cause the interment of any destitute person, the proof of destitution to become the permanent record of the Cemetery, Such interments to be made in the most inexpensive section of the Cemetery, (g) Interrments may be made from 9:00 A�M. to 3 : 30 PM, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon on Saturday® Interments made at other times will be charged for at overtime rates, Interments will not be made on Sundays, or Legal Holidays authorized City employees by the City Council, unless special advance arrangements are made with the Cemetery Superinten- dent. Authorized interments made or. Sundays or Holidays will be charged for at overtime rates, A 24-hour notice is required for all interments. Upon receiving such notices, the Superintendent shall cause all the necessary prep- arations to be made and work to be done in readiness therefor, at the expense of the mortician or person submittinq such notice, In the case of overtime, see the resolution establishing interment fees. Resolution No.. 3061 - age four (h) Hillside Memorial Park reserves, and shall have the right to correct anv errors which may be made in making interments, disinter- ments, or removals, or in the description, transfer or conveyance of any interment property. Corrections may include the cancelling of a conveyance and substituting and conveying in lieu thereof other inter- ment property of equal value and similar location insofar as is pos- sible, or as may be selected by the Cemetery; or in the sole discre- tion of the Cemetery Superintendent, by refunding the amount of money paid on account of said purchase. in the event the error shall in- volve the interment of the remains of any person in such property, the Superintendent reserves, and shall have, the right to remove and re-inter the remains in such other property of equal value and similar location as may be substituted and conveyed in lieu thereof. (i) Hillside Memorial Park shall exercise due care in making a disinterment and removal, but shall assume no liability for damage incurred to any casket, burial case, or urn in making the disinter- ment and removal. Disinterments for removal from the Cemetery will not be made unless authorized by the written order of a court of law. SECTION FIVE, Reports. The Superintendent shall submit to the City Manager on or about the first day of each month, a report of all cemetery transactions made during the previous calendar month. This report will be in the form prescribed by the City manager. SECTION SIX: That all other resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict here-with are hereby repealed. ADOPTED, SIGNED AND APPROVED this 7th day of August, 1973 . ATTEST,- avor of the City of edlands 7 6-elk_ �P44 APPROVED FOR FOPUM: Ij Deputy' City attorney Resolution No. 3061 - Page five