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HomeMy WebLinkAbout670_CCv0001.pdf RESOLUTION N0. & 70 The City Council of the City of Redlands in regular session held on the fh day of C ..n U ('.4 1950, hereby adopts the following rules and regulations to govern the operation of the Hillside Cemetery and the sale of properties for the purposes of interment of human dead therein; and repealing all rules and regulations previously established except as noted herein. A Cemetery Superintendent, appointed by the City Manager, with the approval of the City Council, shal1 be responsible for the maintenance, operation, supervision, and property sales of The Hillside Cemetery, and shall function in that capacity under the following rules and regulations. SALT: OF IAM 1. All lots sold within the bounds of said cemetery shall be used for no purpose other than the interment of the human dead. 2. 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 irlde upon the records of the cemetery. 3. The sale, transfer, or assignment of a. burial lot in the cemetery cannot be made after natural interment has taken pls:ce therein, unless and in accordance with all existing lags, all bodies have been removed therefrom. 4. Signs indicating; that a lot is for sale or advertisements of any description will not be permitted within the cemetery, businese vehicles and organization markers to be excepted. 5. Prices of lots, endowment costso interment charges, sales prices of re— sale 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. VAULTS. MONMIENTS AND bIA b. All vaults to be constructed, monuments to be erected, markers to be set or other improvements to be made, shall be subject to the control and direction of the City Council, reserving the right to withhold the monument or vault 7. All vaults, monuments and markers shall be of first quality granite. Exception hereto may be secured only through council action. 8. Only one monument or marker may be placed upon any single grave space or crypt. Ashes having separate markers must have separate spaces on crypts. 9. No bronze plate or embelliel-ment of any kind, other than the regulation name plate -will be permitted on mausoleum crypts. 10. No marker, monument, or improvement of any kind other than the improve- ments made by the cemetery will be permitted on any space or lot until all cemetery charge-- for that space or lot have been paid for in full. 11. The Superintendent shall be charged vi.th the responsibility of entering upon any and all lots or spaces and to remove or have removed therefrom any objectionable material that may have been placed thereon. TERM19 12. Lags of California require a burial certificate and no interment will be made without such permit. 13. No interment shall be made in wooden grave boxes; concrete or metal bcxes shall be used to protect the casket. 14• The interment of more than one body in a grave or crypt sha.11 not be permitted except in case of mother and infant, -where interred together. 15. Ashes may be interred in spaces already occupied by a body, but not more than two ashes with a body or three ashes without a body in a single space. Mzrkers for multiple burials governed by paragraph eight. 16. The owners of lots are prohibited from accepting remuneration for interments made in their grounds. 17. The Superintendent is authorized to cause the interment of any destitute person, the expense to be: borne by a fund for that purpose designated as the indigent fund. Proof of destitution to become a. part of the permanent record of the cemetery. Such interments to be made in the cheapest section of the cemetery. 18. Twenty-four (2/+) hours notice must be given to the Superintendent for any and all interments. Upon receiving such notice' the Superintendent shall cause the necessary preparations to be m?_de end work to be done in readiness therefor at the expense of the mortician or person submitting such notice. All funerals must be held between the hours of eight (8) A. M. and three-thirty (3:30 P. M. No funerals held on Sundays or Holidays. In event a scheduled funeral arrives at the cemetery gate after 3030 P. M. the mortician in charge shall be liable for an overtime charge of Ten Dollars ($10.00) payable within thirty (30) days. 19. The presentation of necessary vouchers must first be presented before any person is interred in the plot designated as the 'Veterans of American Wars Plot. 20. Regulations and restrictions governing interment of veterans as adopted 13 December,, 1939, shall remain in effect. GENERAL PLE214t TIONS 21. All matters of controversy between the Cemetery Superintendent and any past of the second part shall be referred to the City Manager. 2Z. Papers and trash must be deposited in containers provided. Picnicing on cemetery grounds is prohibited. 23. The Superintendent shall submit or cause to be submitted to the City Manager on or trout the first day of each month, a report of all transactions made during the previous calendar month. This reper t shall include a complete financial report and a suomw.ry of all projects within the jurisdiction of the Cemetery Superintendent. 24. The City Council of the City of Redlands may, by resolution, at any time make such additional rules and regulations or modify or amend these rules and regulations for the government, improvement and embellishment of the grounds of said cemetery as it may deem requisite and proper to secure and promote the general interests of the cemetery. Mawice Clapp, Mayor h. R. Whaley, City Clerk ATTEST I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the City Council of the City of Redlands at a regular meeting held on the day of January., 1950. H. R. Whaley, City Clerk.