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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1584 RESOLUTION NO.1584 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 1129 AS RELATES TO RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF IVY GREEN CEMETERY. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON: That Resolution No. 1129 be rescinded and that rules and regulations for the operation of Ivy Green Cemetery be adopted and approved by this resolution as follows: IVY GREEN CEMETERY RULES AND REGULATIONS 1. No burial shall be permitted without a permit from the City Health Officer. 2. No disinterment shall be made without the authority of the City Health Officer and the lot owner or on court order. Costs of disinterment are as follows: Adult $75.00 Infant $30.00 Urn $15.00 3. Only one interment shall be made in any one grave. (Except urns.) 4. Soliciting for monumental or other kind of work will not be permitted inside the cemetery. 5. Burials on Sundays and holidays, or after 5:00 P.M. on weekdays, will not be permitted except as directed by the City Health Officer in emergencies. 6. To secure a proper harmony of development, the planting or removal of trees, shrubbery and flowers shall be under the control of the Sexton. 7. The construction of foundations for monuments, cement walls, or markers, and the setting of all markers, shall be done by the employes of the cemetery and a reasonable charge made there- for. The cement bases of all grave markers shall be flush with the ground and be so installed that grass may be cut by power -1- No work of any kind shall be done in the permanent care section without the authority of the Sexton, and no extension shall be placed on any marker or headstone in permanent care section. Cement flat work to be charges @ 75¢ per square foot; Cement base for monuments @ $25.00 plain; Double cement base @ $35.00; Receptacle for base, $1.00. 8. Opening and closing of all graves and all labor in connection with interments shall be performed by cemetery employees at the following charges: Open and close grave (adult) $75.00 Open and close grave (infant) $25.00 Open and close for interment of urn $12.00 9. Care of graves: Service includes water, trimming and mowing for one season, and is maintained by the City upon request of the owner of the lot and on the following schedule: Raise: $10.00 per grave Water, trim and mow 1 grave $ 5.00 Water, trim and mow 2 graves $10.00 Water, trim and mow 4 graves $15.00 Water, trim and mow 8 graves $22.50 Seeding: one season 25¢/sq. foot Water only: $ 1.50 per grave 10. Cement liners shall be required in all graves and may be furnished by the City of Bremerton at a cost of $65.00 for each liner. No wooden boxes shall be allowed, except to the United States Government as provided in Resolution No. 564. 11. Charges for perpetual care: Infant grave $35.00 Adult grave $150.00 Twenty per cent (20%) of the above charges shall be deposited for perpetual care. 12. Organizations and Fraternal Orders providing sections or care thereof for members only shall make special arrangements therefor with the City Council. 13. A plot of ground in Ivy Green Cemetery shall be set aside and designated as a place for minimum cost interments where such interment is wholly or partially paid for by funds supplied -2- by a recognized welfare agency, and such minimum cost interments shall be without curbing and without above-ground monumental work and concrete boxes shall be required. The City will accept as payment from the State of Washington or any subdivision thereof the amount allowed for such minimum cost interments and where such low cost interments are paid for by agencies other than the State of Washington or its subdivision, charges shall be made as follows: Infant grave $30.00 Single grave $80.00 Two grave selection $90.00 each Twenty per cent (20%) of the above charges, when paid, shall be placed to the credit of the Permanent Care Fund. In addition, there shall be paid to the City $35.00 for opening and closing such graves. Single graves shall be smaller than the normal size grave, and the two grave selection shall be larger than the single grave but smaller than the normal size graves. The charges provided for herein shall include perpetual care. 14. All above prices with exception of perpetual care are reduced by 10% if deceased was a resident of the City of Bremerton at the time of death. PASSED UNANIMOUSLY by the City Council, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication thereof this 13TH day of February, 1974. GLENN K. JARSTAD ATTEST: G. C. YEADON, SR., City Clerk - 3 -