HomeMy WebLinkAbout746 RESOLUTION NO.
BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton
t~Sthat Resolutions Nos. 517 and 524 be rescinded and that rules
and regulations ~for the operation of Ivy Green Cemetery be
adopted by this resolution as follows.
IVM GREEN CE~Y
RU~.W~ AND REGULATIONS
1. No burial shall be permitted Without a permit from the
City Health Officer.
2. No disinterment shall be msde without the authority of
the City Health Officer and the lot owner, or on court order.
(Cost of disinterment $20.00)
3. 0nly 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.~i. 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 Sex~no
7. The construction of foundations for monuments, cement
w~ls, or markers, and the sett~ug of all m~rkers, shall be done
by the employees of the Cemetery s~d a reasonable charge made
therefor. No work of any kind to be done in permanent care section
without authority of Sexton, no extensions, to be placed on any
marker or headstone in permanent c~re section.
Cement flat work to be charged @ $0.35 per square foot
Cement wall installations ~ .65 per running foot
Cement base for man;~_ments @ 10.00 plain; $11.00 receptacle
8. Open and closing of all graves and all labor in connection
with interments shall be performed by Cemetery employees.
Open and close grave $20.00 Infant Grave $5.00
Urns containing ashes - open and close $2.00
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: $4.00 per grave. Water, trimming and
mowing 2 graves $8.00.
Seeding: 15~ per square foot. Water, trimming
and mowing 4 graves $12.00.
Water only: $2.50 per 2 grave lot. Water, trimming
and mowing 8 graves $18.OO.
10. Cement liners shall be required in all g~aves, no wooden
boxes allowed, except to U.S. Government, see Resolution 564.
ll. Charges for perpetual care section:
i grave $50.00 deposit for perpetual care
25.00 for grave
$75.00 total cost
2 graves, I lot $1OO.O0 deposit for perpetual care
50.00 cost of grave
$150.00 total cost
12. Organizations and Fraternal Orders providing sections or
care thereof for members only, shall make special arrangements
therefor with the City Council.
13. It is declared to be the policy of the City of Bremerton
that all lots sold in the older section of Ivy Green Cemetery be
hereafter sold under perpetual care provisions with a deposit for
perpetual care of $100.00, and that the cost of graves shall be
hereafter:
One Grave $25.00; two graves $50.00.
One-half of the purchase p~ice of graves or lots shall be credited
to the Ivy Green Cemetery Sinking Fund.
14. That a plot of ground in Ivy Green Cemetery shall be set
aside and designated for minim~_,~m cost interments where the interment
is wholly or partially paid for by funds supplied hy a recognized
welfare agency. Such minimum cost interments shall be without curb-
ing and without above ground monumental work and concrete boxes shall
be required. The following charges for such minimum cost interments
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shall be made:
Single grave ......... 435.00
Two grave selection ~5.00 each
The single graves shal'l 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.
PASSED UNANIMOUSLY by the City Council, signed by the Mayor
and attested by the City Clerk inlauthentication thereof, this
~h day of September, 1950.
L. "HUM" KEAN, Mayor.
ATTEST:
E.H.T. ME GOWA~[, City clerkj
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