Rules & Regulations
SECTION 1
Webster Union Cemetery Inc. Webster, New York, and all property belonging there
to, shall be under the care and control of the Board of Directors who shall
regulate the sales and prices of lots therein, and make such Rules and
Regulations for the Cemetery as they deem proper, consistent with the state law
which this corporation is formed.
SECTION 2
A- Hours of the cemetery are from sun
up to sun down.
B- No burial shall be made in the cemetery or placement of
remains in winter storage vault,
without a permit issued
by the
Secretary of the Corporation, or other officer of the Board.
C- No permit shall be issued to any person who cannot establish the
right
of burial.
D- No animal or pet can be buried in the cemetery. New York State law
permits burial of
human remains only.
E- No permission for body storage or burial shall be
granted unless all lot
sales and interment fees are paid in full.
F- No grave shall be dug
in the winter, if the Directors deem frost, weather or any other condition
unfavorable.
G- All bodies left in the vault after May 15th, will be
removed and interred. If not entitled to burial in a family plot,
they will be
interred in a
single grave. The
expense of such interment shall be borne by those who caused the body
to be placed in the vault. Only such notice shall be given in this case as shall be
practical under the circumstances.
H- Before any
burial shall have been made in any grave or if all the bodies therein have been
lawfully removed,
the grave owner(s) may
sell or convey such grave subject to the prior approval of the Cemetery and of
the
New York State
Division of Cemeteries. Such approval shall not be granted unless the owner(s)
of such grave
shall have offered
such grave to the cemetery within two years prior to the application for such
approval,
in writing by
certified and regular mail, at the price paid therefore by the grave owner(s),
together with
simple interest at
the rate of four per centum per annum from the date of the deed to such owner(s),
and the
Cemetery shall have
failed to accept such offer within ninety (90) days after the making thereof.
SECTION 3
No person shall dig any grave, put up
a fence or object at a grave, or erect any structure at the cemetery except with
permission, and under the direction of the Directors at a meeting, and recorded
in the minutes.
SECTION 4
All monuments, tablets or markers shall be erected, only after due
permission, and under the direction of the
Directors, and shall meet the following requirements:
A- All must be erected at the head of the grave
or graves, except in the cremains section. However, the Federal Government
markers may be placed at the foot of the grave, flush with the ground on special
request.
B- All must be placed on concrete foundations,
having dimensions two inches greater in length and breadth, than the base of the
marker, and extended to a depth of three feet. No monument shall be more than
four feet above the ground.
C- All foundations shall be installed by the
Corporation, at cost to the lot owner, to be established by the Corporation.
D- Grave owners are
responsible for the maintenance of their monuments.
E- Two burials are
allowed in one grave if one is a cremain or if both caskets
are half the size of an ordinary
adult casket, or smaller..
F- Three (3) to four
(4) burials will be allowed in one full size grave if ALL are cremated remains.
No other combination will be allowed.
SECTION 5
No person shall willfully or maliciously destroy, mutilate, write upon, soil,
deface, or injure any monument, gravestone, stake, object or any other structure
placed in the Cemetery, or any fence or railing for the protection of the
Cemetery, except under the direction of the Directors or their agent. Violators
of this rule shall be liable for any damages.
SECTION 6
No person shall leave or cause to be left, any stone, dirt, or other refuse
matter within the cemetery except in such place of the directors or their agent
may designate.
SECTION 7
No planting of trees, shrubs, or evergreens shall be any where in the cemetery,
except with the permission of the
directors.
SECTION 8
No person shall wantonly or willfully remove, break, pluck or destroy any
decoration, memento, embellishment,
bush, flower, or plant, which has been
lawfully placed in the
cemetery.
SECTION 9
A- The directors reserve the right to remove, after
due notice to the lot owner, any effigy, decoration, memento, embellishment,
bush, flower, plant or inscription which has not been installed in ordinance
with these rules and regulations. The directors further reserve the right
to remove, after due notice to the lot owner, any decoration, memento,
embellishment, bush, flower, plant or inscription which has
not been installed in accord with these rules and regulations.
B- The directors further reserve the right to remove, after due notice to the
lot owner, any decoration, memento, embellishment, bush, flower, plant or
inscription which, in the opinion of the majority of the trustees or directors,
is unsightly, offensive or dangerous.
C- Holiday decorations may be removed by the Cemetery without (further) notice,
forty five (45) days after the end of the holiday.
SECTION 10
Only metal and plastic containers set at ground level for cut or artificial
flowers shall be used in the cemetery. No glass container may be used for any
purpose because of the danger of injury from broken glass.
SECTION 11
Decorations, mementos,
embellishments, bushes, plants and flowers (cut or artificial) for gravesites
shall not extend beyond eighteen 18 inches in front of monuments
and be no higher than four (4)
feet. Decorations, mementos and embellishments may include a maximum of two (2)
lights per grave, which may be solar, candle or battery powered, and be no
higher than eighteen (18) inches.
SECTION 12
No person shall excavate any earth, or alter the grade of any lot or walk in the
cemetery, nor remove any earth there from. No marble chips, gravel stones,
bricks, plastic, wood, metal or fiberglass liners shall be permitted.
SECTION 13
No person shall drive any vehicle into or on the cemetery property except
a
road maintained by the cemetery for this purpose. Cemetery roads may not be
maintained from January 1 to the end of that winter’s season,
dependent on weather conditions,
excepting a road providing ingress and egress directly between the public roads
and the cemetery office building. No unlicensed recreational vehicle is
permitted at any time.
SECTION 14
No person shall discharge any firearm in the cemetery except during memorial
services.
SECTION 15
No person shall catch, wound or kill any animal or bird, nor disturb any bird’s
nest or eggs there in the cemetery.
SECTION 16
No alcoholic beverages shall be possessed consumed or placed in the cemetery.
SECTION 17
Concrete vaults or concrete grave liners will be required for interments in all
graves purchased on or after January
1, 1985, in accordance with the provisions
of
cemetery Board Directive 202.6.
SECTION 18
CREMAIN BURIAL PLOTS - The 20
existing lots in section 3, rows U, V, W, X, numbered 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, have
been divided and lettered "A" for the east half, and "B" for the west half, and
all have been designated as Cremain Burial Plots. Each plot shall be 3
1/2 feet by 5 feet, and each may have 2 burials on a plot. Since the monuments
when erected will be 3 feet or less in width, they will be restricted to a
height of 2 feet or less. Monuments shall be placed back to back to leave space
for maintenance.
SECTION 19
No infants or small children may be buried in cremains section unless
cremated.
SECTION 20 The interment of
cremated remains will be permitted only in appropriate rigid receptacles made of
metal,
concrete, fiberglass, or plastic.
Disinterment of cremated
remains shall follow the same rules as for
disinterment of a body.
SECTION 21
All lot owners are required to notify the cemetery of any change of address. All
notices required to be sent shall be
sent to the last recorded address and such
notices shall be deemed adequate.
SECTION 22
Violations of the above rules and regulations shall be prosecuted as provided by
law.
Revised
8/1/2010
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