Webster Union Cemetery
Rules and 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 15^th, 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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