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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Regulating Cemetery, Repealing Ordinance 557, 739 i ORDINANCE NO. 825 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE CONTROL AND OPERATION OF THE AME� MUNICIPAL CEMETERY, THE RULES AND REGULATIONS THEREOF AND ` REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 557, 739 AND ALL OTHER ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AMES, IOWA: Section 1. Operation of Cemetery. The city manager shall have charge of the operation of the Ames Municipal Cemetery in accordance with such rules I and regulations therefor as may be adopted by the city council. Section 2. Cemetery Superintendent. The city manager shall appoint a cemetery superintendent who shall operate the cemetery in accordance with the rules and regulations therefor and under the direction of the city manager. He shall supervise the opening of all graves and be present at every interment in the cemetery. He shall keep an accurate record of all interments and furnish the City Clerk with a duplicate record thereof. He shall be responsible for the maintenance of the Cemetery.buildings, grounds and equipment and shall make a monthly report of the cemetery operatio lL to the city manager. Section 3. Records. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to make and keep a permanent record of all interments made in the Ames Municipal Cemetery, which record shall at all times be open to the public inspection. The record shall, among other things, include: i (a) An accurate plat of the cemetery. (b) The names of the owners of all lots that have been sold. (c) The correct description of all lots for sale and the price thereof, as shall be fixed by the city council. ;i (d) The exact location of each grave upon each cemetery lot. (e) A copy of the certificate of death on the form as provided by the state board of health. i Section 4. Sale of Lots. The sale of all lots in the Ames Municipal Cemetery shall be evidenced by a deed signed and executed by the mayor and the city clerk for and on behalf of the said c}ty, and it shall be the duty of the city clerk to collect the purchase price for any lot sold before delivering the deed of i conveyance for the same, of which purchase price a portion of the sale price, as specified by the rules and regulations established by the city council of the City of Ames, Iowa, shall be set aside and deposited in the perpetual care endowment fund of the Ames Municipal Cemetery. Section 5. Fees, Charges and Payments. The payment: of all fees and charges shall be made at the office of the city clerk in the city hall, city of Ames Iowa, where receipts will be issued for all amounts pa}d. Said fees and charges shall be based upon the charges as set out in the rules and regulations then in effect as adopted by the city council of the City of Arne s, Story County, Iowa. Section 6. Upkeep and Care of Cemetery. (a) The term "perpetual care" shall be construed to mean the obligation which the city assumes to each year expend the net annual income on the perpetual care endowment set aside for the lot in furnishing such care as mewing grass, raking and cleaning lot and adjacent alleys, filling of sunken graves and keeping monumental work in vertical position. Where the income is alfficient it may be used in the perpetual care of avenues, alleys, fences, buildings and grounds in 1 general. Expenditures shall be Trade at the discretion and under the direction of the city manager and that the city shall not be bound to make any separate investment of the sum of money f the de and thetual care, but the same proceeds therefrom used by added to the perpetual care fund Y the city in the manner heretofore provided. Section 7. Perpetual Care on Future Lot Sales. All future lot sales in ed for, the Ames Municipal Cemetery shae audlat onswithp as adopted bythevceretual care t y council at the rates specified in the rules and re g I of the City of Ames, under and by virtue of the terms of this ordinance. Owners of lots Section 8. Cemetery Lots Not Having Perpetual oCare. lots or parts of lots or other interested persons may secure perpetual rare in the older portions of the cemee not at the lng rates rspecifiedein theual care by trules and reg- he payment to I the city of the perpetual care charges I! ulations. !Ii Section 9. Annual Care. An annual care charge as specified in the rules __--- i those lots in and regulations shall be made by the city on the older portions o the cemetery which are not at present under perpetual or endowed care. The ermit pity reserves the right to refuse to furnish e lots intenance s not under perpetual orervice, or oendowedthe, erection of any monumental work such those I, care or when the annual care on such lot has not been paid in advance. Section 10. Interments in Catholic Section, The written permission of the past of St. Ceci.lia' s Church, Inc. , of Ames, Iowa, is required before an I P in the portion of the cemetery set aside for Catholic interment may be made burials, Section 11. Rules and Regulations. The rules and regulations of the m timeo time by the Ames Municipal Cemetery as adopted and amended ordinance. Copiestof these rules and icity council are hereby made a part of this regulations are on file in the office of the city clerk and may be obtained upon request at such office. Section 12. Repeal. Ordinance Nos. 557 and 739 and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 13. This ordinance shall be in full force and effee�t from and afte its passage and publication as provided by law. I Passed this 22nd day of November, 1955. I I. p. Lawlor, Mayor J. W. Prather, City Clerk ed b Smith and seconded by Bolton that Ordinance No. 825 be passed on its Mov y first reading. Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart I Moved by Judge and seconded be Bliss that the rules and and third readings and Ordnance of ordinances be suspended, the s No. 825 be placed on its final passage, Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss 1Ii Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart II ass. IIMoved by Bliss and seconded by Judge that Ordinance No. 825 do now p fi Voting Aye: Griffith, Judge, Smith, Bolton and Bliss Voting Nay: None Absent: De Hart Mayor Pro Tem Griff Uh declared Ordinance No. 825 duly adopted. I, J. W. Prather, City Clerk of the City of Ames, Iowa, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 824 was duly and properly passed at a meeting of the City Council on the 22nd day of November, 1955 and published by codifying on the '( day of Cexc , 194 . +J 71) J. W. Prather, City Clerk oI