THE C I T Y CEMETERY CO. REGULATIONS
RESPECTING CEMETERY GROUNDS,
INTERMENTS, VISITORS & PERPETUAL CARE
1. CARE OF CEMETERY PROPERTY
The Jurisdiction of the Executive Director relating to the charge and care of all Cemetery Property is prescribed by Article 13 of the General By-laws of the Company.
2. REPRESENTATIONS AND COMPLAINTS
All representations and complaints and disputes between proprietors of lots in the Cemetery, shall be duly referred to and heard by the Executive Director who shall determine the matter at issue and all final decisions in such matters shall be conclusively determined by the Board of Directors or by a Committee thereof or by the authority of a court of competent jurisdiction.
3. FEES AND CHARGES
1. The fees and charges for the sale of lots for burial purposes, and for all services performed by the Company in its administration of the Cemetery shall be according to a schedule thereof posted in the office of the Company and signed by the President and Secretary.
2. Payment shall be made for all lots purchased or agreed to be purchased before any burial in or work on the same shall be performed, unless sufficient arrangement for payment is made in advance.
3. Accounts may be rendered in advance and in any event are due when rendered.
4. PLAN, LAYOUT AND SALE OF LOTS
The layout and sub-division of the Cemetery for burial purposes shall be according to plans on file in the Company office and approved by the Board of Directors.
5. All lots and grave sites in any particular area or section shall be sold only under the condition that the size, quality, design, or method of erection of any marker, headstone, monument, or other object thereon be as by order prescribed.
6. GRAVE AND INTERMENTS
1. No grave shall be dug except by City Cemetery Co.
2 .At least twenty-four hours’ notice shall be given to the Cemetery Office or the Executive Director of the requirement of a grave for burial purposes.
3.The vault or box for the grave shall be delivered on the site of the grave, or its dimensions communicated to the Executive Director, at least twenty- four hours prior to the burial.
4.No lot or gravesite shall be used for the interment of the remains of other than human beings.
5.No one but a member of his or her family shall be interred in the lot of any proprietor without the written permission of such proprietor being filed in advance with the Executive Director and Office.
6.*Cremated remains may be interred in a lot as follows: 3 in a single Regular grave, 2 in a single Husbands & Wives grave, 1 in an Um Garden grave, 1 in a single Veteran's Field of Honour Grave, and 2 in a single Babyland grave.
7. FUNERALS AND VEHICLES
1.Undertakers and Funeral Processions shall conform to the direction of the Executive Director in the conduct of funerals, interments, and all other matters in connection with the use of the Cemetery.
2.*Trucks, bicycles, motorcycles or vehicles other than automobiles shall not enter or be driven in the Cemetery Grounds except by permission.
8. RECEIVING TOMB
1 .After such date in the fall and before such date in the spring of each year, which date shall be determined and proclaimed in due season, all caskets and coffins containing remains for burial shall b e placed in the Receiving Tomb unless otherwise determined by the Executive Director.
2. Interments of caskets or coffins so placed shall be made in the following spring as soon as conveniently may be.
3. No casket or coffin so placed shall be re-opened or the remains therein removed except on the written consent of the Executive Director and the Medical Health Officer, or on the order of any authority of competent jurisdiction. See Section 16 of the Act respecting
Cemetery Companies,
R.S.N.B. 1952 Vol. 1, Chapter 26.
9. REMOVAL OF REMAINS
No grave shall be re-opened or the remains therein removed except on the written consent of the Executive Director or the Medical Health Officer, or on the authority of competent jurisdiction. See Section 16 of the Act respecting Cemetery Companies R.S.N.B. 1952 Vol. 1 Chapter 26.
10. EMBELLISHMENT OF GROUNDS AND LOTS
1. The embellishment of a lot or lots in any particular area of the Cemetery Grounds must conform to defined standards and specifications, and mounded graves, fences, hedges, benches, chairs, curbings, or boundary markers other than those provided by the Company are prohibited and may be removed.
2. Except in certain specified and permitted cases, all such work shall be carried out in the Cemetery by employees of the Company or by persons contracting with the Company.
3. No ironwork, fence, coping, edging, hedge or any enclosure whatsoever shall be placed on any lot. Such objects now existing shall, with the proprietor's permission or when dilapidated, be removed by the Company at its expense.
4. Shrubs and trees shall not be planted, trimmed or removed by persons other than the Company's employees. The entire control is reserved to the Company in every plant, vine, shrub and tree, whether planted by a proprietor or not, and the Company acting through the Executive Director may order their removal at any time when deemed advisable.
5. The Executive Director shall remove from lots all unsightly flowers.
6. No glass or crockery containers shall be placed on any lot.
7. Proprietors may on their respective lots place cut flowers or wreaths and cultivate
flowers as per specific lot rules.
11. PERPETUAL CARE OF LOTS
1. Such care shall consist in maintaining lots and graves level and in good lawn condition, unless otherwise ordered and by special contract with the Company.
2. The Board of Directors may and shall from time to time expend a due proportion of the income from the Perpetual Care Fund upon the construction and maintenance of avenues and paths in the Cemetery and on the Cemetery grounds in general and of any lot in particular which cannot upon reasonable effort be brought under a contract for perpetual care.
12. MONUMENTS
1. Except as in these regulations otherwise provided, a proprietor may erect on his lot a stone monument having suitable inscriptions thereon.
2. Any monument erected or standing within the Cemetery without the approval of the Board of Directors of the Company as expressed through the Executive Director may be removed at the expense of the proprietor in question.
3. All monuments, monumental work, and headstones must rest upon foundations, which the Company reserves the right to lay and construct, at the expense of the party ordering the work.
4. The erection and repair of monuments may be done by persons not connected with The Cemetery Company, but the workmanship and the grade of the lot shall be satisfactory to the Executive Director, and the proprietor shall be responsible for all unnecessary damage to the grounds and for clearing away excess earth and rubbish.
5. Materials intended for use on or about Monuments when brought into the Cemetery Grounds and not immediately used may be removed by the Executive Director at the expense of the owner.
6. The Directors, acting through the Executive Director shall have power to remove broken and fallen monuments, reasonable notice of their intention to do so having been given the proprietor at his last known address.
13. PERPETUAL CARE OF MONUMENTS
1. Contracts may be entered into between the Company and proprietors for the perpetual care of their respective monuments and unless otherwise ordered or by special contract provided, such care shall consist in keeping them plumb and clean.
2. The amount to be paid under any such contract for the perpetual care of monuments shall be according to the posted schedule of fees and charges of the Company, and all such funds shall be expended according to Section 1Oc herein above.
14. VISITORS
1. The Cemetery shall be open every day to visitors from 8 a.m. until sundown.
2. No dogs shall be brought into the Cemetery except upon leash.
3. No children under the age of 16 shall be permitted to enter the Cemetery unless accompanied by an adult or with the permission of the Executive Director.
15. The Executive Director and the assistants and other employees of the Company shall be the guardians and authorized to enforce these Regulations and particularly are authorized to lay complaint or information against any person liable to penalty under Section 31 of the Act Respecting Cemetery Companies, Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1952, Volume 1.
16. MISCELLANEOUS
1. Persons other than proprietors or the members of their families intending to perform work in the Cemetery shall make known their business to the Executive Director and obtain his consent to their performing such work.
2. No employee of the Company shall be offered by or accept from any visitor to any proprietor of a lot in the Cemetery any gratuity or remuneration for any service performed in the Cemetery.
3. These regulations or any portion thereof or any amendments thereto may be posted in one or more places within the Cemetery and at the Company Office.
These Regulations adopted and passed by the Board of Directors of The Cemetery Company this tenth day of July A.D. 1956.
Signed: _______________________ Signed: __________________________
President Secretary
17. SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
NB Cemeteries Companies Act
Member Companies of NB Association
Purchase price lists from Cemetery Companies
18. CONTACT INFORMATION:
Valerie Traer, President
506-684-2506
Donna Gray, Vice President
506-672-4309
Graham West, Secretary
506-850-1672
Stephen Jarvis Treasurer
506-672-5044
Ed Graham, Past President
506-388-3400