The Cemetery Department shall be under the supervision
of the Trustees of the Public Burial Grounds.
[Amended 6-3-2014 by Ord.
No. 100-2014]
On or before the first Monday in February of
each year, the Board of Trustees for the Public Burial Grounds shall
meet and organize and choose a Chair and Clerk. The Clerk shall keep
a record of all proceedings. The Board shall, with the approval of
the Mayor, also appoint a Superintendent, who shall be under the direction
and control of the Board and be responsible for the care and maintenance
of all public cemeteries.
The Board of Trustees for Public Burial Grounds
shall make such bylaws and regulations, consistent with laws and ordinances,
as it may deem expedient in matters relating to public burial grounds
and cemeteries, subject to the approval of the Council and the Mayor.
All deeds and all subsequent deeds of public
burial lots made by the owners thereof shall be recorded by the Board
of Trustees for Public Burial Grounds in suitable books of record,
which shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable
times.
The Board of Trustees for Public Burial Grounds
shall have the right to make expenditures of appropriations made by
the Council for the construction of paths and avenues in such cemeteries
and public burial grounds and for the planting of and embellishing
them with trees, shrubs, flowers and other rural ornaments, or any
other purpose of construction, maintenance or improvement therein.
Any person holding, owning or interested in
any lot in a public burial place of the City may deposit with the
Treasurer a sum of money, to be determined by the Cemetery Board,
which sum so deposited shall be entered upon the books of the City
Treasurer and forever held as a fund for the purpose of providing
for the preservation and care of such lot or its appurtenances. The
person making such deposit shall at that time designate the name of
the cemetery in which the lot to be cared for is located, the number
and specific location of the same and the name of the person in whom
the title thereof stands, and the City Treasurer shall deliver to
such depositor a certificate of deposit setting forth the same and
the purpose of the deposit.
The income of each deposit under the provisions of §
11-7 shall be expended, under the direction of the Board of Trustees for Public Burial Grounds, in providing for the preservation and care of the lot designated in the certificate of deposit or the appurtenances belonging thereto.