[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Medina as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 12-8-1966 (Ch. 10, Art. II, of the 1965 Code)]
From April 1 through September 30 of each year, the Boxwood
Cemetery shall be open during the hours from 6:00 a.m. until 9:30
p.m.; and from October 1 through March 31 of each year, the Boxwood
Cemetery shall be open during the hours from 6:00 a.m. until 7:00
p.m.
At all other times, the Boxwood Cemetery shall be closed, and
no person shall be in or upon said cemetery grounds during such hours
as the cemetery shall be closed.
[Amended 9-25-1990 by L.L. No. 8-1990[1]]
Any person who shall be in or upon the cemetery grounds during
the hours when said cemetery is closed shall be guilty of a violation
pursuant to the Penal Law of the State of New York, punishable by
a fine of not less than $125 and not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
[Adopted 2-26-1974]
Flower containers or similar receptacles placed or used in said
Boxwood Cemetery shall be 12 inches or less in height, and no more
than two such flower containers or receptacles shall be placed on
any one grave.
No trees, shrubs, flowers or other vegetation shall be planted
at any place in said Boxwood Cemetery without written permission of
the Board of Cemetery Commissioners of the Village of Medina, New
York.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a snowmobile,
motorcycle, motorbike, minibike, all-terrain vehicle or similar machine
or vehicle either upon the roads, roadways and driveways or upon any
other portion of the Boxwood Cemetery.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate an automobile,
truck or similar enclosed passenger vehicle in the Boxwood Cemetery,
except upon the roadways and driveways.
It shall be unlawful for any person to operate an automobile,
truck or similar enclosed passenger vehicle upon the roadways and
driveways within said Boxwood Cemetery at a speed in excess of 15
miles per hour.
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter within the boundaries
of the Boxwood Cemetery.
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, place or suffer
any litter, papers, refuse or debris of any nature upon the ground
or any other place within the Boxwood Cemetery, except within the
refuse receptacles provided by the Board of Cemetery Commissioners.
It shall be unlawful for any person to wash, wax or otherwise
maintain any automobile or motor vehicle or motorcycle within the
boundaries of said Boxwood Cemetery.
No flowers or replicas of flowers contained within glass or
plastic cubes shall be placed or maintained within the boundaries
of the Boxwood Cemetery between April and December 1.
All flower containers or receptacles shall be placed upon the
surface of the ground, and no such containers or receptacles shall
be embedded or buried, either in whole or in part, below the surface
of the ground.
[Added 9-14-1976 by L.L. No. 12-1976]
No person shall possess any firearm within the boundaries of
the Boxwood Cemetery, except in connection with the conduct of a military
funeral or memorial ceremony.
[Added 9-14-1976 by L.L. No. 12-1976]
No person shall ride, lead, suffer or permit any horse, pony,
mule or donkey within the boundaries of the Boxwood Cemetery.
[Added 9-14-1976 by L.L. No. 12-1976]
All gravestones, markers or monuments in the Boxwood Cemetery
shall be erected upon a foundation, which shall meet the requirements
established from time to time by the Commissioners of the Boxwood
Cemetery.
[Added 9-4-1976 by L.L. No. 12-1976]
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully injure, disfigure,
remove or destroy any gravestone, monument, work of art, useful or
ornamental improvement or any shade tree or ornamental plant situate
in the Boxwood Cemetery or to remove from any grave in the Boxwood
Cemetery any flowers, memorials or other tokens of affection or other
things connected with them.
[Added 6-26-1979 by L.L. No. 7-1979]
A cement or metal enclosure is required and shall be used in
connection with all interments in the Boxwood Cemetery, except for
interments in the potter's field.
[Added 6-26-1979 by L.L. No. 7-1979]
All bodies kept in the vault at the Boxwood Cemetery shall be
removed therefrom and interred by the 15th day of May following.
[Amended 9-25-1990 by L.L. No. 8-1990[1]]
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation pursuant
to the Penal Law of the State of New York, punishable by a fine of
not less than $125 and not exceeding $250 or by imprisonment for a
term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
