[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Kinderhook 4-12-1988 by L.L. No.
2-1988 (Ch. 37 of the 1978 Code). Amendments noted
where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any place set aside or dedicated for the burial of the human
dead within the Town of Kinderhook or under Town control.
No person shall dig any grave or inter or disinter any dead
human body in a cemetery within or controlled by the Town of Kinderhook
without the written consent of the cemetery superintendent or governing
body of the cemetery.
No person shall put up any fence, gravestone or marker or decoration
of any kind at any grave or dig up any sod in any of the cemeteries
of the Town without the approval of the cemetery superintendent or
governing body of the cemetery and in accordance with cemetery regulations.
A.
No person shall walk or drive any vehicle or other conveyance over
or upon any lot or path in any cemetery within the Town, except upon
or over the parks and roads therein laid out, or leave any vehicle
standing in any road or path in any cemetery so as to hinder the free
passage of other persons using such roadway. No person shall enter
into or upon any cemetery except through the gate and entrances thereto.
B.
No person shall use any cemetery as a common thoroughfare or public
walk, and all traveling through or across any cemetery, except in
connection with cemetery purposes or for the purpose of visiting a
burial lot, is forbidden.
C.
Only passenger-type vehicles and other authorized vehicles required
for grave preparation, interment and perpetual care may be driven
within the bounds of any Town cemetery. Autos pulling trailers or
campers, motor homes, trucks (other than those classified as "pickup")
and motorcycles are not allowed.
D.
Cemeteries within the Town or under the control of the Town shall
be accessible to visitors only during daylight hours.
E.
The Town of Kinderhook is not responsible for any injury or inconvenience
sustained by any visitor of a Town cemetery.
No person shall cut, break or in any manner injure or destroy
any tree, shrub or plant or pick, crush or gather or in any manner
injure or destroy any flower, either wild or cultivated or the fruit
or product of any tree, shrub or plant or catch, shoot, wound or kill
or rob, disturb or destroy any bird's nest or animal or deposit
any filth, waste or rubbish within any of the cemeteries within or
controlled by the Town of Kinderhook.
No person shall injure, destroy, remove, deface or write upon
any monument, fence, stake, post or other marker in or connected with
any cemetery within or controlled by the Town of Kinderhook.
No person shall loiter, stroll, wander, prowl, lurk or lie down
in, about or upon any cemetery within the Town of Kinderhook.
An offense against the provisions of this chapter shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than
15 days, or both.
