[R.O. 2011 § 250.010; R.O. 2009 § 93.01; CC 1981 § 6-1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to use any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground for any other purpose than as a burial ground or to be guilty of any unseemly, offensive or lascivious conduct within or about any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground. The provisions of Section shall apply to all cemeteries, graveyards or burial grounds within this City and to all such burial grounds within three (3) miles thereof belonging to this City.
[R.O. 2011 § 250.020; R.O. 2009 § 93.02; CC 1981 § 6-3; Ord. No. 83-72, 9-21-1983; Ord. No. 07-162, 6-11-2007]
It shall be unlawful for any person not acting pursuant to a burial permit to knowingly disturb any grave or burial site, including prehistoric human bones, unless the same be specifically authorized by the Mayor. Any person who may be digging, including persons using tools, machines and equipment, who shall observe bones, caskets or other indications of human burial shall cease and stop work and notify the Mayor. The Mayor shall cause the site to be investigated and shall determine whether such constitute a human burial and whether reburial is required. The Mayor shall be authorized to stop any work in which the disturbing of a grave or burial site is likely and may permit work to proceed upon conditions reasonably likely to preserve the human remains.
[R.O. 2011 § 250.030; R.O. 2009 § 93.03; Ord. No. 00-157, 6-9-2000]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to vandalize, destroy, mutilate, disfigure, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument or gravestone or other structure placed in any cemetery or any fence, railing or other work for the protection or ornamentation of any such cemetery or place of burial of any human being or tomb, monument or gravestone, memento or memorial or other structure aforesaid or of any lot within such cemetery.
B. 
Pursuant to Section 214.010, RSMo., any person violating Subsection (A) at or within a cemetery owned by the City of St. Charles shall be subject to a mandatory penalty of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each violation. Any person violating Subsection (A) at or within a private cemetery shall be subject to a mandatory penalty of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each violation. In addition to any other penalty, the offender shall be ordered to pay restitution for the damage or loss to the property.
C. 
Signs advising of the aforesaid one thousand dollar ($1,000.00) penalty shall be posted at any cemetery owned by the City of St. Charles. Owners or operators of a private cemetery are encouraged, within their complete discretion, to post signs advising of the aforesaid five hundred dollar ($500.00) penalty.