[CC 1989 §11-1]
This City's place of burial for the dead shall be known as "The Webb City Cemetery," and it may be enclosed by a suitable fence with gates, entrances and exit ways and be improved, enlarged or added to as necessity requires, adorned and beautified as the City Council may determine by the planting and cultivation of ornamental trees, flowering shrubs and plants, grading, graveling, curbing, terracing and walling, but not to exceed any sum as may be prescribed from time to time by resolution of the City Council over and above the money derived from sale of lots. All lots in blocks number 41, 46, 47, 52, 53 and 58, in the southwest corner of the cemetery, are hereby set aside as a potter's field for free and charitable burial of indigent deceased under permits to be obtained from the Mayor.
[CC 1989 §11-2]
All references in this Chapter to the City cemetery shall be construed to include Wild Rose Cemetery which is a part of the City cemetery.
[CC 1989 §11-3]
The Director of Public Works shall be the superintendent in charge and control of the City cemetery.
[CC 1989 §11-4]
The cemetery superintendent shall have such powers and perform such duties as may be prescribed for him/her by the City Council. It shall be the duty of the cemetery superintendent to cut and remove the grass and weeds from walks, driveways and all the lots not sold in the cemetery and to maintain the cemetery in a tidy condition at all times. He/she shall at all times keep the grave stones in proper position and remove all surplus dirt and rubbish from the cemetery, and he/she shall plant such trees and otherwise ornament in the cemetery as may be necessary.
[CC 1989 §11-5]
The City cemetery shall be open from sunrise until sunset, during which time all funerals shall be conducted, provided that no funeral or burial shall be conducted or permitted on Sunday or any legal holiday.
[CC 1989 §11-6]
The conveyance of cemetery lots shall be by certificate which shall be filled out and taken from a book of blank forms with stubs and numbered consecutively on each certificate. Each certificate shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the City Clerk who shall affix the Seal of the City thereto. The date of such certificate, the name of the person to whom issued, the number of the lot sold and the block in which it is located, and the price received therefor shall be noted on the corresponding stub and such stub shall constitute a City record. Any such certificate, without other acknowledgment of record, shall be good and sufficient title to the purchaser for the purpose of a burial lot forever, subject always to the general supervision and authority of the City Council and to the civil and criminal jurisdiction of the City over the whole of the City cemetery to improve, ornament, protect and preserve the cemetery and every part thereof and to enforce obedience to this Chapter; and the stub book and record of sales shall be kept in the office of the City Clerk and preserved as a part of the City records.
[CC 1989 §11-7]
The City Clerk shall keep on file in his/her office a plat of the City cemetery which shall at all times show the lots that have been sold, the date of sale, to whom sold, and the lots remaining unsold and the name and address of the funeral director.
[CC 1989 §11-8; Ord. No. 6549 §§1—2, 5-22-1990; Ord. No. 15-003 §§1—2, 4-13-2015]
A. 
The following prices shall be charged for cemetery lots and grave rights in the City cemetery:
1. 
Resident purchasers.
a. 
Single grave space — two hundred dollars ($200.00).
2. 
Non-resident purchasers.
a. 
Single grave space — two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00).
B. 
The cost of grave openings shall be three hundred dollars ($300.00) on weekdays and four hundred dollars ($400.00) plus fifty dollars ($50.00) per hour on weekends and after the hour of 3:00 p.m. on weekdays.
C. 
The cost of a permit and erection of monuments shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00), single; and thirty dollars ($30.00), double.
[CC 1989 §11-9]
Any person desiring to make an interment in the City cemetery shall obtain a burial permit from the cemetery superintendent. The City Clerk shall keep in his/her office an accurate register of all permits so issued in which the numbers of lots, blocks, names of deceased and dates of death and burial shall be kept.
[CC 1989 §11-10]
The City Clerk shall keep at his/her office a record of all the lots sold, the date of sale, to whom sold, and the lots remaining unsold; and it shall be unlawful for him/her to permit any person to bury or cause to be buried any deceased person in the City cemetery or any part thereof unless a lot for such burial shall have been first procured from the City, and a permit for such burial shall have been first obtained.
[CC 1989 §11-11]
All burials on the free ground or Potter's Field shall be contiguous and compact as practicable with suitable respect to family burials, deceased members of which shall be grouped together in one lot to each family so far as convenient.
[CC 1989 §11-12]
All graves shall be excavated to a depth of not less than four (4) feet below the natural surface of the ground and shall be refilled only with black fill dirt or clean dirt reasonably free from rock, thoroughly tamped with every foot of dirt filled in, and neatly molded and smoothed and grass replanted.
[CC 1989 §11-13]
All graves shall be kept filled to a level with the surface of the ground. All monuments shall have a concrete foundation at least two (2) feet in the ground, and no monument shall extend higher than the established grade after it is thoroughly settled.
[CC 1989 §11-14]
It shall be unlawful for any person wilfully to destroy, disfigure, remove, molest, injure, mar, deface, throw down or destroy any wall, fence, hedge, monument, tombstone, ornament, tree, flower or shrubbery around or within any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground owned, used or controlled by the City, or located within the City or to use any such cemetery for any purpose other than a burial ground for human dead, or to open, disturb or molest any grave or place of burial therein, provided that this prohibition shall not include acts by cemetery officers and employees, or public officials, in carrying out their duties.
[CC 1989 §11-15]
A. 
It shall be unlawful for any person to in any manner trespass upon any cemetery, graveyard or burial ground belonging to or located within the City, or turn animals loose in or about any such cemetery. This Section shall be construed to prohibit the riding or other presence of horses, mules, ponies or similar animals within the confines of any such cemetery, graveyard or burial ground.
B. 
It shall further be unlawful for any person to drive any vehicle in said cemetery or burial ground at a speed in excess of ten (10) miles per hour, or on other than designated roadways open for vehicular traffic. No person shall obstruct any path or driveway within the cemetery, graveyard or burial ground open to vehicular traffic. No person shall use the cemetery, graveyard or burial ground or any driveway therein as a public thoroughfare or drive any vehicle through said grounds except for purposes of making delivery in the cemetery or visiting any grave site.
[CC 1989 §11-16]
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter upon lots and graves of the cemetery or burying ground, provided that nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit any person having lawful business in the cemetery in connection with improvement thereof or persons visiting the graves of relatives or friends from being in said cemetery in accordance with the rules.
[CC 1989 §11-17]
It shall be unlawful for any person to bury or assist in the burial of any deceased person in the City cemetery or in any lot or place in which such burial has been made before a certificate for the lot or place shall have been procured from the City for that purpose, or before a permit for such burial shall have been duly obtained from the City.
[CC 1989 §11-18]
All fines imposed and collected for violating Sections 145.140—145.160 shall be paid into the Cemetery Fund.
[CC 1989 §11-19]
If and when the burial of any deceased person is made in the City cemetery before a certificate for the lot or place in which such burial is made has been procured from the City for that purpose, then, unless relatives or friends of such deceased person shall purchase a lot in the cemetery, the Cemetery Superintendent may, in his/her discretion, take up, remove and reinter such deceased person in some lot in Potter's Field or free part of the cemetery, provided, that it shall be unlawful to take up or remove any deceased person who may have died of smallpox or other infectious or contagious disease.