[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Augusta
as Ch. 6.5, Art. IX, of the 1990 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 4-1-1996 by Ord.
No. 391]
The Superintendent of Burying Grounds is the Director of Parks
and Recreation or his/her designee.
[Amended 4-1-1996 by Ord.
No. 391]
It shall be the duty of the Director of Parks and Recreation,
or his/her designee, to take care of the public burying grounds in
the City, and to see that all graves are correctly arranged, made
of sufficient depth and properly filled.
[Amended 4-1-1996 by Ord.
No. 391]
The Director of Parks and Recreation, or his/her designee, shall
cause each burying ground to be laid out into ranges divided by walks,
the ranges divided into lots, the lots into graves and the graves
numbered, a plan of which shall be made and filed and maintained in
the office of the Treasurer or in the Department of Parks and Cemeteries.
All burials in such ground shall conform to the ranges and divisions
of the same.
[Amended 4-1-1996 by Ord.
No. 391]
The Director of Parks and Recreation, or his/her designee, shall
keep a record of the name, age, sex, and the range and number of the
grave or tomb of each person interred under his/her charge.
[Amended 4-1-1996 by Ord.
No. 391]
A.
The Director of Parks and Recreation, or his/her designee, shall
endeavor to make a written contract in the name of the City with some
responsible person to pay the City for the care of each lot and grave
from year to year at the price established by the Council, and shall
file all such contracts with the Treasurer.
B.
The requirements of this section apply only if there is no perpetual
care provided.
In any burying ground in which any Revolutionary War soldiers
or sailors, or soldier or sailor who served in the United States Army,
Navy or Marine Corps in any war, are buried, the City shall keep in
good repair all graves, headstones, monuments or markers designating
the burial place of such persons and shall keep the grass suitably
cut and trimmed on such graves during the summer season.
[Amended 6-19-1989 by Ord. No. 113]
The rates the City charges for grave lots and for the opening
and closing of graves shall be set from time to time and a schedule
of such fees is on file in the City Clerk's office.
The Treasurer shall keep account of all sums due the City on
account of burying grounds, including sums due for the sale and grading
of lots, and shall collect such sums from the parties liable.
A.
Any person owning or interested in a lot in a public burying ground
in the City may deposit in the treasury such sum as provided in this
article by the Council for the purpose of providing for the perpetual
care of such lot or its appurtenances.
B.
At the time of making his deposit, such person shall receive a receipt
therefor, signed by the Treasurer, and shall consent in writing to
be bound by the provisions hereof, which shall be written in a book
kept by the Treasurer for that purpose. Such deposit shall not be
withdrawn except by mutual consent of the Council and the depositor.
C.
Interest shall be allowed by the City upon such deposit, and the
same shall annually be appropriated in caring for such lot, under
the direction of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.
Cemetery lots shall be sold only to residents of the City or
heirs or legatees or devisees thereof.
All cemetery lots in Kling and Wall Cemeteries, except those
lots on A lane, shall be sold only to persons making payment for perpetual
care, upon purchase of lots.
A.
If a person contracts to purchase a lot in a public burying ground,
and within six months of the date of such contract has not paid in
full for such lot, the City shall have the right to cancel such contract
and to resell all graves on the lot in which interments have not been
made.
B.
Monuments shall not be erected until the lots have been fully paid
for.
[Amended 9-17-1990 by Ord. No. 528; 4-1-1996 by Ord. No. 391]
The Director of Parks and Recreation is empowered and authorized
to promulgate and adopt after a public hearing rules and regulations
for the operation and maintenance of all cemeteries owned and/or maintained
by the City, which rules and regulations will provide for penalties
for the violation of same. The above referred to rules and regulations
must be accepted by the City Council by Council order before they
can be implemented and made final.
