All cemeteries which may hereafter be acquired by the City are
hereby declared to be the allowed burying grounds, and no person or
organization of persons shall establish any future cemeteries within
the City without securing a special land use permit for such use.
No person shall dispose, scatter, or bury any human body or parts
thereof, remains, or ashes in any place within the City other than
in public or private burying grounds. No stones, memorial marker or
tombstones shall be placed outside a public or private cemetery. This
chapter shall not apply to the regulation of the Lake Charter Township
Cemetery.
Any public cemetery established by the City, whether located
within the City limits or outside the boundaries, shall be governed
by the City Council.
Any private cemetery or burial grounds shall comply with the
following regulations:
A. The minimum land area of any private cemetery or burial grounds shall
be 10 acres.
B. The land shall be used for no other purpose, except a cemetery or
burial grounds.
C. All sides of the cemetery or burial grounds shall be adequately screened
from any residential area.
D. All private cemeteries or burial grounds shall provide a minimum
of two means of ingress and egress.
The Chief of Police, or any officer of the Bridgman Police Department,
is hereby authorized to enter upon or into any lands, premises, building
or structure within the City at all reasonable hours for the purpose
of inspecting the same to determine whether any burials or internment
has occurred, or whether the provisions of this chapter are being
observed.
Any disposal, scattering or burial of a human body, remains,
or ashes within the City, except in a public cemetery, is hereby declared
to be a public nuisance and the same may be abated and removed or
its continuance enjoined in any manner provided or permitted by law
for the abatement of nuisance. The term "burial" as used in this chapter
shall mean and include every disposition of human bodies, remains,
or ashes from cremation. The term "public cemetery" shall mean the
Lake Charter Township Cemetery or any cemetery acquired by the City.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed
$500 or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding 90 days,
or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court,
together with costs of prosecution, and in default of payment to 90
days.