[CC 2012 § 6.010]
The following described property to-wit: Beginning at the intersection
of the East line of State Highway No. 127, and the North line of the
Southwest quarter of Section 2, Township 48, Range 23, thence South
along said East line of said highway 930 feet more of less to the
North line of a public way known as Bruns Street; thence East along
the North line of Bruns Street 576.33 feet more or less; thence North
930 feet more or less to the North line of the Southwest Quarter of
said Section 2, thence 576.33 feet more or less to the point of beginning,
is declared to be the City Cemetery of Sweet Springs, Missouri; said
cemetery shall be known as Fairview Cemetery; and said cemetery is
hereby declared to be under the government and control of the Board
of Aldermen of the City.
[CC 2012 § 6.020; Ord. No. 836-3; Ord. No. 231; Ord. No. 519]
The City Cemetery shall be under the control of a Cemetery Board.
Such Cemetery Board shall consist of nine (9) members appointed by
the Mayor, with the approval of the Board of Aldermen, who shall qualify
for appointment by State statute. The terms for Board members shall
be three (3) years; provided, that the terms of the present members
of said Cemetery Board shall continue until the expiration of the
terms for which they were appointed, and the appointment of their
successors shall be made in such manner that the terms of three (3)
will expire on May 1, in one (1) year; the terms of three (3) others
will expire on May 1, in the next year, and the terms of the remaining
three (3) will expire on May 1, in the next year. The Mayor shall
be, ex officio, a member of the Cemetery Board.
[CC 2012 § 6.030]
The Mayor, with the consent of the Board of Aldermen, shall
have power to fill any vacancy existing on the Cemetery Board for
the period of the unexpired term of the vacant position.
[CC 2012 § 6.040; Ord. No. 836-4]
The Cemetery Board shall annually, within four (4) weeks from
the appointment of new members, meet and elect its own President and
such other officers as the members thereof may deem necessary.
[CC 2012 § 6.050; Ord. No. 836-5]
The Cemetery Board, subject to the approval of the Board of
Aldermen, shall supervise and direct all work and improvements done
or made on and to said cemetery or in connection therewith; shall
make all necessary rules for the improvement and care of the cemetery
and its appurtenances; and shall direct the settings of monuments,
tombstones and markers so that all monuments, tombstones, and markers
may be set in a uniform manner.
[CC 2012 § 6.060; Ord. No. 836-6]
All bills and claims submitted to the Cemetery Board for payment
shall, after approval, be a majority of the members thereof, be forwarded
to the City Clerk for approval and payment by the Board of Aldermen
in like manner as other bills and claims to and against the City.
[CC 2012 § 6.070; Ord. No. 836-7]
The Cemetery Board shall, with the approval of the Mayor, employ
a sexton for the cemetery. Said sexton shall be paid such salary and
compensation as the Board of Aldermen shall agree to pay. He/she shall
be under the direct supervision of the Mayor and the Cemetery Board.
The Cemetery Board shall submit the names of applicants for the position
of sexton to the Mayor not less than thirty (30) days prior to the
date of the appointment of a new sexton.
[CC 2012 § 6.080; Ord. No. 836-8]
The Mayor shall act as agent for the City in the sale and conveyance
of cemetery lots, which shall be conveyed by deeds and signed by the
Mayor and counter-signed by the City Clerk, with the seal of the City
affixed thereto, specifying that the purchaser to whom the same is
issued to the owner of the property as described therein by number
and block; that such property shall be used only for the purposes
of burial; and that the sale of said lot is conditioned upon the right
of the City to control and manage said lot in conformity with the
ordinances of the City and rules governing said cemetery. Such deed
shall be entitled to be recorded in the office of the Recorder of
Deeds of Saline County, without further acknowledgment; provided,
that no certificate of sale or deed to any lot shall be delivered
to any person or persons until or they shall have first paid the price
of said lot or lots; and, provided further, that no grave shall be
dug on any lot until the price of said lot shall have been paid.
[CC 2012 § 6.090]
The prices of lots, portions of lots and graves in said cemetery
shall be as follows: eight hundred dollars ($800.00) per lot and two
hundred dollars ($200.00) per grave.
[CC 2012 § 6.100; Ord. No. 836-16]
The north lot in each tier of lots in Blocks twenty (20) through
thirty-one (31) of said cemetery shall be the first lot sold in each
tier, and no lot in any tier of lots in said blocks shall be sold
until the sale of all lots north of said lot in each tier have been
consummated.
[CC 2012 § 6.110; Ord. No. 836-9]
All moneys received from the sale of cemetery lots or graves
shall be used for cemetery purposes only, and the deed to any lot,
portion of lot, or grave, when issued to the purchaser, shall be a
condition and covenant by the City that the money received in consideration
for such deed shall be used for cemetery purposes and for no other
purpose or purposes.
[CC 2012 § 6.120; Ord. No. 836-10]
There are hereby established three (3) separate funds for the
depositing of all moneys received for cemetery purposes, and said
funds shall be designated as follows: a) Cemetery General Fund; b)
Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund; and c) Cemetery Memorial Fund. All moneys
received by any person for cemetery purposes shall immediately be
paid into the hands of the City Treasurer for deposit into one (1)
of the three (3) above- named funds.
[CC 2012 § 6.130; Ord. No. 836-11]
The Cemetery General Fund shall consist of all moneys on hand
for general cemetery purposes, and seventy percent (70%) of the receipts
from future sales of cemetery lots and graves shall be paid into said
Cemetery General Fund, and such other moneys as may be so directed
by the Board of Aldermen shall be paid into said fund. The Cemetery
Fund shall be used for the general maintenance of the cemetery.
[CC 2012 § 6.140; Ord. No. 836-12]
The Cemetery Perpetual Care Fund shall consist of all moneys
and securities now on hand for the purpose of the perpetual care of
said cemetery, and thirty percent (30%) of all receipts from future
sales of cemetery lots, and all moneys received as gifts or contributions
to such fund, and such other moneys as may be directed by the Board
of Aldermen to be paid into said fund. All moneys which shall so become
a part of said fund shall be designated as the corpus of said Cemetery
Perpetual Care Fund, and such corpus shall be used only for the purpose
of investment, and the investment thereof shall be only such as authorized
by the statutes of the State of Missouri providing for the investment
by guardians of the estates of minors. The interest from such investment
shall be used for the care of said cemetery.
[CC 2012 § 6.150; Ord. No. 836-13]
The Cemetery Memorial Fund shall consist of all moneys and securities
now on hand for memorial purposes and all moneys contributed to said
Cemetery Memorial Fund. The assets of this fund shall be used only
for the permanent improvement of said cemetery.
[CC 2012 § 6.160; Ord. No. 836-14]
The Mayor and City Clerk are separately authorized and empowered
to receive gifts for the benefit of the cemetery and, upon the receipt
by either of them of any such gift, he/she shall issue to the donor
a statement as to which of the funds provided for in this Chapter
such gift is intended, and such receipt shall be a condition and covenant
by the City that such gift shall be used only for the purposes of
such fund as set out in this Chapter.
[CC 2012 § 6.210; Ord. No. 327]
No lots within the limits of the cemetery shall be fenced, nor
shall copings of concrete be constructed. No person shall pluck any
flowers within the cemetery, whether wild or cultivated, or mar, or
injure any shrub or plant within the cemetery. No one shall willfully
destroy, injure, deface, or remove any tombstone, monument, or marker
placed in said cemetery. No person shall shoot off or discharge any
gun or other firearm in said cemetery.
