[Ord. 2013-766, 2-4-2013]
No cemetery or burying grounds shall hereafter be established within the corporate limits of the City or without said corporate limits and within one mile thereof, nor shall any cemetery or burying grounds heretofore established within said corporate limits or without said corporate limits and within one mile thereof, be extended or enlarged, except as to the tracts of land described as follows:
All that part of the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 36, Township 20 North, Range 3 West of the Third Principal Meridian, lying east of the public highway, containing 5.13 acres, more or less. Also the S 1/2 of the southwest quarter 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of Section 36, Township 20 North, Range 3 West of the Third Principal Meridian, containing 20 acres, more or less, all situated in the County of Logan, State of Illinois; and,
A tract of land being part of the Northwest Quarter of Section 29, Township 20 North, Range 2 West of the Third Principal Meridian, Logan County, Illinois, described as follows:
Commencing at a point on the West line of said Section 29 which is 467.75 Feet South of the Northwestern corner of Section 29 and at the intersection of said section line with the southerly right-of-way line of the dedicated highway known as FA Route 5 (U.S. Route 66), thence North 89° 41 Minutes 00 Seconds East along said right-of-way line distance of 257.58 Feet to the true point of beginning, thence continuing North 89° 41 Minutes 00 Seconds East along said right-of-way line a distance of 162.87 Feet to an iron pin, thence North 00° 22 Minutes 28 Seconds East along said right-of-way line a distance of 9.99 Feet to an iron pin, thence North 89° 41 Minutes 00 Seconds East along said right-of-way line a Distance of 390.00 Feet to an iron pin on the Northwesterly right-of-way line of the Union Pacific Railroad (Formally G.M. & O.), thence South 41° 29 minutes 00 Seconds West along said right-of-way line a distance of 291.26 Feet, thence South 88° 46 Minutes 17 Seconds west a distance of 391.72 Feet, thence North 08° 25 Minutes 33 Seconds East a Distance of 215.88 Feet to the true point of beginning. Said parcel contains 2.339 Acres, more or less, all in the County of Logan, State of Illinois, which are excluded from the provisions hereof, and which described tracts of land may be lawfully used for the establishment of a cemetery or burying grounds or for the extension or enlargement of any cemetery or burying ground heretofore established, and thereafter maintained and used for such purposes.
Any person violating any of the provisions hereof shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $200 for each offense, and each day that any such violation shall be committed or continued shall constitute a separate offense and subject the offender to a like penalty.
[1960 Code § 7.12.020]
It shall be unlawful to make any interment or bury the dead body of any person in any place within the City; and whoever shall violate any provision of this section shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $25 nor more than $200 for each offense.
[1960 Code § 7.12.030]
Whoever shall hunt, discharge firearms, set off or explode fireworks, or otherwise trespass upon any cemetery or burying grounds within the City, or within or under the jurisdiction of the Council of the City, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each and every offense.
[1960 Code § 7.12.040]
Whoever shall remove or carry away, or shall wilfully, maliciously or negligently break, deface, destroy or otherwise injure any monument, tombstone, tree, shrub, plant, vase, railing, fence, gate or any other property, article or thing belonging to or placed or erected in any cemetery or burying ground within the City, or within the jurisdiction of the Council thereof; or whoever shall pluck any flowers therein, or trespass upon or maltreat any grave therein, or violate any of the established rules and regulations for the governance of any such cemetery, shall be subject to a fine of not less than $5 nor exceeding $100 for each and every offense; and shall also be liable, in a separate suit, for the cost and expense of repairing any injury or damage so done or committed.
[1960 Code § 7.12.050]
The sexton or other person in charge or control of any cemetery within two miles of the City limits shall, on or before the first Monday in each month, make out and furnish to the City Clerk a statement in writing, showing the number of interments made in such cemetery, during the preceding month, with the name, sex and color of each person so interred, the date of the death and, when practicable, and can be ascertained, the age, occupation, nativity and residence of the deceased; and any sexton or other such person neglecting or refusing to comply with the requirements of this section shall incur a penalty of not less than $10 for every such neglect or refusal.
[1960 Code § 7.12.060]
No burial or interment of any person shall take place in and from the City, nor shall the dead body of any person be removed from the City until a permit for such burial, interment or removal shall have first been obtained from the City Clerk.
[1960 Code § 7.12.070]
Such permit shall be issued by the City Clerk upon his receipt of the usual certificate of death, signed by: a) the attending physician in the case; or, if none, by b) one of the parents of the deceased; or, if none, by c) the nearest of kin not a minor; or, if none, by d) the resident householder where the death occurred; or, if none, by e) any reputable citizen cognizant of the facts and circumstances of the death; or, if the death be the subject of an inquest, by f) the coroner or other officer holding said inquest.
[1960 Code § 7.12.080]
The City Clerk shall enter in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose, a record of all burial permits issued, specifying the date of issue and to whom issued, together with all the items of information contained in the certificates upon which the issue of such permits is based; and he shall forward to the state board of health, at the end of each month, all of said certificates so received during the month.
[1960 Code § 7.12.090]
The transportation or removal of the bodies of persons who have died of smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria or other disease dangerous to the public health is forbidden within the limits of the City, except in conformity with the rules and regulations of the state board of health concerning the same. And no burial or exhumation of any body shall be permitted in the nighttime unless for good reasons, to be entered in full upon the record book above provided for.
[1960 Code § 7.12.100]
Any person who fails, refuses or neglects to comply with each and every provision of the last four preceding sections of this chapter shall be subject to a penalty of not less than $5 nor more than $100 for each refusal, failure or neglect so to do.