[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.
