This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "City of Auburn Cemeteries Ordinance."
A cemetery shall be deemed to include any place set aside or dedicated for the burial of the dead, and any burial ground connected with any church in the City. Soule Cemetery in the Town of Sennett, owned and controlled by the City, shall be deemed and considered a cemetery within the scope of this chapter.
No person shall bury or inter, or aid or assist in burying or interring, any human body within the City except in one of the cemeteries.
No person shall dig any grave or inter or disinter any dead human body in or within any cemetery in the City, or controlled by the City, without the written consent of the sexton or superintendent in charge of such cemetery and, in the case of a burial ground connected with a church, the consent of the church.
Purchases of cemetery lots in public cemeteries shall be made upon application and payment to the City Clerk, which payment, at the option of the purchaser, may be made in 12 equal monthly installments over a twelve-month period; provided, however, that no interment in such lot shall be made or permitted unless and until the purchase price for such lot shall have first been paid in full.
No person shall put up any fence, gravestone or marker of any kind at any grave, or dig up any soil in any of the public cemeteries of the City, without the approval of the sexton or superintendent in charge of such cemetery.
No person shall walk or drive any vehicle or other conveyance over or upon any lot or plot in any cemetery within the City, except upon or over the paths and roads therein laid out, or leave any vehicle standing in any road or path in any cemetery so as to hinder the free passage of other persons using such roadway. No person shall enter into or upon any cemetery except through the gates and entrances thereto.
No person shall use any cemetery as a common thoroughfare or public walk, and all visiting or traveling through or across any cemetery, except in connection with cemetery purposes or for the purpose of visiting a burial lot, is forbidden.
No person shall cut, break or in any manner injure or destroy any tree, shrub or plant; or pick, crush or gather or in any manner injure or destroy any flower, either wild or cultivated, or the fruit or product of any tree, shrub or plant; or catch, shoot, wound or kill any bird or animal of any kind, or rob, disturb or destroy any bird's nest; or deposit any filth, waste or rubbish in any cemetery within the City or owned or controlled by the City.
No person shall injure, destroy, remove, deface, or write upon any monument, fence, stake, post or other markers in or connected with any cemetery within the City.