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A. Memorandum required. The service provider seeking a permit under this article and, if the service provider does not own the property, the owner of the property where the emergency housing facility is proposed to be located, shall enter a memorandum of understanding with the City before a permit is issued and at the beginning of construction and/or operation of the temporary emergency housing facility. The memorandum of understanding will address issues that will protect the public health and safety of both the residents of the temporary emergency housing facility and the residents of the City. B. Minimum requirements. At a minimum, the memorandum of understanding must include information regarding: (1) Number of facility occupants. The maximum number o...

The following provisions apply to temporary emergency housing facilities and temporary emergency shelters: A. Location. Temporary emergency housing facilities and temporary emergency shelters must be located on property owned or controlled by a service provider granted a permit under this article. B. Quantity of units and phasing. Any temporary emergency housing facilities planned to have more than 20 shelters will take a phased approach to occupancy or development. (1) Phasing plans for shelter residents, service amenities, and/or other improvements will be detailed in the initial facility plan and MOU, including the proposed budget and staffing capacity of the service provider for each additional phase. (2) The initial phase may include up to 20 shelter...

This article will terminate and no longer remain in effect after April 30, 2029. Upon termination of this article, or revocation of a permit pursuant to § 9-358 , any person or entity operating a temporary emergency housing facility shall immediately remove all temporary emergency shelters, temporary support structures, support amenities and related infrastructure, along with all refuse, junk, and debris from the premises where the temporary emergency housing facility is situated. The removal of any building or structure that existed prior to the establishment of the temporary housing facility will not be required. Failure to remove such items as required by this section shall be deemed a public nuisance. The provisions of this section notwithstanding, th...

Any violation of this article, including a failure to carry out any of the terms and provisions of the memorandum of understanding, will be grounds for revocation by the Director of the Department of Community Planning and Economic Development of a permit issued pursuant to § 9-353 , and is a municipal civil infraction punishable by a fine of $500 which may be levied against the service provider and property owner, and/or any owner, president, legal representative, director, board member, or manager of the service provider or property owner. Each day of unlawful operation constitutes a new and separate offense.

[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Commission of the City of Kalamazoo 7-25-1977 by Ord. No. 1120 . [1] Amendments noted where applicable.] STATUTORY AUTHORITY Cemeteries — See MSA § 5.3165; MCLA § 128.1 et seq. [1] Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed §§ PS604 to PS604.21 of the Public Service Code, from which Ch. 10 , relative to cemeteries, was formerly derived.

The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:

CEMETERY Any cemetery owned or operated by the City and, where appropriate to the context, the word shall include the officials in charge of the cemetery.

GRAVE SITE Any area designated for the interment of a single body and shall include a crypt, vault, niche or any other burial space.

INTERMENT Includes the permanent disposition of the remains of a deceased person by cremation and interment, entombment or burial.

LOT Any area shown on the map of the cemetery as a single unit. It may contain any number of grave sites as designated by the cemetery.

MEMORIAL Includes a monument, marker, tablet, headstone, tombstone, coping, lot enclosure, or like devices.

PRIVATE BURIAL STRUCTURE Any tomb, sarcophagus, mausoleum, columbarium, or like structure erected by the owner of a lot or burial unit. Each burial space in the structure shall be considered a grave site.

All owners and visitors within a cemetery, and all grave sites sold, shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter, and any reference to this chapter in any document shall have the same force and effect as if set forth in full therein.

[Amended 9-7-1982 by Ord. No. 1268 ] It shall be the duty of the Director of the Department of Public Services to maintain and operate all municipally owned and operated cemeteries. An employee of the Department shall be designated the Superintendent of Cemeteries.

The City Manager is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regulations, consistent with the provisions of this chapter, governing conduct, work and other activities in City cemeteries and governing the operation, maintenance and management of such cemeteries, including fees to be charged. Such rules and regulations shall be subject to approval by the City Commission. When so approved, it shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of such rules and regulations.

All lots and grave sites shall be sold according to the map of the respective cemeteries adopted by the City Commission and full payment must be made before the purchaser thereof shall receive the certificate of ownership from the City Clerk. Fractions of lots may be sold, in the discretion of the cemetery.

It shall be the duty of the grave site owner to notify the cemetery of any change in his or her post office address. Notice sent to a grave site owner at the last address on file in the office of the Superintendent of Cemeteries shall be considered sufficient and proper legal notification.

A. All cemetery grave sites conveyed shall be presumed to be the sole and separate property of the person named as grantee in the instrument of conveyance; provided, however, that a surviving spouse shall have a right of interment in a lot or grave site when there is sufficient space. B. In all conveyances to two or more persons as joint tenants, each joint tenant shall have a right of interment of his or her remains in the grave sites so conveyed. Upon the death of a joint tenant, the grave sites theretofore held in joint tenancy immediately vest in the survivor or survivors, subject to the right of interment for the remains of the deceased joint tenant. C. A right of interment as in this section provided may be waived and shall be terminated upon the in...

Whenever an interment is made in a lot that has been conveyed to an individual owner by the cemetery, the whole of such lot thereby becomes inalienable and shall be held as the family lot of the owner, in which one grave site may be used for the owner's interment, one for the interment of the surviving husband or wife of the owner and in those remaining, the parents and children of such deceased owner may be interred, in the order of need, without the consent of any person claiming any interest therein. In the event there shall be no parent or child surviving such deceased, the right of interment therein shall go the next heirs at law of the deceased owner, as specified by the statutes of descent. Any surviving husband or wife and any parent, child or hei...