§ 10-28. Cemetery manager; qualifications, duties generally.

Supervision of the municipal cemetery system shall be under the direction of the parks and recreation director or the parks and recreation director's designee. The duties of the parks and recreation director or the parks and recreation director's designee, with regard to the cemetery system are as follows:

(1)

Attendance at cemetery. To be in attendance at the cemetery system administration office during the working day or have one (1) of his employees present in order to discharge his duties without delay.

(2)

Record of burials, entombments and inurnments. To keep complete and accurate records at the cemetery system administrative office of the names of the deceased, the subdivision, lot, section and plot in which the burial is made, or the mausoleum wall, row, and crypt in which an entombment is made, or columbarium wall, row and niche in which an inurnment is made, the date of burial, entombments, or inurnment, and the name of the funeral director conducting the funeral.

(3)

Examination of burial permits. To determine and examine burial permits and to refuse burial or entombment until such permit and papers shall comply with the state law and the restrictions of the city.

(4)

Exclusive right to dig and fill graves. To hold the sole and exclusive right in person or through competent employees selected and appointed in accordance with established city procedures or through a contractual agreement, to dig and fill all graves and to reopen and close a grave, a crypt or a niche upon request of a duly authorized and competent party after having received all required permits from the appropriate authorities, and do all other work required in the operation of the cemetery system.

(5)

Monthly and annual reports. To make monthly and annual reports to the cemetery system board of trustees, city manager and director of finance showing the total number of interments, entombments and inurnments with other pertinent information, including a statement of the lots, crypts and niches sold and funds received and deposited with the city treasurer.

(6)

Enforcement of article. To enforce and abide by the terms of this article or any other article of this chapter.

(7)

Aid public. To aid and assist the public in the locating of burial spaces, entombment crypts and inurnment niches or in interpreting the meaning of this article and to take such steps as are necessary for the protection and convenience of all funeral service attendees.

(8)

Duplicate plat of cemeteries. To keep a duplicate plat and record of each cemetery in the cemetery system, on which shall be shown all sections, lots or plots and subdivisions with the location, name and date of all burials, mausoleum walls, rows and crypts with the name and date of all entombments and columbarium walls, rows and niches with the location, name and date of all inurnments.

(9)

Record of plots, crypts and niches sold. To keep a plat and plat book of the cemeteries on which shall be shown all plots, crypts and niches which are sold or are for sale and a record made of the date, name of purchaser and the amount received for each sale.

(10)

Selling lots, plots, crypts and niches. To sell such lots, plots, crypts and niches in the municipal cemetery system as are authorized by the cemetery system board of trustees under the restrictions imposed by such board and at the price set by the city commission, and to issue a certificate of ownership of burial rights, entombment rights or inurnment rights upon a payment of the whole amount, naming such special restrictions as are not set forth in this article, signed by the proper city officials and stamped with the seal of the city.

(11)

Record transfers of certificates of ownership. To record the transfer of certificates of ownership of burial rights, entombment rights or inurnment rights from one (1) owner to another, after a request for transfer has been made and the appropriate fee has been paid.

(12)

Record in cemetery office certain transactions. To record in the office of the cemetery manager all owners' declaration of reservation for burial rights, entombment rights and inurnment rights with the signatures of the owners, the names of all proposed interments, entombments or inurnments, the individual's relationship to the owner and a complete legal description of the designated plot, crypt or niche to be used.

(13)

Collection of moneys. To collect all money in payment for lots, plots, crypts, niches, perpetual care, interments, entombments, inurnments, merchandise and for all services rendered by the employees of the cemetery system in the performance of their duties, and such moneys so collected, after being checked by the finance department, shall be deposited with the city treasurer who shall give a receipt for the funds received.

(Ord. No. C-90-102, § 1, 12-18-90; Ord. No. C-17-28 , § 46, 9-13-17)