Source: http://lakewales.elaws.us/code/ordinances_ch2_artvi_div2
Timestamp: 2020-01-26 19:17:10
Document Index: 81286332

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2']

Division 2. Burial Spaces, Article VI. Cemetery Administration, Chapter 2. Administration, Code of Ordinances, Lake Wales
§ 2-617. Deeds of conveyance.
(a) The mayor-commissioner and the city clerk are hereby authorized to execute deeds of conveyance on behalf of the city to the purchasers of interment rights in burial spaces within the cemetery, which conveyances shall be valid for all purposes as the act and deed of the city when the city clerk affixes the seal of the city.
(b) No deed of conveyance shall be executed before the cost of the burial space has been paid in full by the purchaser.
(c) All deeds of conveyance shall bear a description of the burial space in accordance with the cemetery plats approved by the city commission, the name and address of the purchaser, and the official book and page number in which the conveyance is recorded in the official records of the city.
(d) All deeds of conveyance are hereby declared to incorporate and shall be subject to all rules, regulations and conditions set forth in this article, and subject, further to such other additional rules and regulations, amendments or alterations as shall be adopted by the city from time to time. The reference to such rules and regulations in deeds conveying the right of interment shall have the same force and effect as if the same were set forth in full therein.
(e) The deed conveying interment rights to purchasers and the rules and regulations of the city now in force or which may hereafter be adopted, including modifications or amendments thereof, shall be the sole agreement between the city and the purchaser. The statement of any sales agent or employee of the city, unless confirmed in writing by the city manager, shall in no way bind the city.
(f) A certified copy of the executed deed conveying interment rights shall be filed with the city clerk who shall permanently maintain said copy in the official records of the city.
§ 2-618. Lot markers.
All ground burial lots shall be marked by the cemetery manager at the time of sale with a permanent metal marker which shall be embossed with the sales contract number and the date of sale. Lot markers shall be permanently mounted at the northwest corner of the burial lot.
§ 2-619. No easement granted.
The conveyance of interment rights in a burial space shall not grant an easement or right of interment to any owner in any road, drive, alley or walk within the cemetery, but such road, drive, alley or walk may be used as a means of access to the cemetery or cemetery buildings.
§ 2-620. Sale, transfer, assignment or re-subdivision.
(a) No interment rights in a burial space shall be sold, transferred, assigned or conveyed in any manner by the owner or his heirs without the written authorization of the city and the payment of a fifty-dollar transfer fee.
(b) The re-subdivision of any burial space in any manner is prohibited.
(c) The city is authorized to repurchase an unused burial space for the same price at which it was originally sold. No transfer fee will be required.
§ 2-621. Family burial lot.
(a) Whenever an interment is made in a lot for which the interment rights have been conveyed to an individual owner by the city and is held as a separate lot, it shall be indivisible, and, at the option of the city, the whole of such burial lot thereby becomes inalienable and shall be held as the family burial lot of the owner in which one (1) grave may be used for the owner's interment and one (1) for the interment of the surviving spouse, if any, of the owner.
(b) In the event there has been no written order by the owner filed with the city designating those whom he authorizes to be interred therein, the parents or children of such deceased owner may be interred in such lot in the order of need without the consent of any person claiming any interest therein.
(c) In the event there shall be no parent or child surviving such deceased person, the right of interment therein shall go the next heirs at law of such deceased owner as specified by the statutes of descent of the state.
(d) Any surviving spouse and any parent, child or heir of a deceased owner may waive his right to interment in such lot in favor of any other relative of such deceased owner or of his spouse, and upon such waiver, the remains of the person in whose favor the waiver is made may be interred therein.
§ 2-622. Use of burial space.
No burial space shall be used for any purpose except the interment of human remains.
§§ 2-623-2-625. Reserved.