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Timestamp: 2018-06-18 23:18:55
Document Index: 364919590

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8', '§ 8']

City of Evanston, WY Cemeteries
§ 8-1 City cemetery.
§ 8-2 Administration and management.
§ 8-4 Burial permits required.
§ 8-5 Same application.
§ 8-6 Fees for opening and closing graves, etc.
§ 8-7 Application/contract to purchase lots.
§ 8-8 Contracts for sale of lots.
§ 8-9 Disposition of proceeds from sale of lots, etc.
§ 8-10 All lots and grave spaces sold to include perpetual care; regulation of selling price, use, of lots and grave space.
§ 8-11 Use and care of lots not under perpetual care.
§ 8-12 Contracts for perpetual care.
§ 8-13 Perpetual care trust fund.
§ 8-14 Rights in lots exempt from execution, taxation and assessment care and maintenance; payments for grave space with perpetual care not to be construed as payment for other services.
§ 8-15 Conveyance of lots owned by City.
§ 8-16 City clerk to keep books and records.
§ 8-17 Evanston City Cemetery and regulations.
§ 8-18 Violations and penalties.
§ 8-19 (Reserved)
§ 8-20 (Reserved)
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Evanston as Ch. 7 of the 1977 Code; amended in its entirety by Ord. No. 88-7. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable]
Chapter 8 : Cemeteries
The burial ground of the City shall be known and designated by name as the Evanston City Cemetery. The specific sections of the Evanston City Cemetery shall be known and designated by name as:
Public Cemetery (original section)
The administration and management of the Evanston City Cemetery shall be under the supervision and direction of the mayor and City council for direct and complete supervision of the cemetery in all matters. The mayor and City council may assign the functions of the cemetery administration, management and operations to another operating department or government agency.
It shall be the duty of the designated representatives of the mayor and City council, to take charge of the Evanston City Cemetery and improve the grounds thereof, subject to the approval of the City council; to dig or cause to be dug, all graves, required for burial of the dead therein, and to furnish the City clerk a full report of the same whenever requested to do so.
No person shall be allowed to deposit or bury any human body in any cemetery or place of interment within the corporate limits without first obtaining a burial permit of authorization from the City clerk.
The City clerk shall not issue a burial permit for the interment of any human body within the City Cemetery, unless the owner of the lot described in the burial permit or his agent applies for the same; provided, that when application for a burial permit shall be filed, with a statement that a Title to a lot is not desired, the body may be interred in the tract of land within the City Cemetery which is set aside for such purpose.
The City clerk/treasurer shall collect from those requiring the same fees for opening and closing each grave for an adult, for opening and closing each grave for a child and for disinterment of a body, in such amounts as shall be determined by resolution of the City council. Upon payment or tender of the amount specified by such resolution to the City clerk, the City council's designated representative shall issue a receipt for all money collected and retain such receipt for at least two years in the files in his office. All the foregoing fees collected shall be credited to the cemetery fund for the purpose of defraying the cost of opening and closing graves and general improvement and maintenance of the cemetery.
All persons who desire to purchase or obtain the title to one or more lots in the City Cemetery shall file with the City clerk a written application/contract setting forth the name and residence of the applicant, together with lots applied for as the same are laid out and described in the plat of Evanston City Cemetery on file in the office of the City clerk. Such application/contract shall be accompanied by the purchase price of each lot applied for and providing terms for payment.
The City, through the City clerk, may enter into a contract with any person to sell grave spaces, which contract shall provide that the purchaser shall pay twenty percent of the purchase price on the signing of the contract and the remaining balance shall be paid in twelve monthly installments, together with interest at eight percent per annum on the deferred balance, and the first such installment shall be due and payable on the day of the month following date of the contract. In the event burial and a contract shall be entered into with the City and the purchaser of the burial lot providing the terms of payment for such space together with perpetual care at the rate fixed by the resolution of the City council for single grave space with perpetual care. In the event the purchaser's contract becomes in default for a period of one year, after thirty days' notice given by the City clerk to the purchaser by first class mail to the last known address of the purchaser, the contract shall be cancelled, and the buyer shall be entitled to deeds to as many grave spaces as he has paid for by applying his payments upon the principal amount of the contract at the rate fixed by resolution of the council. Any remaining balance that has been paid shall be forfeited to the City as liquidated damages for the breach of such contract, and all rights, title and interest in the remainder of the grave spaces so purchased under the contract shall revert to the City, to the exclusion of any interest whatsoever in the purchaser.
The proceeds arising from the sale of lots and grave spaces in the Evanston City Cemetery, and all other income and revenue thereof; shall be exclusively applied, appropriated or used in improving, preserving and embellishing the City Cemetery and its appurtenances and to paying the necessary operating expenses thereof, and shall not be applied or appropriated to any other purpose; provided, that the City may use income and revenue for purchasing or acquiring additional adjacent grounds for cemetery purposes only; provided, further, that the principal of the perpetual care trust fund created by this chapter shall not be applied or appropriated for any of the foregoing purposes, and only the interest of income from such perpetual care trust fund may be used for any of the foregoing purposes for grave spaces for which perpetual care has been provided.
All lots and grave spaces in the Evanston City Cemetery sold to private persons shall be sold to include and provide for perpetual care. The City council may regulate by resolution the selling price, terms of payment, and use of lots and grave spaces.
No grave shall be opened in the Evanston City Cemetery except and until perpetual care of such grave space shall have been paid or provided therefore. The City council may regulate by resolution the price to be paid for and the terms of payment for perpetual care and maintenance of grave space previously sold without provision for perpetual care.
For any cemetery lot previously purchased without perpetual care maintenance, the City may enter into a contract with the purchaser for perpetual care thereon, which contract shall provide for the payment of twenty percent of the perpetual care at the time of execution thereof. The remaining balance shall be paid in twelve monthly installments together with interest at eight percent per annum on the deferred balance, and the first such installment shall be due and payable on the day of the month following date of the contract. In the event a burial is made, the opening and closing costs must be paid in full and a contract shall be entered into with the City and the owner of the lot providing the terms of payment for perpetual care at the rate fixed by resolution of the City council for single grave space with perpetual care. In the event the contract becomes in default, and after thirty days written notice of such default to the purchaser given by the City clerk by first class mail to the last known address of the purchaser, the contract shall be cancelled, and all payments previously made shall be forfeited to the City as liquidated damages, and the lot shall revert to uncared for status.
The payment for perpetual care upon those lots and grave spaces already sold without perpetual care, and the purchase price of the lots hereinabove provided to be sold shall be paid into the Evanston City perpetual care trust fund for the Evanston City Cemetery. This fund may be either kept in a special fund by the City or may be placed with a corporate trustee for care and maintenance of the Evanston City Cemetery.
The income from the perpetual care trust fund shall be used so far as is required solely for the general care, maintenance and embellishment of the Evanston City Cemetery and shall be applied in such manner as the City council shall from time to time direct. The initial perpetual care trust fund shall remain an irrevocable trust fund, and none of the original principal may be withdrawn until such time as this fund has reached the sum of one hundred thousand dollars in the principal amount; and at that time the principal amount may be withdrawn at the rate of one thousand dollars for each additional three thousand dollars.
All rights in lots or grave spaces sold as provided in this chapter, together with all improvements, shall be exempt from execution and from taxation and assessment for care and maintenance, from and after receipt by the City of payment therefor. The payments for grave space with perpetual care and maintenance shall not be construed to be payment for any of the services described in other sections of this chapter.
Each cemetery lot owned by the City shall be conveyed by a certificate signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk under the seal of the City, specifying that the person to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot or grave space described therein, by number as laid down on the map or plat of the Evanston City Cemetery for the purpose of interment, and stating the price paid therefor. Such certificate shall be issued when contract fees are paid in full, and shall vest the proprietor, his heirs and assigns, with a right in fee simple in such lot, for the sole purpose of interment, under the regulations of the City council.
The City clerk/treasurer shall have custody of and safely keep and preserve all of the books, records, deeds, maps, abstracts of all lots and papers relating to the Evanston City Cemetery and shall record and keep in separate books for such purposes records of all matters pertaining to the Evanston City Cemetery. The City treasurer shall establish and keep a separate account designated the cemetery fund, wherein he shall record all receipts and disbursements for the general improvement, preservation and embellishment and necessary operating expense of the Evanston City Cemetery, and he shall keep a separate account to be known as the Evanston City perpetual care trust fund, wherein he shall record and keep a record of the receipts for perpetual cemetery care and disbursements of income from such fund for perpetual cemetery care of grave spaces for which perpetual care has been provided.
The rules and regulations that shall govern the administration, management, use, care, donations, planting and markings of graves and grave spaces in the Evanston City Cemetery shall be adopted by resolution of the City council.
Any person who shall violate any of the rules and regulations provided by section 8-17 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not more than seven hundred fifty dollars. Any person violating any provision of this chapter, where the penalty is not otherwise provided for, shall be liable to a fine in any sum not more than seven hundred fifty dollars or to imprisonment for not more than six months.