February 10, 2010
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF
BELLEFONTAINE CEMETERY
For the mutual protection of lot owners and the cemetery as a whole, the following rules and regulations have been adopted by the BELLFONTAINE CEMETERY SOCIETY and all lot owners and visitors within the cemetery and all lots sold, shall be subject to said rules and regulations. And subject further, to such other rules and regulations, amendments, or alterations as shall be adopted by the SOCIETY from time to time and the reference to these rules and regulations in the deed or certificate of ownership to a lot shall have force and effect as if set forth in full therein.
No marker or monument shall be erected unless it is firmly placed on a suitable foundation of solid masonry to be constructed only by the Cemetery personnel, and for which reasonable charges will be made. Foundations must be paid for in advance.
No individual beds of shrubbery or flowers are allowed on the grounds. The management will undertake to maintain and preserve the landscape features by the planting of trees, shrubs, and flowers.
The placing of all articles on burial spaces except flowers, is prohibited; no Shepherd Staffs or Crooks are permitted; nor toys, cases, boxes, globes, shells, glass containers and bric-a brac of every description. If anything be placed upon any burial space which shall be deemed offensive, improper or injurious to person or property, or violates any rule or regulation, the Manager shall have the right, and it shall be their duty, to enter upon said burial space and remove said article or articles there from without notice.
The cemetery will not be liable for baskets, frames, or floral pieces.
The walking of dogs or any other animals or pets in the grounds of the Cemetery is prohibited
Loitering or loafing within the confines of the Cemetery is prohibited.
Bringing food items, refreshments or alcoholic beverages into the Cemetery is prohibited.
The Cemetery will be open from dawn to dusk.
Cemetery is hereby defined as a burial park for earth interments of human remains.
Grave, plot or lot shall apply to a space of sufficient size to accommodate one adult interment.
Interment shall mean the permanent disposition of the remains of a deceased person by cremation or burial.
Memorial shall include a monument, marker tablet, headstone, tombstone, urn, crypt, or niche place.
Monument shall include a tombstone or memorial of granite or marble, which shall extend above the ground.
Marker is a memorial flush with the ground.
Lot Marker refers to any means used by the cemetery to locate corners of the lot.
Certificate of Ownership shall apply to the original conveyance given by the cemetery to the original purchaser.
All interments, disinterment and removals must be approved at a time and in the manner and subject to such charges as fixed by the Board. An extra fifty dollar {$50} charge payable to the Sexton for interments made on Sundays, Memorial, July 4th, Labor, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year Days.
The money set aside for perpetual care shall be held in trust and invested as provided by law. The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board reserves the right, however, either to handle all investments itself, or to deposit said funds with any person, company, or corporation qualified to act as trustee for such funds.
Bellefontaine Cemetery Address is P. O. Box 7, Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620
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The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society is a not-for-profit corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana. It owns and operates Bellefontaine Cemetery in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana. It reserves the right to refuse the use of any of the Cemetery’s facilities at any time to any person or persons whom the management may deem objectionable to the best interest of the cemetery.
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board of Trustees, has exclusive jurisdiction and control of all property, real and personal constituting the assets of Bellefontaine Cemetery Society, and shall control all expenditures made on account thereof, cause such needed repairs and improvements to be made as it may deem necessary, fix from time to time a scale of prices for sale of burial spaces and other services, and manage, control and invest the funds in its treasury, and such other rights as they may have or be granted by law.
It is the duty of the management to see that the rules and regulations are complied with and that order is maintained to protect and promote the best interest of the cemetery. To that end they are authorized to make temporary additional rules, which may be needed from time to time to meet emergencies, which are not covered, by these rules and regulations.
All burial spaces shall be used only for interment of deceased human beings. No interment of two or more bodies shall be made in one grave except in the case of mother and child; two infants buried in one casket, two cremations, or one body and one cremation; and only after written consent are obtained from the Cemetery Manager.
When an interment is to be made in a burial space, the owner shall designate the location of such interment. Should the lot owner fail or neglect to make such designation, the cemetery reserves the right to make the interment in a location designed by the Cemetery Management.
The Cemetery will not be liable for the interment permit nor for the identity of the person interred.
The Cemetery Management and Employees of the Cemetery is the only person who will be permitted to open a grave;
(A) Except when the cemetery is directed to make a disinterment by order of a court of competent jurisdiction and a certified copy of such order filed with the management.
(B) When the coroner directs the disinterment for the purpose of holding an inquest and has filed with the management his signed authorization to release the body to himself and his lawful agents. In such case the coroner or his lawful agents must make the disinterment. Cemetery employees will not be permitted to assist the coroner or his agents
The right is reserved by the Board to insist upon at least eight (8) working hour’s notice prior to any interment and at least one (1) week’s notice prior to any disinterment and/or removal.
Before any burial is made, full payment of the grave must be made in advance to the cemetery. Persons desiring to purchase a lot should call the cemetery office to arrange a visit to the cemetery where the management will aid them in making a selection and will issue a receipt describing the lot purchased.
Funeral directors, upon arrival at the cemetery, must present the necessary burial permit from the local health office.
All charges for interment or services in connection therewith, shall be paid in advance to cemetery management who will issue a receipt.
The Board for the purpose of performing necessary Cemetery operations and maintenance reserves a perpetual right of ingress and egress over and across all burial spaces
All earth interments shall be made in an outer container of concrete or steel, of sufficient strength and durability to provide a reasonably permanent support for the weight above the container. The firm furnishing such container shall make the actual installation of such. The Board shall not be responsible for any delay of interments because of not being able to use an outside container that is too large for the designated burial space. In some cases, due to size of outsize container, it shall be necessary that two (2) burial spaces be utilized for an interment.
Should there be any special instruction or wishes in reference to conducting or arrangement of interment, it shall be the duty of the funeral director or person in charge to make such known to the Manager or their assistant of the Cemetery before the burial service, who shall make reasonable efforts to comply with all requests thus made, but shall be under no obligation or duty to do so.
Funeral Directors and those in charge of all funeral processions entering the Cemetery shall be under the direct control of the Manager or their assistant until the burial service is completed and the funeral procession has departed from the Cemetery grounds.
Once a casket containing a body is within the confines of the Cemetery, no one shall be permitted to open the casket or touch the body without the consent of a member of the family of the deceased, and then only by the funeral director conducting the service.
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The Bellefontaine Cemetery Board shall be in no way liable for any delay in the interment of a body, or for any delay in the fulfillment of any of its contract or legal obligations, including but not limited to maintenance, care, memorial work or construction, which may arise from causes beyond its reasonable control, and especially, from delays caused by the elements, an act of God, common enemy, thieves, vandals, strikes, unavoidable accidents, riots, or order of any military or civil authority.
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Board will exercise all reasonable precautions in making a removal, but will be under no liability for damage to any casket or burial container incurred in making such removal.
The remains of a deceased person interred in the Cemetery may be removed with the consent of the Board and the written consent of the surviving spouse, or if there be no surviving spouse, then of the children, or if there be no spouse nor children, then of the surviving parents of the deceased, or should there be no surviving spouse nor children nor parent, then of the brothers and sisters of the deceased. If the consent of any such person or of the Board cannot be obtained, then no such removal shall be made without a judgment of the Circuit or Superior Court of Posey County, State of Indiana; or any other court of proper jurisdiction; provided, further, that this paragraph shall not apply to the disinterment of remains upon the written order of the Coroner of Posey County for the purpose of an autopsy.
In the event the Board, the Manager or any of their employees should make an error in fulfilling their duties relative to the operation and use of the Cemetery, including, but not limited to interments, disinterments, removals and making inaccurate descriptions or improper transfer of burial space, then the Board reserves the right to take such action as they deem reasonably fair and proper in order to correct any such error. In the event an error shall involve the interment of the remains of a person in an improper space, such remains may be removed to another space, providing the Board determine that the other space is comparable in value and similar in location.
The “general care” of the Cemetery, as the term implies, means any and all things requisite or necessary for the general upkeep, care and maintenance of the Cemetery grounds and improvements. Included in general care, but not limited thereto, is the maintaining and keeping in good working condition, all machinery, tools and equipment required for Cemetery operation. Also, the keeping in good state of repair, the drains, water lines, roads, fences, and other Cemetery buildings, structures and property owned by the Cemetery.
The descriptions of lots and burial spaces are in accordance with the cemetery plats, which are kept on file at the Cemetery Office.
Before any owner of burial spaces signs a contract for a marker or monument, it is required that such owner, or his contractor, ascertain from the Manager whether the desired marker or monument may be installed upon the burial space, and if the size thereof complies with the rules and regulations established by the Board.
The cemetery reserves the right to prevent the removal of any flowers, floral designs, trees, shrubs, or plants unless the management gives consent.
The management shall have the authority to remove floral designs, flowers, weeds, trees, shrubs, plants, or herbage of any kind from the cemetery as soon, as in the judgment of the management, they become unsightly, dangerous, detrimental, diseased, or when they do not conform to the standard maintained.
Receptacles for waste material are located at convenient locations in the Cemetery. The throwing of rubbish on drives, or any part of the grounds is prohibited.
Any person disturbing the quiet and good order of the Cemetery, either by making a noise or by boisterous or improper conduct, shall be removed from the confines of the Cemetery by order of the Manager, or other person in charge.
An adult who will be responsible for their conduct must accompany children under 15 years of age.
Persons bearing firearms (excluding law enforcement officers) have permission to enter the Cemetery only when participating at military funerals or exercises.
No person shall deface, pencil, desecrate or otherwise defile or damage any monument, marker, burial structure or other improvement within the confines of the Cemetery, nor shall any person injure, damage, or destroy any tree, scrub or plant therein. Any person or persons committing such acts shall be subject to arrest and prosecution.
Soliciting the sale of any commodity or memorial shall be prohibited within the confines of the Cemetery, and the Board will permit no sign of any advertising nature.
Vehicles within or leaving the Cemetery shall be operated at a reasonable speed and yield to incoming funeral processions.
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board shall take reasonable precaution to protect owners of burial spaces, and their successor or successors to burial spaces, from loss or damage; but said Board expressly disclaims all responsibility for loss or damage caused by the elements, an act of God, common enemy, thieves, vandals, strikers, unavoidable accident, riots, or order of any military or civic authority, whether the damage be direct or collateral, other than herein provided. It is suggested that owners of private mausoleums, markers and/or monuments insure same against such perils as vandalism, storms, lighting, explosion, fire, theft, aircraft, vehicles, and other perils.
Special cases may arise in which the literal enforcement of a rule or regulation may impose an unnecessary hardship. Therefore the Board reserves the right, without notice, to make exceptions, suspensions, or modifications of any of these Rules and Regulations when, in its judgement, the same appears advisable; and such action if taken, shall in no way be construed as effecting the general application of such Rules and Regulations.
The operation of the Cemetery is under the charge and control of the Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board, who have the right hereby expressly reserved, at any time to change modify or add to these Rules and Regulations whenever in its judgement the best interests of the Cemetery will be served by such action.
In the event of a dispute or controversy, arising with regard to the intent and interpretation of any Rule or Regulation herein contained, the matter shall be referred to the Board, and their decisions in such matters shall be final and conclusive.
CEMETERY SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
For the mutual protection of lot owners and the cemetery as a whole, the following rules and regulations have been adopted by the BELLEFONTAINE CEMETERY SOCIETY and all lot owners and visitors within the cemetery and all lots sold, shall be subject to said rules and regulations. And subject further, to such other rules and regulations, amendments, or alterations as shall be adopted by the SOCIETY from time to time and the reference to these rules and regulations in the deed or certificate of ownership to a lot shall have force and effect as if set forth in full therein.
No marker or monument shall be erected unless it is firmly placed on a suitable foundation of solid masonry to be constructed only by the Cemetery personnel, and for which reasonable charges will be made. Foundations must be paid for in advance.
No individual beds of shrubbery or flowers are allowed on the grounds. The management will undertake to maintain and preserve the landscape features by the planting of trees, shrubs, and flowers.
The placing of all articles on burial spaces except flowers, is prohibited; no Shepherd Staffs or Crooks are permitted; nor toys, cases, boxes, globes, shells, glass containers and bric-a brac of every description. If anything be placed upon any burial space which shall be deemed offensive, improper or injurious to person or property, or violates any rule or regulation, the Manager shall have the right, and it shall be their duty, to enter upon said burial space and remove said article or articles there from without notice.
The cemetery will not be liable for baskets, frames, or floral pieces.
The walking of dogs or any other animals or pets in the grounds of the Cemetery is prohibited
Loitering or loafing within the confines of the Cemetery is prohibited.
Bringing food items, refreshments or alcoholic beverages into the Cemetery is prohibited.
The Cemetery will be open from dawn to dusk.
Cemetery is hereby defined as a burial park for earth interments of human remains.
Grave, plot or lot shall apply to a space of sufficient size to accommodate one adult interment.
Interment shall mean the permanent disposition of the remains of a deceased person by cremation or burial.
Memorial shall include a monument, marker tablet, headstone, tombstone, urn, crypt, or niche place.
Monument shall include a tombstone or memorial of granite or marble, which shall extend above the ground.
Marker is a memorial flush with the ground.
Lot Marker refers to any means used by the cemetery to locate corners of the lot.
Certificate of Ownership shall apply to the original conveyance given by the cemetery to the original purchaser.
All interments, disinterment and removals must be approved at a time and in the manner and subject to such charges as fixed by the Board. An extra fifty dollar {$50} charge payable to the Sexton for interments made on Sundays, Memorial, July 4th, Labor, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year Days.
The money set aside for perpetual care shall be held in trust and invested as provided by law. The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board reserves the right, however, either to handle all investments itself, or to deposit said funds with any person, company, or corporation qualified to act as trustee for such funds.
Bellefontaine Cemetery Address is P. O. Box 7, Mount Vernon, Indiana 47620
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society is a not-for-profit corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Indiana. It owns and operates Bellefontaine Cemetery in accordance with the laws of the State of Indiana. It reserves the right to refuse the use of any of the Cemetery’s facilities at any time to any person or persons whom the management may deem objectionable to the best interest of the cemetery.
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board of Trustees, has exclusive jurisdiction and control of all property, real and personal constituting the assets of Bellefontaine Cemetery Society, and shall control all expenditures made on account thereof, cause such needed repairs and improvements to be made as it may deem necessary, fix from time to time a scale of prices for sale of burial spaces and other services, and manage, control and invest the funds in its treasury, and such other rights as they may have or be granted by law.
It is the duty of the management to see that the rules and regulations are complied with and that order is maintained to protect and promote the best interest of the cemetery. To that end they are authorized to make temporary additional rules, which may be needed from time to time to meet emergencies, which are not covered, by these rules and regulations.
All burial spaces shall be used only for interment of deceased human beings. No interment of two or more bodies shall be made in one grave except in the case of mother and child; two infants buried in one casket, two cremations, or one body and one cremation; and only after written consent are obtained from the Cemetery Manager.
When an interment is to be made in a burial space, the owner shall designate the location of such interment. Should the lot owner fail or neglect to make such designation, the cemetery reserves the right to make the interment in a location designed by the Cemetery Management.
The Cemetery will not be liable for the interment permit nor for the identity of the person interred.
The Cemetery Management and Employees of the Cemetery is the only person who will be permitted to open a grave;
(A) Except when the cemetery is directed to make a disinterment by order of a court of competent jurisdiction and a certified copy of such order filed with the management.
(B) When the coroner directs the disinterment for the purpose of holding an inquest and has filed with the management his signed authorization to release the body to himself and his lawful agents. In such case the coroner or his lawful agents must make the disinterment. Cemetery employees will not be permitted to assist the coroner or his agents
The right is reserved by the Board to insist upon at least eight (8) working hour’s notice prior to any interment and at least one (1) week’s notice prior to any disinterment and/or removal.
Before any burial is made, full payment of the grave must be made in advance to the cemetery. Persons desiring to purchase a lot should call the cemetery office to arrange a visit to the cemetery where the management will aid them in making a selection and will issue a receipt describing the lot purchased.
Funeral directors, upon arrival at the cemetery, must present the necessary burial permit from the local health office.
All charges for interment or services in connection therewith, shall be paid in advance to cemetery management who will issue a receipt.
The Board for the purpose of performing necessary Cemetery operations and maintenance reserves a perpetual right of ingress and egress over and across all burial spaces
All earth interments shall be made in an outer container of concrete or steel, of sufficient strength and durability to provide a reasonably permanent support for the weight above the container. The firm furnishing such container shall make the actual installation of such. The Board shall not be responsible for any delay of interments because of not being able to use an outside container that is too large for the designated burial space. In some cases, due to size of outsize container, it shall be necessary that two (2) burial spaces be utilized for an interment.
Should there be any special instruction or wishes in reference to conducting or arrangement of interment, it shall be the duty of the funeral director or person in charge to make such known to the Manager or their assistant of the Cemetery before the burial service, who shall make reasonable efforts to comply with all requests thus made, but shall be under no obligation or duty to do so.
Funeral Directors and those in charge of all funeral processions entering the Cemetery shall be under the direct control of the Manager or their assistant until the burial service is completed and the funeral procession has departed from the Cemetery grounds.
Once a casket containing a body is within the confines of the Cemetery, no one shall be permitted to open the casket or touch the body without the consent of a member of the family of the deceased, and then only by the funeral director conducting the service.
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The Bellefontaine Cemetery Board shall be in no way liable for any delay in the interment of a body, or for any delay in the fulfillment of any of its contract or legal obligations, including but not limited to maintenance, care, memorial work or construction, which may arise from causes beyond its reasonable control, and especially, from delays caused by the elements, an act of God, common enemy, thieves, vandals, strikes, unavoidable accidents, riots, or order of any military or civil authority.
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Board will exercise all reasonable precautions in making a removal, but will be under no liability for damage to any casket or burial container incurred in making such removal.
The remains of a deceased person interred in the Cemetery may be removed with the consent of the Board and the written consent of the surviving spouse, or if there be no surviving spouse, then of the children, or if there be no spouse nor children, then of the surviving parents of the deceased, or should there be no surviving spouse nor children nor parent, then of the brothers and sisters of the deceased. If the consent of any such person or of the Board cannot be obtained, then no such removal shall be made without a judgment of the Circuit or Superior Court of Posey County, State of Indiana; or any other court of proper jurisdiction; provided, further, that this paragraph shall not apply to the disinterment of remains upon the written order of the Coroner of Posey County for the purpose of an autopsy.
In the event the Board, the Manager or any of their employees should make an error in fulfilling their duties relative to the operation and use of the Cemetery, including, but not limited to interments, disinterments, removals and making inaccurate descriptions or improper transfer of burial space, then the Board reserves the right to take such action as they deem reasonably fair and proper in order to correct any such error. In the event an error shall involve the interment of the remains of a person in an improper space, such remains may be removed to another space, providing the Board determine that the other space is comparable in value and similar in location.
The “general care” of the Cemetery, as the term implies, means any and all things requisite or necessary for the general upkeep, care and maintenance of the Cemetery grounds and improvements. Included in general care, but not limited thereto, is the maintaining and keeping in good working condition, all machinery, tools and equipment required for Cemetery operation. Also, the keeping in good state of repair, the drains, water lines, roads, fences, and other Cemetery buildings, structures and property owned by the Cemetery.
The descriptions of lots and burial spaces are in accordance with the cemetery plats, which are kept on file at the Cemetery Office.
Before any owner of burial spaces signs a contract for a marker or monument, it is required that such owner, or his contractor, ascertain from the Manager whether the desired marker or monument may be installed upon the burial space, and if the size thereof complies with the rules and regulations established by the Board.
The cemetery reserves the right to prevent the removal of any flowers, floral designs, trees, shrubs, or plants unless the management gives consent.
The management shall have the authority to remove floral designs, flowers, weeds, trees, shrubs, plants, or herbage of any kind from the cemetery as soon, as in the judgment of the management, they become unsightly, dangerous, detrimental, diseased, or when they do not conform to the standard maintained.
Receptacles for waste material are located at convenient locations in the Cemetery. The throwing of rubbish on drives, or any part of the grounds is prohibited.
Any person disturbing the quiet and good order of the Cemetery, either by making a noise or by boisterous or improper conduct, shall be removed from the confines of the Cemetery by order of the Manager, or other person in charge.
An adult who will be responsible for their conduct must accompany children under 15 years of age.
Persons bearing firearms (excluding law enforcement officers) have permission to enter the Cemetery only when participating at military funerals or exercises.
No person shall deface, pencil, desecrate or otherwise defile or damage any monument, marker, burial structure or other improvement within the confines of the Cemetery, nor shall any person injure, damage, or destroy any tree, scrub or plant therein. Any person or persons committing such acts shall be subject to arrest and prosecution.
Soliciting the sale of any commodity or memorial shall be prohibited within the confines of the Cemetery, and the Board will permit no sign of any advertising nature.
Vehicles within or leaving the Cemetery shall be operated at a reasonable speed and yield to incoming funeral processions.
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board shall take reasonable precaution to protect owners of burial spaces, and their successor or successors to burial spaces, from loss or damage; but said Board expressly disclaims all responsibility for loss or damage caused by the elements, an act of God, common enemy, thieves, vandals, strikers, unavoidable accident, riots, or order of any military or civic authority, whether the damage be direct or collateral, other than herein provided. It is suggested that owners of private mausoleums, markers and/or monuments insure same against such perils as vandalism, storms, lighting, explosion, fire, theft, aircraft, vehicles, and other perils.
Special cases may arise in which the literal enforcement of a rule or regulation may impose an unnecessary hardship. Therefore the Board reserves the right, without notice, to make exceptions, suspensions, or modifications of any of these Rules and Regulations when, in its judgement, the same appears advisable; and such action if taken, shall in no way be construed as effecting the general application of such Rules and Regulations.
The operation of the Cemetery is under the charge and control of the Bellefontaine Cemetery Society Board, who have the right hereby expressly reserved, at any time to change modify or add to these Rules and Regulations whenever in its judgement the best interests of the Cemetery will be served by such action.
In the event of a dispute or controversy, arising with regard to the intent and interpretation of any Rule or Regulation herein contained, the matter shall be referred to the Board, and their decisions in such matters shall be final and conclusive.