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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 48 of 1993
(City Sexton/Maintenance Supervisor)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 15.24 OF THE SALT LAKE CITY
CODE, RELATING TO THE CITY SEXTON/MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR AND
MARKER INSPECTION FEES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Section 15.24 of the Salt Lake City Code
relating to fees for city sexton/maintenance supervisor's
services, be, and the same hereby is amended as follows:
Article I. General Regulations
15.24.010
15.24.020
15.24.030
15.24.040
15.24.050
15.24.060
15.24.070
15.24.080
15.24.090
15.24.100
15.24.110
15.24.120
15.24.130
15.24.140
15.24.150
15.24.160
15.24.170
15.24.180
15.24.190
15.24.200
15.24.210
15.24.220
15.24.230
15.24.240
15.24.250
15.24.260
15.24.270
15.28.280
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Motorcycles prohibited.
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Article II. Lots and Grave Sites
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Unused lots --Purchase by city sexton/maintenance
supervisor authorized when.
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Article III. Interment and Disinterment
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Burials --City sexton/maintenance supervisor authority.
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15.24.300
15.24.310
15.24.320
15.24.330
15.24.340
15.24.350
15.24.290 Fees for city sexton/maintenance supervisor's
services.
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Article I. General Regulations
15.24.010 Administration and enforcement.
The city cemetery shall be under the immediate supervision
of the city sexton/maintenance supervisor, under the direction of
the director public services. It shall be the duty of the city
sexton/maintenance supervisor to enforce the provisions of this
title in respect to the city cemetery, and to perform such other
work as may be required by the director public services.
15.24.020 Receipts deposited with treasurer.
All receipts and cash received by the city
sexton/maintenance supervisor in connection with his/her duties
at the city cemetery shall be deposited with the city treasurer
every Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week, unless any such
day is a holiday, and in that event the deposit may be made on
the next succeeding depository day.
15.24.030 * * *
15.24.040 * * *
15.24.050 Motorcycles prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for any person to ride a motorcycle
within the limits of the city cemetery.
15.24.060 Unauthorized vehicles.
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It is unlawful for any person to ride, drive or propel any
vehicle, motorcycle, automobile or truck on property within the
limits of the city cemetery on other than designated roadway
without the prior written permission of the city
sexton/maintenance supervisor. This section, however, shall not
apply to restrict the use or operation of city maintenance
vehicles within the cemetery.
15.24.070 Planting restrictions.
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15.24.080 Artificial flower displays.
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15.24.090 Dogs prohibited.
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15.24.100 Injuring or removing cemetery property prohibited.
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Article II. Lots and Grave Sites
15.24.110 Sale authorized - Procedure.
The city sexton/maintenance supervisor shall, upon
application of a purchaser, sell grave sites in the city cemetery
which shall be described by plat, lot or portion of lot.
15.24.120 Price for grave sites.
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A. Adult Grave Site.
B. Infant Grave Site.
15.24.130 What price includes.
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15.24.140 Installment contracts --Authorized when.
A. The city sexton/maintenance supervisor may sell grave
sites on installment contracts, provided that such contracts
comply with the following provisions:
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15.24.150 Installment contracts --Receipt of burial rights.
At the time of the sale, the city sexton/maintenance
supervisor shall issue to each installment purchaser a receipt of
burial rights, which receipt shall be issued in consecutive
serial numbers and shall describe grave site or sites in lots or
portions of lots and plats in accordance with the official
cemetery survey.
15.24.160 Duplicate certificates of burial rights.
The city sexton/maintenance supervisor shall keep a
duplicate of all certificates of burial rights issued by the city
sexton/maintenance supervisor as part of the records of the city
cemetery.
15.24.170 Installment contracts --Transfer by certificate.
When the installment contract, provided by the provisions of
Section 15.24.150, or its successor, is fully paid by the
purchaser, or in the event full payment for the grave site or
sites is made at the time of sale, the city shall transfer by
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certificate of burial rights, signed by the mayor or the city
sexton/maintenance supervisor for and on behalf of the city, the
title to the burial rights in such grave site or sites to the
purchaser, and such his/her heirs, successors and assigns,
subject to the trust imposed upon the city with respect to the
maintenance of the city cemetery as a burial ground for deceased
persons.
15.24.180 Transfer of certificate --Recording fee.
The fee for recording a transfer of the certificate of
burial rights from the original purchaser to another party shall
be fifteen dollars. No such transfer shall be binding upon the
city until such transfer fee has been paid and the transfer
recorded by the city sexton/maintenance supervisor.
15.24.190 Unused lots --City rights.
If, for a period in excess of sixty years and one day of
purchase of any cemetery lot, the grantee, or persons claiming
through the grantee:
A. Have not used portions of the lots or parcels for
purposes of burial and have not provided for the care of the lots
or parcels beyond that uniformly provided for all lots of the
cemetery, and during the sixty -year period have not given the
city written notice of any claim or interest in the lots or
parcels; or
B.
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1. That they file with the city sexton/maintenance
supervisor a written notice of claim or interest in and to
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the lots or parcels accompanied by evidence of their claim
within fifty days after service of a copy of notice of
demand, or
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15.24.200 Unused lots --Purchase by city sexton/maintenance
supervisor authorized when.
The city sexton/maintenance supervisor, when directed so to
do by the mayor, may purchase for the city, with funds provided
for that purpose by the city council, any unused lots or portions
of lots located in the city cemetery. It is unlawful, however,
for the city sexton/maintenance supervisor or any other employee
of the city to trade, deal in or make a profit, directly or
indirectly, out of any transaction involving the sale, purchase
or transfer of any cemetery lot.
15.24.210 Recording of plats and conveyances.
The city sexton/maintenance supervisor shall file with the
Salt Lake County recorder all records required by state statute
relating to cemetery plats and ownership thereof.
15.24.220 Lots --Perpetual care required.
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B. No grave opening upon any lot shall be authorized by the
city sexton/maintenance supervisor if perpetual care is owed upon
such lot until the charge provided in this section is paid. The
execution of an installment note in accordance with the
provisions of this chapter shall be deemed payment in order to
authorize grave openings.
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15.24.230 Lots --Changes and services restricted.
No improvement, change or service, other than perpetual care
as defined in this chapter, shall be made upon any grave site by
the owner or owners thereof without the prior written approval of
the city sexton/maintenance supervisor for such changes or
services, nor without payment to the city of the reasonable cost
of all such improvements, changes
approved.
15.24.240 Headstones, tombstones and fences --Grade limitations.
A. The owners of grave sites or relatives of deceased
persons buried in the city cemetery are required to erect, in a
manner satisfactory to the city sexton/maintenance supervisor,
headstones, tombstones or other suitable monuments at the heads
of graves, with the name of the deceased person plainly inscribed
thereon. Such headstones, tombstones or other suitable
monuments shall be flush with the surface of the ground or have
base of concrete no less than six inches larger than the marker
on all sides which is flush with the surface of the ground.
Further, all headstones, tombstones or other suitable monuments
must be in an orderly row and reasonably in line with all other
such markers in that plot.
B. No person shall erect or maintain any fence, wall,
corner post, coping, hedge or boundary of any kind upon any lot,
grave sites or lots in the cemetery, nor grade the ground or land
thereof. The city sexton/maintenance supervisor shall, whenever
requested, furnish the true lines of such lots according to the
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or services requested and
a
official survey, and shall prevent and prohibit any marking of
the same, save and except by official landmarks, and shall
prevent and prohibit any grading thereof that might destroy or
interfere
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with the general
Article III.
Burials must be
slope of the land.
Interment and Disinterment
in cemeteries --Exception.
15.24.260 Burials --City sexton/maintenance supervisor authority.
All interments in the city cemetery shall be under the
direction of the city sexton/maintenance supervisor, who shall
dig or cause to be dug all graves required for the burial of the
dead.
15.24.270 Burials --Certificate of permit required.
Before any interment, the city sexton/maintenance supervisor
shall require of any person requesting interment a certificate of
burial rights. Such certificate may be obtained by purchasing
the same, if the applicant has not yet purchased the gravesite,
or by presentation of a written permit from the owner or nearest
relative of the owner thereof. All such certificates and permits
shall be filed with the city sexton/maintenance supervisor and it
is unlawful for any person to inter any person in the city
cemetery without complying with the provisions of this section.
15.24.280 Permit requirements.
The city sexton/maintenance supervisor shall not inter or
permit the interment of any body unless it is accompanied by a
burial, removal or transit permit issued in accordance with state
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statutes and the Salt Lake City Code. The city
sexton/maintenance supervisor shall endorse upon the permit the
date of interment over his/her signature, and shall forthwith
return it to the local registrar in accordance with state statues
and this code.
15.24.290 Fees for city sexton/maintenance supervisor's
services.
A. The city sexton/maintenance supervisor shall collect
from those requiring her/her services, the following fees:
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9. For marker monitoring fees:
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For purposes of this section, "ground -level marker" means a
marker which can be passed over by the city's lawn mowers without
obstruction. All markers which are not "ground -level markers"
shall be known as "upright markers."
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C. For any burial on a Sunday or holiday, there shall be
charged a fee equal to the city's actual additional costs above
that for a day other than Sunday or holidays, but not to exceed
three hundred dollars for regular burials and one hundred dollars
for infant or cremain burials, which shall be in addition to any
other fees and costs provided in this chapter.
15.24.300 Recordkeeping requirements.
The city sexton/maintenance supervisor shall keep a record
of all interments made, including cremations, in the city
cemetery, which shall state the name of the deceased person
place of death, date of burial, and name and address of the
funeral director. These records shall be open to public
inspection at all times.
15.24.310 Burial above ground prohibited.
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15.24.320 Burial of convicted murderers prohibited.
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15.24.330 Use of wood receptacles prohibited.
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15.24.340 Disinterment and removal.
It is unlawful for any person to disinter any body buried in
the city cemetery or in any cemetery within the limits of Salt
Lake City except under the direction of the city
sexton/maintenance supervisor. Before disinterment, the city
sexton/maintenance supervisor shall require a permit issued by
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the board of health and a written order from the owner of the lot
authorizing such removal, which order shall be filed and
preserved by the city sexton/maintenance supervisor. All such
removals shall be recorded by the city sexton/maintenance
supervisor in a book kept for that purpose.
15.24.350 Death from contagious diseases --Disinterment
conditions.
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SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon its first
publication.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah, this
(njeA day of 7..I..V12 , 1992.
CHAIRR RSON
ATTEST:
ransmitted t`6 the Mayor on Jaye r9 9 3 .
Mayor
ATTEST:
Bill 48 of 1993
Published June 18,
993
Approved
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MAYOR
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Vetoed
APPROVED AS TO FORM
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