Dedication and special rules for veteran memorial plot
 
     
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(a) The grave spaces in the memorial lot of the cemetery are reserved and dedicated to the sole use and purpose of burying the bodies of veterans and ex-veterans of past and future wars of the United States, subject to the conditions hereinafter specified. Persons to be buried in the veteran memorial plot must be an honorable discharged wartime veteran residing in the city at the time of death.

(b) No charge shall be made for the privilege of using the grave spaces named in subsection (a), nor for any care or maintenance thereon, except that the usual charges for opening and closing graves, curbing and flower containers shall be paid therefore in the manner prescribed.

(c) All rules and regulations prescribed by the city governing the use and care of the cemetery shall be observed by all parties interested in the use of the veterans' memorial plot for burial with the following exceptions:

  1. No grave marker shall be installed in this plot, except upright marble type supplied by the United States government.
  2. All burials shall be made in the spaces in consecutive order as designated by the city.
  3. Cremated veterans shall be inurned in the columbarium erected in the veteran plot for that purpose. A veteran's remains may not be buried in a traditional full size veteran grave unless that grave could not be used for a traditional burial with casket.
  4. The circular park adjoining the veterans' memorial plot may be used by such parties or organizations as are interested in the care and development of the veterans’ memorial plot for the installations of a suitable flag staff, instruments of warfare, implements, memorial monuments or other decorations upon the approval of the city.
  5. The remains of up to two of the immediate family members of a Veteran that is already buried in the veterans’ memorial plot may be buried on that Veteran’s grave.
  6. If there is room for additional memorialization on the upright marble VA stone, the spouse of that Veteran buried may be memorialized on said stone at the family’s expense.

 


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