Dedication and
special rules for veteran memorial plot
(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:
- No grave marker shall be installed in
this plot, except upright marble type
supplied by the United States government.
- All burials shall be made in the spaces
in consecutive order as designated by the
city.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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