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CHAPTER 10
CEMETERIES
10-1 CEMETERY CARE AND MAINTENANCE
10-2 WISCONSIN STATUTES ADOPTED
10-3 INVESTMENTS OF PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
SECTION 10-1 CEMETERY CARE AND MAINTENANCE
The Director of Parks shall prescribe rules and regulations relating to interments in the cemetery and
to the sale of lots, subject to approval of the Council.
Whenever the Cemetery Foreman, under the direction and control of the Director of Parks, shall
direct such work to be done, the work shall be done in accordance with the established rates or
charges therefor. Said Foreman is further authorized to make the charges for such work a lien on
the graves or lots affected thereby and such lien charges shall be paid by the lot owner at such time
as the affected lots or graves are redeemed from the annual care charges. However, if such lots or
graves are not redeemed by the owners and are sold pursuant to the policy and procedures
heretofore adopted and authorized by the Wisconsin Statutes requiring annual care, and shall be
sold to third persons after title acquired by the City, such special charges authorized by this Article
shall not be included in the price charged such third person or persons.
No person, religious society, or other associations whatever, shall lay out or establish any cemetery
grounds, or use any lot, tract or parcel of land within the City for the burial of any dead person or
persons, except such cemetery grounds as may be designated by the Common Council.
No person excepting someone acting under the direction of the Cemetery Foreman shall dig any
grave on such cemetery grounds.
The Cemetery foreman shall keep a record of all graves dug showing the location thereof, the name
of the person buried therein and the date of such burial.
SECTION 10-2 WISCONSIN STATUTES ADOPTED
Except as otherwise specifically provided, all provisions of Chapter 157 of the Wisconsin Statutes
and all relevant provisions of the Wisconsin Administrative Code adopted pursuant thereto
describing and defining regulations with respect to cemeteries are hereby adopted and by reference
made a part of this Code as if fully set forth herein. It is the intention of this ordinance to include
within such references all provisions in effect at the time of adoption of this section together with any
applicable prior revisions and all future recodifications, renumberings and amendments unless
otherwise expressly provided in such references. It is the intention of this section that any act
required to be performed or prohibited by Chapter 157 of the Wisconsin Statutes or by the relevant
provisions of the Wisconsin Administrative Code, as previously amended, presently in effect or as
may be amended in the future, incorporated within this section by reference, is an act required to be
performed or is an act prohibited by this section.
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SECTION 10-3 INVESTMENTS OF PERPETUAL CARE FUNDS
The Director of Finance is hereby authorized and directed to invest the perpetual care funds of said
cemetery as provided in Chapter 320 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Upon making such purchases or
sales as to the investments and reinvestment of such funds, the Director of Finance (City Treasurer)
shall report same to the City Manager and City Council.
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