Regulations
REGULATIONS OF OKLAHOMA LANE CEMETERY
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF
OKLAHOMA LANE CEMETERY BOARD
Section 1. The Cemetery Board oversees the care, management, and control of the Oklahoma Lane Cemetery. Said board shall consist of five (5) members, at least two (2) men and two (2) women, and shall be elected or re-elected at the community annual meeting held on Memorial Day each year. Said board, when elected, shall serve without compensation.
Section 2. The said Cemetery Board shall be in charge and have the absolute control and management of the Cemetery. The board shall make, from time to time, necessary rules and regulations for the operation, management, care, and custody of said cemetery, and the employment of a sexton or sextone, or such other employees or workman necessary for the proper care, maintenance, and beautifying of a cemetery.
Section 3. The Cemetery Board will provide an annual report each year, showing the receipts from all sources and disbursements made in the operation, maintenance, and beautifying of the cemetery under its charge for the preceding twelve months.
Section 4. The Cemetery Board in the exercise of its duties in making disposition of burial lots is authorized to execute deed or deeds conveying a title to the purchaser or other evidence of the title as deemed sufficient by the Cemetery Board, which deed or evidence of title shall be executed by (2) two members of the Board of Directors and attested by a Texas notary.
Section 5. The price of a grave plot in the Oklahoma Lane Cemetery shall be ($250.00) Two Hundred Fifty Dollars each plus the cost of filing the deed at the Parmer County Court House. Headstones shall be required from the effective date hereof for each grave site throughout the Oklahoma Lane Cemetery. If a headstone is not placed at the grave site within one (1) year of interment, the Cemetery Association will be allowed to place a headstone at the grave site at its sole discretion.
Section 6. Regulation of the Burial of Cremains and Bodies
There shall be a maximum of (1) body buried in one space; In the case of cremation, one (1) body and two (2) cremains of (family members) may be interred in each space; or a maximum of four (4) cremains of (family members) and no body buried may be interred in each space.
Cremains must be buried in an urn and at least two (2) feet deep. If the family chooses, they may hire someone, or they may open and close the cremain burial space themselves.
Oklahoma Lane Cemetery Board must be notified prior to burial of any body or cremains.
Section 7. Setting of Headstones and other Appurtenances to Grave Sties.
Monuments must be made in the United States of marble, granite, bronze or suitable material. No Cast Concrete, and must be set on a Concrete base. Monuments must be installed by a reputable monument company.
No glass containers are allowed for any purpose. Flowers and trinkets will be removed if they are on the grave and the area needs mowing. Flowers should only be placed at the headstone.
When artificial flowers become faded and unsightly, they are to be removed.
This Ordinance passed, approved, and adopted this 16th day of May, 2013.
Board of Directors: _____________________
Ruth Anne Bennett
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Richard Carpenter
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Tommie Fulcher – Secretary/Treasure
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Pam Norton
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Kenny White