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HomeMy WebLinkAboutChapter 10 - CemeteriesCity of Oshkosh Municipal Codes Revised 04/04/26 City of Oshkosh Chapter 10 – Page 1 Municipal Codes 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 Department of Cultural and Enrichment Services and the Department of Public Works Operations through their Directors and designees shall jointly operate and maintain the City cemetery. The Departments shall prescribe rules and regulations for the operation and maintenance of the cemetery. These rules and regulations include interments in the cemetery and to the sale of lots, and are subject to approval of the Council. The Director of Public Works Operations shall be responsible for the work to be done for internments, and also for construction, maintenance, repair, and replacement of property and facilities in the cemetery, and shall direct such work to be done. The work shall be done for internments shall be in accordance with the rates or charges established by the Council. The Director is further authorized to take all lawful actions to place unpaid charges for such work as a lien on the graves or lots affected thereby. Unpaid charges, and amounts subject to a lien 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 Chapter 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 Director of Public Works Operations shall dig any grave on such cemetery grounds. The City 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 City of Oshkosh Municipal Codes Revised 04/04/26 City of Oshkosh Chapter 10 – Page 2 Municipal Codes 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.