§ 10-10. Interments generally.

(a)

Before interments in the municipal cemetery are made, a deed for the lot shall have been obtained from the city clerk and placed upon the city clerk's records, and a permit issued by the city clerk for opening the grave shall be delivered to the sexton. The permit shall show the lot number to be used for the grave, the name of the person and the age and sex. No permit shall be issued until the cost of preparing the grave is first deposited with the city clerk.

(b)

A schedule of charges shall be prepared by the city manager and kept on file with the city clerk for the sale of lots and preparation of graves in Fairview Cemetery. Such charges shall include the price for which lots shall be sold and the charges sufficient to cover the cost of opening and closing the graves and other miscellaneous charges including special care, overtime charges and other details. Such charges shall be based on the size and location of such graves and such other factors that have any bearing on the cost.

(c)

It shall be the duty of the cemetery sexton or his authorized representative to attend every funeral and exercise supervisory control over the funeral insofar as is necessary to preserve proper decorum, respect and order appropriate to the occasion and to enforce the rules of the city governing the cemetery.

(d)

Two interments in one grave will not be permitted, except for a mother and infant child, twin children or two children under ten years of age buried at the same time.

(Code 1986, § 8-7; Code 2002, § 10-10)

State law reference

Issuance of burial transit permit by local registrar of vital statistics, 63 O.S. § 1-319.