Riverside Cemetery Rules & Policy - City of Alma

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Graveside Service.
Chapel Service. The chapel at Riverside Cemetery shall be available for interment
services in lieu of the graveside service. The Cemetery sexton may require the use of
the cemetery chapel in lieu of grave side services during inclement weather or spring
thaws, during which ground conditions are unstable.
SECTION 24. Permanent Outside Containers. In all adult interments the casket shall be
enclosed in a permanent outside container. The following are considered permanent outside
containers; concrete boxes, concrete, copper or steel burial vaults, and sectional concrete crypts.**
All cremain internments shall be enclosed in a permanent outside container. The following are
considered permanent outside containers; plastic or marble container from crematorium, urn, and/ or
concrete, copper or steel cremain burial vaults.
** Approved 10/12/99.
SECTION 25. General Interment Restrictions. Only one interment in any one grave shall
be permitted, except that cremated remains may be buried above another grave. The Superintendent
of the Cemetery shall not be held responsible for errors in location of graves on lots arising from
improper instructions of lot owners. Under no circumstances shall the City assume responsibility for
error in opening graves when orders are given by telephone. No graves shall be opened except by
workmen employed by the cemetery management. Outside containers shall not be delivered to
cemeteries on Sunday. Undertakers are to arrange the time of funeral so that cemetery workmen can
complete interment by 3:30 p.m. In case this cannot be done, an extra charge as provided herein shall
be made for all overtime worked by cemetery employees.
DISINTERMENT
SECTION 26. General Restrictions. Disinterment of a body once properly interred shall not
be made without an order signed by a court of competent jurisdiction , or on the written order of the
local Health Officer*. Graves shall not be opened for inspection except for official investigation. All
disinterments shall be made between May 1st and October 1st of any calendar year. Any markers or
monuments designating the location of an interment shall be removed at the time a disinterment is
made.
* Department of Public Health, Office of Vital and Health Statistics, Disinterment - Reinterment
Filed with the Secretary of State on February 25, 1982. These rules take effect 15 days after filing
with the Secretary of State. (By authority conferred on the department of public health by section
2853 of Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended being §333.2853 of the Michigan
Complied Laws).
R 325.8051
Discovery of remains; notification of police required; exception.
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