Riverside Cemetery Rules & Policy - City of Alma

y some lot or grave owners. For this reason stated, Perpetual Care will not include the repair,
maintenance or replacement of any monument, marker or other lot adornment nor will it include the
watering of plants, urns, beds or baskets or the annual placing of beds or cut flowers except as such
work is done in the normal care incidental to regular maintenance.
Perpetual Care as outlined above will provide all the essential requirements of a well kept cemetery
in which all lots will be under perpetual care, or care forever without further expense to the lot owner.
Perpetual Care Endowment costs are $25.00 per grave. This cost is included in the current sale price
of a cemetery lot or grave. Some of the Cemetery’s previously sold lots have endowments owing and
burial will not take place on these grave sites until all endowment charges are paid in full.
THE IDEAL LOT:
An ideal lot would be a family lot which would provide burial space for your entire family. A
monument if used should be of suitable proportion and carry the family name. Markers, if used,
should conform to the monument in material and lettering. The planting of dwarf evergreens or dwarf
shrubs may be planted at site of the monument but must be approved by a Cemetery Official. The
rest of the lot would be in grass which would properly set off the lot and the planting. Provision for
the placing of cut flowers should be made adjacent to the marker. Such a lot would be in very good
taste and of very good design.
If a monument was not used; an urn would take the place of the monument and the bed.
TREES AND SHRUBS:
The City reserves the right to do any and all planting of trees and shrubs in the Cemetery but may
issue a planting permit on written request of a lot owner when accompanied by a suitable landscape
plan designating material to be used and the location of same on the lot. Such application should be
made at least two weeks prior to the planting season in the spring or fall.
The City will remove without notice trees or shrubs planted in violation of this rule.
The trimming, pruning or removing of any branch or bloom from any tree or shrub in the cemetery
shall be entirely under the supervision of the City.
CUT FLOWERS:
Cut flowers will be allowed at any time when suitably placed. The City suggests the setting of the
patented flower vase which sets into the ground when not in use and leaves the surface of the lot
clear.
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