Boonville Sexton ordinance (§ 6-14)

Under this chapter the sexton of the cemeteries of the city shall be the head of the City of Boonville Parks and Recreation Department. In this regard the duties of the sexton are and he/she is hereby authorized and required to:

(1) To cause to be dug and filled and tamped all graves, vaults and other places for the interment of the dead in said cemetery.

(2) To watch over, care for and protect all buildings, fences, and other property pertaining to said cemetery, as well as the tools and implements in his charge belonging to the city and shall keep the same in good order and condition.

(3) To report to the city administrator any repairs he may deem necessary to be made, and, with consent of the city administrator and the city council shall cause such repairs to be made.

(4) To prevent trespassing being committed on the cemetery grounds; and, so far as practicable, to preserve from defacement or injury, all tombstones, monuments, vaults, enclosures, shrubbery or other property within or on said cemetery grounds; to arrest any

person or have to be arrested any persons found trespassing on said cemetery grounds or injuring, defacing or destroying any grave, vault, tombstone, monument, shrubbery or other property within or on said cemetery grounds, and to bring the person or persons so arrested before the police judge to be dealt with according to the law.

(5) To keep the cemetery free and clear from

litter, brush, weeds or other encumbrances, and shall cut the grass, weeds, brush off the grounds, also shall cut off all decayed limbs and branches of trees and shrubs and remove the same. He shall not at any time cut down any tree or trees upon the grounds without being so ordered by the advisory board, city administrator or city council. Old flowers, containers are to be picked up regularly. Roadways are to be kept in good and safe condition.

(6) Not to inter or permit the interment or other

disposition of any body in the cemetery unless it is accompanied by a burial, removal or transit permit issued by the local registrar of the state board of health, according to the statutes of this state. The sexton shall indorse upon the permit the date of interment, over his signature, and shall return all permits so indorsed to the local registrar of this district within ten days from the date of interment or within the time fixed by the local board of health. A signed hold harmless statement shall be furnished by the local mortician at the time of each burial declaring the name, age, sex, date of passing, lot number and location, undertakers name, address, and date of interment to the sexton. A form will be provided to the funeral homes which is to be completed to comply with this section.

(7) To keep a record of all interments made in

the cemetery, stating the name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial and name and address of the undertaker and the lot and portion of lot upon which each body is buried. Said records shall all at times be open to public inspection. He shall also promptly furnish the same information, in writing, to the city clerk who shall keep a like record thereof in the clerk's office.

(8) The sexton shall in all respects be governed by the laws of the state applicable to sextons and keepers of the cemeteries, and shall perform all duties imposed upon him by the laws of this state.

(9) The sexton (department head of the parks and recreation,) shall directly supervise the maintenance crew in charge of the care of the city owned cemeteries.