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CEMETERY MAINTENANCE POLICY
The City of Winner Cemetery maintenance employees will fill, sod and/or seed, water, mow and provide for the general maintenance of each and every grave site within the area know as the Winner City Cemetery. Individuals may care for the site of an immediate family member's grave only. This is limited to mowing and many not interfere with the maintenance crew and the performance of their duties. No one is allowed within the cemetery from 9:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. daily. Permanent grave markers, memorials, headstones and/or footstones may be placed on each grave site by qualified monument companies, provided placement is accomplished as directed in compliance with existing city ordinances and under the supervision of cemetery personnel. Maintenance of those markers, etc., shall be the financial responsibility of surviving family members. If maintenance is required, as determined by city authorities, the city shall have the right to hire monument companies or use city personnel to restore such markers, etc., to an upright or ground level position, whichever is necessary as determined by the original placement of the marker. In the event that the monument, marker, headstone or footstone is damaged or destroyed, in the process of repositioning, the city and its employees shall not be held liable. Every reasonable effort shall be taken to provide proper and careful restoration of the marker, etc., to its original position. Vases which are significantly damaged or destroyed by city crews will be placed by the city at city expense. Replacement of vases damaged or destroyed by natural wear or elements shall be the responsibility of family members. The city will not assume responsibility for vandalism. Requests for vase replacement must be considered by a Cemetery Committee representative to determine responsibility. Flowers, temporary memorials, or decorations may be placed on the grave site for one week prior to Memorial Day and may remain on the grave site for one week following Memorial Day. The city will not assume responsibility for, or salvage of, any decorative items so placed. No shrubs, bushes, trees or live growing plants may be planted at any place of time within the City Cemetery by any individual other than regular Cemetery maintenance personnel. Flowers, plants or decorations may be placed at any time, provided they are placed in vases or receptacles, which are an integral part of the headstone, memorial, marker or footstone and do not inhibit the general maintenance of the Cemetery. Adopted by the Winner City Council, July 16, 1990 |
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