DISCLAIMER: Town Of Maine Cemetery has never and does not offer pre need contracts
LOTS
1) No sale, transfer of assignment of any lot shall be valid without the consent of the Association endorsed on the conveyance. Any new deeds approved will have a charge per plot. 2) Each lot owner shall notify the Association of any changes in his/her postal address. 3) All work upon lots shall be done under the direction of the Cemetery Manager. 4) At the expiration of one year, all graves on lots which are not paid for may, at the discretion of the Board of Trustees, be declared forfeited. 5) Sales of plots gives family’s the rights to use for burial purposes only. Deeds will be issued for each plot sold. It does not give the ownership of the land. Groundskeepers have the right to set equipment anywhere needed to do the work necessary within the grounds of the Cemetery.
INTERMENTS
1) Bodies will not be interred unless burial is accompanied by the proper burial permit. 2) Lot Owners desiring graves to be opened, or other work to be done, may be required to exhibit the deed for the lot, or to give other satisfactory evidence of ownership. 3) All graves shall be dug by workman employed by the Association for that purpose. No fi lling, sodding, seeding, boxing, mounding or other work shall be done except by such employees. No grave grave shall be less than four (4) feet below the level of the nearest walk. 4) Disinterment will not be accomplished without the consent of the Cemetery Manager and such action shall be done under Manager direction and by workmen employed by the Association. 5) Request for the opening of a grave shall be given in suffi cient time to allow eight hours of daylight for the work.
HEADSTONES
1) Wire designs containing fl owers shall be removed as soon as fl owers fade. Th e Association will not be responsible for loss to any portable articles left upon any lot, grave, or other part of the Cemetery. No bench’s shall be allowed and will be removed unless approved by the management. 2) All monuments and markers shall be set upon foundations built of solid concrete made only by Cemetery workmen. Lawn level and smaller headstones may be set in Limestone foundations. 3) Th e Cemetery will engage in the sale of headstones to be designed and ordered by the Cemetery staff . Types of foundations will have a charge to be determined at the time of sale by the Cemetery manager. Fee schedules are available from the offi ce. (BACK)
4) Lot owners desiring foundations to be put in must order same at least fi ft een (15) days in advance of the date that the setting is to be done. No masonry requiring the use of cement or mortor shall be done when the weather is such that injury from frost may occur. All foundations must be fi nished true and level. All foundations shall be installed by workmen employed by the Cemetery.
PLANTING OF TREES, ETC.
1) Permission must be maintained from the Cemetery Manager before planting any tree or shrub and no tree or shrub growing within the Cemetery shall be removed without the Manager’s consent. 2) If any tree or shrub situated in any lot shall become unsightly, dangerous or detrimental to the adjacent lot or walks, Cemetery Manager shall have the right and it it shall be its duty to remove said tree or shrubs, or such parts thereof as may be necessary. 3) If anything be placed on or in any lot, which shall be deemed off ensive, improper or injurious to surrounding lots, the Cemetery Manager shall have right and it shall be its duty to enter upon said lot and remove said object or objects. 4) Aft er a bed or a grave is prepared, owners may, if they choose, set out their own fl owers. Plants set out in a unsightly manner, or left uncared for, will be removed. No loose stones or borders that
can block or impede the equipment necessary will be allowed and will be removed. Th ese can be a haz- ard to both the equipment and or the employee and will be removed.
5) Th e Cemetery Manager may take such action as may seem necessary, though not expressly authorized by the rules, in order to protect the property of the lot and grave owners or of the Cemetery Employee from injury, to preserve peace and good order, or to prevent injury to lots, graves, grounds or buildings. 6) In the interest of harmony and general appearance of the Cemetery, all so-called improvements made without the consent of the Cemetery Manager will be subject to removal without notice to the owners. 7) Persons discarding rubbish in other than receptacles provided will be subject to penalty.
MISCELLANEOUS
1) Persons or picnic parties with refreshments will not be permitted within the Cemetery without consent. 2) Persons with fi rearms will not be permitted within the Cemetery and no one shall be permitted to disturb the quiet and good order of the place, except veterans observances. 3) Picking fl owers, wild or cultured, breaking or injuring any trees, plant or shrub, or in any way injuring any monument, headstone or ornament, or other structure or property within the Cemetery will, under the State law, subject the off ender to severe penalties. 4) Holiday decorations can be removed by Cemetery personel four (4) weeks or sooner aft er each holiday. Leaf removal season runs from early November through the middle of December. All loose decorations should be removed during this time. Christmas decorations run from mid December to the end of January.
