Decoration Guidelines

Generally, guidelines for decorations are intended to unify the cemetery and maintain the grounds in a manner befitting the memory of a Loved one interred there. However, it is important for lot holders, visitors and employees to note that some guidelines address safety issues as in the ban on glass containers and wire pins.

1. Please do not throw any refuse in the cemetery. What you carry in, please carry out. Remember, you would not like someone else to litter on your family plot. Be courteous and respectful of others.

2. The cemetery reserves the right to itself, the entire control of every tree shrub or plant within the cemetery, and the right to removal of the same without notification or consultation.

3. Urns must be placed to the right or the left of the headstone, if the number of lots purchased permits. One urn per single grave is permitted. A double grave plot may accommodate two urns, one on each side.

4. Urns already on the lots should be filled by June 15th or they may be removed.

5. Artificial flowers and similar decorations shall be permitted for a single season. If they become unsightly or weather worn, they will be removed.

6. All flowers must be placed in a fiberglass, granite, concrete or clay pot. Glass containers are strictly forbidden and will be removed.

7. No edging material such as plastic, steel, marble, wood chips, etc. will be permitted.

8. No planting of trees or shrubs will be permitted on the graves or lots. All flowers are permitted on the side of the permanent or temporary markers in the proper containers.

9. All flower pots must be removed by October 15th. After that date they may be removed by the caretakers. Flower pots become a serious hazard when covered by snow and may cause serious injury to someone attending a funeral in the winter if we are able to open the grave for that family.

10. All winter decorations should be removed by March 15th.

11. Please shut the water faucets off (tightly) after using them. Water will be available for use from mid-May until mid-October.

12. The cemetery cannot be responsible for decorations left on the grounds.

13. Any decorations that are deemed inappropriate, undignified, harmful or hazardous will be removed without notification or consultation.

14. It is appropriate that these regulations be observed in order to maintain a well-kept cemetery. Your cooperation in this matter is respectfully requested and the observance of these regulations will enable us to render you greater service and maintain a beautiful cemetery.

Guidelines for Burial

Specifications for memorial work:

General

1.     Cemetery management reserves the right at all times to approve and prescribe the kind, size, design, symbolism, craftsmanship, quality and material of memorials, inscriptions, monuments, or markers placed or to be placed in the cemetery.

2.     Inscriptions of a non-religious nature, limited in size, may be permitted with cemetery approval.

Memorial dealers

1.     Memorial dealers will be required to furnish for approval, blue prints or sketches of proposed monuments or markers, specifying size, quality of granite, and all inscriptions.

2.     Applications for foundations must be submitted from the dealers to the cemetery management for approval.

3.     All foundations will be installed by the cemetery.

4.     Location and position for which a memorial is to be placed or erected on a lot will be subject to the approval and under the supervision of cemetery management.

5.     Any memorial that varies with the specifications as stated on the foundation order will not be permitted.

6.     Only cemetery approved temporary grave markers will be permitted on the grave.

7.     When work has been completed, memorial dealers will ensure that the lot and surrounding area will be restored to the same condition as before the work commenced. The restoration will be at the expense of the memorial dealer.

8.     Dealers’ cards or advertisements of any kind will not be cut or placed on any memorial. Certain manufacturer’s logos for warranty purposes only, will be permitted.

9.     Should any monument or marker become unsightly or a safety hazard, the cemetery will attempt to contact the lot owner(s) to correct the condition.

10.  The cemetery reserves the right to deny entrance into the cemetery to any dealer or agent in memorials, who does not observe the rules and regulations of the cemetery.

Burial guidelines:

Interments

1.     All funerals entering the cemetery will be under the sole discretion of a designated cemetery representative.

2.     New York law requires that no disposition of remains be made in any cemetery or crematory without a permit from the registrar of vital statistics having jurisdiction in the matter. Permits must be presented to a designated representative of the cemetery or crematory before interment or other disposition begins.

3.     Interments, memorials or vault deliveries will not be permitted on Sunday, designated holidays or holy days of obligation.

4.     No person may be interred in any grave or crypt without written consent of the owns or their heirs.

5.     When instructions regarding the precise site of an interment space cannot be obtained, are indefinite or for any reason the appropriate gravesite cannot be opened at the time of interment, the cemetery may, in its discretion, defer final interment until problems relating to the interment are resolved.

6.     The cemetery will not be held responsible for any order given by telephone. In all cases, a family representative must approve the location prior to interment.

7.     In the event of inclement weather, cemetery representatives reserve the right to determine whether an interment may take place as scheduled.

8.     Normally a maximum of one interment or two inurnments of cremated remains will be permitted in a single grave or crypt space.

9.     All ground interments will be made in a vault made of concrete or other cemetery approved material.

Disinterments

Before any disinterment can take place, cemetery personnel must be certain that the following procedures have been followed and compiled with:

1.     Application for disinterment of a body will be made at the cemetery office. Application documents will be based upon application of the husband and/or wife, child or children, parents or next-of-kin of the deceased person or court order.

2.     The completed form must have been accepted by the cemetery before any action can be taken.

3.     Family must make arrangements for a funeral director or his representative to be present

4.     Family and funeral director must be informed of the following:

a.      The cemetery discourages the presence of the family at the disinterment. They will instead rely on and be represented by the funeral director.

b.     In order to make all necessary arrangements, the cemetery requires sufficient advance notice to service the request. The cemetery will coordinate scheduling of the disinterment with the funeral director.

c.      Cemetery employees will open the grave or crypt to permit the funeral director or the vault company (at the funeral director’s designation) to examine the condition of the vault and casket.

d.     It will be the funeral director’s responsibility to ensure that the vault and casket are in good physical condition.

e.      If a problem is encountered with the vault or casket, the funeral director and his employees will transfer the remains into a suitable container. The funeral director will be responsible for transporting the remains to the new location.

f.      It is further understood that cemetery management, after consultation with the funeral director in attendance, may direct that the disinterment procedure to terminated if it appears that the remains have decomposed to such an extent that the disinterment cannot be completed.

g.     If the disinterment is within the cemetery, and the old memorial meets the regulations of the new location, the family must make the necessary arrangements for the resetting of the stone at the time the disinterment arrangements are made. If the disinterment is transferred to another cemetery, any and all memorialization must be removed (at the family’s expense) if the lot is to be returned to the cemetery.

h.     A disinterment permit is required for all removals out of the cemetery.

i.       All arrangements with the funeral director and/or vault company and any charged involved with either or both are separate from any cemetery charges.

Purchase Information - updated July 1, 2024

Grave and grave opening:

Cost of one grave (new section) - $700.00

Cost of one grave (statue garden) - $800.00

Cost of grave opening - $800.00

(there is an additional $75 surcharge for all Saturday burials)

Monuments:
Monument setting fee two foot length + - $100.00

Monument setting fee one foot eleven inches or less - $50.00

Cremation costs:

Cremation Grave opening (small urn) - $500.00

Cremation Grave opening (urn vault) - $500.00

Crypt and grave purchases

1.     The purchaser of a grave or crypt does not acquire the property itself, but only the “right of burial”.

2.     In making a selection, due consideration should be given by the purchaser as to the location, number of graves or crypts that will be needed, as well as the style of the memorialization they wish.

3.     The grave or crypt must be paid in full before an interment can take place.

4.     The grave and grave opening fee for immediate use must be paid prior to or on the funeral date. Our 30 day grace period for the payment of the reserved grave will be extended to the families, however no permanent grave stone or marker will be installed until all reserved graves are paid in full.

5.     The interment fee is a separate fee and distinct charge from the grave or crypt purchase and must be paid in full before the interment can take place.

6.     A deed will be issued after full payment has been made for the grave or crypt purchase.

7.     No transfer or assignment of any grave or crypt, or interest in the same, will be valid without the consent of the cemetery. A record of such transfer or assignment will be entered on the records of the cemetery.

Returns

If, in the sole discretion of the cemetery, a grave or crypt can be utilized by the cemetery, it may be returned under the following conditions:

1.     The grave or crypt to be returned is not marked with a family or individual memorial. Any existing memorialization must be removed at the family’s expense.

2.     Proper notarized statements to show proof of ownership must be submitted to the cemetery.

3.     The owner will only get the amount refunded to them that they purchased the grave or crypt for (not the current price of graves or crypts).