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REPORT TO MAYOR AND COUNCIL
PRESENTED: FROM: SUBJECT:
JULY 6, 2009 - REGULAR MEETING RECREATION, CULTURE, AND PARKS DIVISION LANGLEY CEMETERY BYLAW, 1994 No. 3202 AMENDMENT BYLAW 2009 NO. 4765
REPORT: FILE:
09-98 3900-20
RECOMMENDATION(S): That Council give first, second and third reading to Langley Cemetery Bylaw, 1994 No. 3202 Amendment Bylaw 2009 No. 4765. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Langley Cemetery Bylaw exists to incorporate all legislative requirements of the “Cemetery and Funeral Services Act” as they pertain to the Township’s operation of Langley Lawn Cemetery, Fort Langley Cemetery and Murrayville Cemetery. Currently Township cemetery fees and charges are embedded in the Township’s Cemetery Bylaw. With the goal of consolidating, where practical, the Township’s fees and charges into one bylaw, this “housekeeping” report is recommending the amendment of the Bylaw to remove all references to Fees and Charges. Finance Division is concurrently bringing forward an amendment to the Township’s Fees and Charges Bylaw, including a revised schedule of fees and charges that pertains to Recreation, Culture, and Parks Division, including cemetery services. By removing fees and charges from the Langley Cemetery Bylaw and embedding them in the Township’s Fees and Charges Bylaw, it will simplify the process for the Division to review and enact changes to cemetery fees and charges on an annual basis. PURPOSE: The purpose of this report is to seek Council’s authorization for the Langley Cemetery Bylaw, 1994 No. 3202 – Amendment Bylaw, 2009 No. 4765.
DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS: This bylaw amendment administratively removes all references to fees and charges from the Cemetery Bylaw allowing for their inclusion with all other Recreation, Culture, and Parks Services fees as a Schedule contained within the Finance Division’s concurrent Fees and Charges Bylaw amendment. This amendment to the Cemetery Bylaw is therefore mainly for “housekeeping” purposes. The concurrent Fees and Charges Bylaw amendment addresses the actual fees and charges for cemetery services and the rationale for their adjustment. Staff will be undertaking a full review of the Cemetery Bylaw over the next number of months and will be reporting back to Council later in 2009 with an amended (or new) bylaw based on this comprehensive review.
Respectfully submitted,
David Leavers DIRECTOR, RECREATION, CULTURE, AND PARKS for RECREATION, CULTURE, AND PARKS DIVISION
This report has been prepared in consultation with the following listed departments. CONCURRENCES Division FINANCE
Name DERRICK SPARKS
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ATTACHMENT B THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY LANGLEY CEMETERY BYLAW 1994 NO. 3202 AMENDMENT BYLAW 2009 NO.4765 EXPLANATORY NOTE
Bylaw 4765 revises the Langley Cemetery Bylaw 1994 No. 3202 to remove all references to Fees and Charges. These changes will be effective the day following adoption of Amendment Bylaw 2009 No. 4765. All references to Fees and Charges pertaining to cemetery operations can now be found in Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY LANGLEY CEMETERY BYLAW 1994, No. 3202 AMENDMENT BYLAW 2009, No. 4765
The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Langley, in Open Meeting assembled, ENACTS as follows: 1.
This bylaw may be cited for all purposes as "Langley Cemetery Bylaw 1994 No. 3202 Amendment Bylaw 2009 No. 4765."
2.
It is established that the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Langley shall be hereby appointed as a Board of Cemetery Trustees.
3.
In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires, 'Corporation' shall mean The Corporation of the Township of Langley. 'Clerk'
shall mean the person duly appointed as such from time to time by the Council, or his designate.
'Treasurer'
shall mean the person duly appointed as such from time to time by the Council, or his designate.
'Caretaker'
shall mean the person, or persons, who are the Caretaker(s) of the Municipal Cemeteries.
'Cemetery'
shall mean and include any parcel or tract of land owned, used, or maintained by the Corporation of the Township of Langley as a cemetery.
'Medical Health Officer' shall mean the person duly appointed from time to time to act as Medical Health Officer for The Corporation of the Township of Langley. 'Council'
shall mean the Council of The Corporation of the Township of Langley.
'Mayor'
shall include the Acting Mayor.
'Resident'
shall mean any person presently residing in the Township of Langley, and who has continuously resided in the Municipality for a period not less than six months.
'Non-Resident' shall mean any person not covered under the interpretation of Resident. 'Memory Garden' shall mean a designated area in the cemetery set aside specifically for the multiple interment of cremated remains. 'Veteran'
shall mean any member of the armed forces, who is a veteran of a war. Only a veteran or the spouse of a veteran may be buried in a veteran grave, provided that the veteran predeceases the spouse.
'Child'
shall mean a person between the ages of 2 and 12 years, inclusive.
'Infant'
shall mean a person up to the age of 24 months.
The use of words signifying the masculine shall include the feminine. 3.
The following lands owned by the Corporation are set aside for use for cemetery purposes: (a)
LANGLEY LAWN CEMETERY legally described as: Lot Thirteen (13) of the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) Section Thirty-Five (35) Township Seven (7), Plan Three Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-Six (3376), N.W.D.
(b)
FORT LANGLEY CEMETERY legally described as: Lot B of District Lot Seventy-nine (79), Group Two (2) Sketch Seven/Four Hundred and Ninety Five/Four Thousand One Hundred and Eighty Seven A, (7/495/4187A), N.W.D.; and Lot Eleven (11), Block A, District Lot Seventy-Nine (79) Group Two (2), Plan Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five (865), N.W.D.; and Lot Ten (10), Block A District Lot Seventy-nine (79) Group Two (2), Plan Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five (865), N.W.D.
(c)
MURRAYVILLE CEMETERY legally described as: Part of the North-East Quarter, Section Thirty-Six (36) Township Seven (7), Map Six Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-One (6121), N.W.D.; and Part Four (4) Acres More of Less, North-East Quarter, Section Thirty-Six (36), Township Seven (7), Plan Six Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty (6520), N.W.D.; and Part of 0.0875 acre portion of Lot Four (4), North East Quarter of Section ThirtySix (36), Township Seven (7) Sketch Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-One (11761), N.W.D.
(d)
A copy of the plans of the cemetery are filed with the Registrar, Cemeteries Branch, Ministry of Labour and Consumer Services, and copies shall also be kept available for public inspection in the Municipal office and at such other places as deemed necessary.
LICENCE TO USE CEMETERY 4.
The Council may grant to any person paying the applicable fees, a licence in the form of Schedule 'A' to this bylaw, for use by him, or his executors or administrators, of any one or more grave spaces which may be vacant and unlicenced in the Cemetery.
5.
A request by an individual to purchase more than two grave spaces may require the approval of Council.
6.
7.
(a)
If the holder of a license to use and occupy grave space in the cemetery shall at any time wish to dispose of or transfer to another person this right, he shall first furnish the Clerk full particulars of the name and address of the person to whom such disposal or transfer is desired to be made.
(b)
Upon receipt of a transfer fee and upon compliance with the requirements of this bylaw, the Clerk shall affect the transfer by an endorsement upon the license and shall record the transfer in the books or other records kept for that purpose.
All licenses issued for the use of grave space in the cemetery shall be subject to the provisions of this bylaw and all bylaws now or hereafter passed by Council.
GRAVE SPACES MAY BE RECLAIMED 8.
(a)
Where a grave space previously sold has not been used, and: (i)
the license holder with the right of interment, if living, would be at least 90 years of age
(ii)
a period of at least 50 years has elapsed from the date the grave space was sold, and
(iii)
the corporation has been unable to locate the license holder after having given notice as required by section 34 (2) of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act", the Corporation may apply, as prescribed, to the registrar for permission to reclaim the lot and sell it to another person.
(b) Where a grave space is reclaimed and sold with permission of the registrar and the space is subsequently required for use by the license holder with the right of interment the Corporation shall provide another lot of equal or greater value acceptable to the license holder or a person referred to in section 51 (1) of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act". FEES AND CHARGES 9.
(a)
The fees for grave spaces, interment, disinterment, care of graves, goods, and other cemetery related services offered by the Corporation, are as set out in the Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
(b)
The applicable fees for goods or services as set out in the Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw shall be paid in advance, at the Corporation's offices.
REFUNDS 10.
(a)
The holder of a license, his heirs, executors, or administrators may apply for a refund for an unused grave space. If approved, the refund shall be 90% of the current resident cost, less the current care fund fee.
(b)
The person requesting the refund shall be required to produce the original license and proof satisfactory to the Corporation of his right to claim a refund, or if the original license is not available provide an affidavit attesting to his right to the original license and proof of his right to claim a refund.
PERMISSION TO INTER, DISINTER AND EXHUME 11.
No body other than a deceased human body shall be interred in the cemetery and no interment shall be made until a permit in the form of Schedule 'A' to this bylaw has been completed and the fee for interment paid to the Corporation.
12.
All applications for a permit to inter in a cemetery must be made to the Caretaker or to the Municipal Hall, at least 48 hours before the proposed time of interment.
13.
Any person who makes application for an interment permit, or who requires an interment to be made, shall furnish a statement of the name, age, date of death of the deceased, date and time of funeral, whether or not death was caused by a communicable disease in accordance with the "Regulations for the Control of Communicable Diseases" made under the "Health Act", and such other information as may be reasonably required.
14.
(a)
Where the Health Officer directs, pursuant to the "Regulations for the Control of Communicable Diseases" or otherwise, that a body be buried in the cemetery during any period when the Corporation's offices are closed, permission to inter in the cemetery shall, if possible, be obtained from the Clerk.
(b)
Where permission from the Clerk is not possible to obtain, and a burial in the cemetery is performed under the conditions of sub-section (a), the person who permitted the burial and the person who performed the burial shall report the matter to the Clerk with full details of the deceased, together with such applicable fees, if such fees have not already been paid.
(c)
The information required to be given to the Clerk under this bylaw shall be provided to the Clerk as soon after such interment as the Corporation's offices are opened.
(a)
No deceased person interred in the cemetery shall be disinterred without a written order from the Municipal Clerk or his designate, and in the case of exhumation, except in compliance with Section 58 of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act".
(b)
There will be no disinterment or exhumation from the memory garden.
15.
16.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cremate or bury a deceased person within the limits of the Township of Langley except as authorized under the terms of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" and the Regulations made thereunder, and in compliance with this bylaw.
17.
The holder of a license to use and occupy grave space in the cemetery shall not allow an interment, transfer or disposal of the grave space to another person, group or organization except in compliance with and subject to the provisions of this bylaw.
18.
(a)
Where the body of a person who died while suffering a communicable disease is to be buried in the cemetery, any instruction given by the Health Officer respecting the interment shall be fully and carefully followed by those who perform the interment.
19.
(b)
Where a body delivered to the cemetery for interment is subject to direction of the Health Officer under the terms of the "Regulations for the Control of Communicable Diseases" made under the "Health Act", the person delivering the body to the cemetery shall inform the Caretaker.
(a)
Each interment in the cemetery shall be made in a grave dug to a depth sufficient to provide for not less than three feet (914.4 mm) of earth between the upper surface of the coffin or grave liner and the level of the ground surrounding the grave.
(b)
No more than two casket interments shall be permitted in any one grave except for cremated remains. In addition to two casket interments, up to eight (8) cremated remains may be placed in one grave.
(c)
Where two interments are permitted in any one grave, the last interment shall have at least three feet (914.4 mm) of earth between the coffin or grave liner and the level of the ground surrounding the grave; except that a baby under the age of six months may be interred in the same coffin as the parent, and where the remains of a family destroyed by fire are contained in one casket or coffin.
(d)
A precast concrete grave liner or a fibreglass grave liner, the specifications of which are satisfactory to the Corporation, shall be used for each interment in a standard adult or child grave, except in the case of cremated remains. In some instances, and at the discretion of the cemetery Caretaker, a grave liner may be waived for a child's grave.
(e)
Cremated remains of a deceased person may, when in a container sheathed and sealed in not less than one and one half inches of concrete, be interred in a grave to provide not less than twelve inches of earth between the upper surface of the concrete-encased container and the level of the ground surrounding the grave.
(f)
No grave liner shall be provided by the Corporation free of charge.
20.
No interments shall be permitted in the cemetery except between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon.
21.
No interments shall be permitted in the cemetery on Saturday, Sunday, or any statutory holiday unless written permission of the Clerk is first obtained. With the exception of memory garden interments, the fee for Saturday and Sunday burial, opening and closing of the grave is to be twice the weekday cost and is to be three times the weekday cost for Statutory Holidays.
22.
No grave shall be dug, or opened by any person other than the Caretaker or other person duly authorized by him, or by the Clerk.
23.
No vaults, or other methods of interment above ground level, shall be permitted in the cemetery.
24.
The interment of cremated remains in an area designated as a Memory Garden shall be without a container and shall only be performed under the direction of the Caretaker.
ADMINISTRATION AND CARE FUND 25.
The Clerk shall maintain records as necessary for the administration and management of the cemetery as required by the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act".
26.
The Clerk is hereby authorized on behalf of the Municipality to issue a license in the form set out as Schedule 'A' to this bylaw in respect of any grave space in the cemetery, according to the scale of fees and charges specified in the Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
27.
The Clerk, or his designate, shall issue all permits for interment required by this bylaw, except as otherwise provided.
28.
Upon issuing any permits for interment in the cemetery, or upon receiving an order for exhumation from the proper authority, the Clerk shall notify the Caretaker before the time of the intended interment or exhumation, giving the name of the deceased and the number and location of the grave space concerned.
29.
(a)
A fund shall be established to be known as 'The Cemetery Care Fund' and such fund shall be administered in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations made under the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" for the establishment and administration of a Municipal Cemetery Care Fund and in accordance with the procedures hereinafter set out.
(b)
An account shall be established to be known as 'The Cemetery Care Fund Account' into which the Treasurer shall pay all funds received for Care Fund purposes and all such funds shall be deposited in said account, and there held pending investment as hereinafter provided.
(c)
On all licenses for the use of grave space, and on all contracts or agreements for the sale of such licenses, the amount required to be used for Care Fund purposes shall be specified.
(d)
Investment of funds received for Care Fund purposes shall be made as required by the Regulations under the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" applicable to Municipal Cemetery Care Funds.
(e)
The income from the 'Cemetery Care Fund' including any appreciation thereof, shall be used for the sole purpose of upkeep and maintenance of the property licensed and the cemetery of which it forms a part.
(f)
The principal sum of the cemetery care fund shall not be reduced otherwise than in accordance with an order of the Minister made pursuant to the Regulations under the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act".
MEMORIALS 30.
No person shall place on any grave space in the cemetery a memorial marker or tablet until the Care Fund, setting fee, and burial expenses have been paid to the Municipality.
31.
No memorial tablet will be permitted in an area designated as a Memory Garden.
32.
A memorial may be installed on a grave in the cemetery subject to the requirements of this bylaw and subject to the following: (a)
All memorials shall be of the tablet type and may only be of granite or bronze.
(b)
All bronze memorial tablets shall be attached to concrete bases not less than four (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a four inch (4") (100 mm) concrete surround, except for infant and cremation graves which shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a three inch (3") (75 mm) concrete surround.
(c)
On single, double depth and child graves the granite memorial tablets shall be not larger than twenty inches by twelve inches (20" X 12") (500 mm X 300 mm) and be not less than three inches (3") (75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a four inch (4") (100 mm) concrete surround.
(d)
On infants' and side by side cremation graves the memorial tablet shall be not larger than sixteen inches by ten inches (16" X 10")(400 mm X 250 mm) and be not less than three inches (3") (75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a three inch (3") (75 mm) concrete surround.
(e)
On a side by side adult grave the granite memorial tablet shall be not larger than thirty inches by eighteen inches (30" X 18")(750 mm X 450 mm) and be not less than three inches (3") (75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4")(100 mm) in thickness and with a four inch (4") (100 mm) concrete surround.
(f)
On single cremation plots the granite memorial tablet shall be not larger than twelve inches by eight inches (12" x 8")(300 mm X 200 mm) and not less than three inches (3")(75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4")(100 mm) in thickness and with a three inch (3") (75 mm) concrete surround.
(g)
All memorial tablets to be placed shall be received at the Municipal Works Yard Stores from the Monument Contractor and shall be installed by the cemetery workmen under the supervision of the Caretaker.
(h)
All granite memorial tablets shall be set with the top surface of the tablet even with the ground.
(i)
All concrete bases and concrete surrounds shall be supplied by the Municipality in accordance with the fees as set out in the Township’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
(j)
The Municipality shall not be responsible for any breakage or damage to any tablet except as shall arise out of the carelessness and negligence of the Caretaker or his assistants.
GENERAL 33.
No grave, or grave space, shall be defined by a fence, railing, coping, curbing, hedge, or by any other marking save by a memorial tablet as set out in this bylaw.
34.
Cut flowers, wreaths and floral offerings may be placed on graves but may be removed by the Caretaker when their condition is considered by him to be detrimental to the beauty of the cemetery.
35.
Boxes, shells, toys, wire screens, arbours, trellises, tripods or any other objects are prohibited on any grave. Between March 1 and November 1, no artificial flowers are to be placed.
36.
No person shall plant, remove, cut down, or destroy, any trees, shrubs, plants, bulbs or rocks in the cemetery other than an employee of The Corporation authorized to do so.
37.
All persons are prohibited from damaging, or defacing any memorial, monument, fence, gate, or structure in the cemetery, or any improvements in the cemetery.
38.
Owners of automobiles or other vehicles will be responsible for any damage done by them or their drivers in violation of the provisions of this bylaw.
39.
No person shall solicit orders for or place or cause to be placed advertising material for markers, tablets, memorials, curbings, cappings, or like works within the limits of a cemetery.
40.
All persons and funeral processions in the cemetery shall obey the instructions of the Caretaker or his assistant, and any person not behaving with proper decorum within the cemetery, or disturbing the quiet and good order of the cemetery may be evicted therefrom by the Caretaker.
41.
Dogs shall not be permitted in the cemetery and no person shall allow a dog owned by him or in his care to be in the cemetery.
42.
Any person who willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure placed in the cemetery, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of the cemetery, or any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure aforesaid or lot within the cemetery, or willfully destroys, cuts, breaks or injures any shrub, or plant, or plays at any game or sport, or discharges firearms (save at a military funeral) or who willfully or unlawfully disturbs persons assembled for the purpose of burying a body therein, or who commits a nuisance, or at any time behaves in an indecent or unseemly manner, or deposits any rubbish or offensive matter or thing in a cemetery, or in any way violates any grave, tomb, tombstone, vault, or other structure within the same, shall be guilty of an infraction of this bylaw, and liable to the penalties hereof.
43.
No person shall be within the cemetery during the period dusk to dawn.
44.
Any person who contravenes or violates any of the provisions of this bylaw or who suffers or permits anything to be done in contravention or violation of this bylaw or who neglects to do anything required to be done pursuant to this bylaw commits an offence and shall upon conviction be liable to a fine of not less than $300.00 and not more than the maximum penalties provided by the Offence Act from time to time and, where the
offence is a continuing one, each day that the offence is continued shall constitute a separate offence. 45.
Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the administration of the cemetery shall be carried out at all times in accordance with the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" and Regulations made thereunder.
READ A FIRST TIME the
day of
, 2009
READ A SECOND TIME the
day of
, 2009
READ A THIRD TIME the
day of
, 2009
RECONSIDERED AND ADOPTED the
day of
, 2009
Mayor
Deputy Township Clerk
PRESENTED: FROM: SUBJECT:
JULY 6, 2009 - REGULAR MEETING RECREATION, CULTURE, AND PARKS DIVISION LANGLEY CEMETERY BYLAW, 1994 No. 3202 AMENDMENT BYLAW 2009 NO. 4765
REPORT: FILE:
09-98 3900-20
RECOMMENDATION(S): That Council give first, second and third reading to Langley Cemetery Bylaw, 1994 No. 3202 Amendment Bylaw 2009 No. 4765. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Langley Cemetery Bylaw exists to incorporate all legislative requirements of the “Cemetery and Funeral Services Act” as they pertain to the Township’s operation of Langley Lawn Cemetery, Fort Langley Cemetery and Murrayville Cemetery. Currently Township cemetery fees and charges are embedded in the Township’s Cemetery Bylaw. With the goal of consolidating, where practical, the Township’s fees and charges into one bylaw, this “housekeeping” report is recommending the amendment of the Bylaw to remove all references to Fees and Charges. Finance Division is concurrently bringing forward an amendment to the Township’s Fees and Charges Bylaw, including a revised schedule of fees and charges that pertains to Recreation, Culture, and Parks Division, including cemetery services. By removing fees and charges from the Langley Cemetery Bylaw and embedding them in the Township’s Fees and Charges Bylaw, it will simplify the process for the Division to review and enact changes to cemetery fees and charges on an annual basis. PURPOSE: The purpose of this report is to seek Council’s authorization for the Langley Cemetery Bylaw, 1994 No. 3202 – Amendment Bylaw, 2009 No. 4765.
DISCUSSION/ANALYSIS: This bylaw amendment administratively removes all references to fees and charges from the Cemetery Bylaw allowing for their inclusion with all other Recreation, Culture, and Parks Services fees as a Schedule contained within the Finance Division’s concurrent Fees and Charges Bylaw amendment. This amendment to the Cemetery Bylaw is therefore mainly for “housekeeping” purposes. The concurrent Fees and Charges Bylaw amendment addresses the actual fees and charges for cemetery services and the rationale for their adjustment. Staff will be undertaking a full review of the Cemetery Bylaw over the next number of months and will be reporting back to Council later in 2009 with an amended (or new) bylaw based on this comprehensive review.
Respectfully submitted,
David Leavers DIRECTOR, RECREATION, CULTURE, AND PARKS for RECREATION, CULTURE, AND PARKS DIVISION
This report has been prepared in consultation with the following listed departments. CONCURRENCES Division FINANCE
Name DERRICK SPARKS
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ATTACHMENT B THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY LANGLEY CEMETERY BYLAW 1994 NO. 3202 AMENDMENT BYLAW 2009 NO.4765 EXPLANATORY NOTE
Bylaw 4765 revises the Langley Cemetery Bylaw 1994 No. 3202 to remove all references to Fees and Charges. These changes will be effective the day following adoption of Amendment Bylaw 2009 No. 4765. All references to Fees and Charges pertaining to cemetery operations can now be found in Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY LANGLEY CEMETERY BYLAW 1994, No. 3202 AMENDMENT BYLAW 2009, No. 4765
The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Langley, in Open Meeting assembled, ENACTS as follows: 1.
This bylaw may be cited for all purposes as "Langley Cemetery Bylaw 1994 No. 3202 Amendment Bylaw 2009 No. 4765."
2.
It is established that the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Langley shall be hereby appointed as a Board of Cemetery Trustees.
3.
In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires, 'Corporation' shall mean The Corporation of the Township of Langley. 'Clerk'
shall mean the person duly appointed as such from time to time by the Council, or his designate.
'Treasurer'
shall mean the person duly appointed as such from time to time by the Council, or his designate.
'Caretaker'
shall mean the person, or persons, who are the Caretaker(s) of the Municipal Cemeteries.
'Cemetery'
shall mean and include any parcel or tract of land owned, used, or maintained by the Corporation of the Township of Langley as a cemetery.
'Medical Health Officer' shall mean the person duly appointed from time to time to act as Medical Health Officer for The Corporation of the Township of Langley. 'Council'
shall mean the Council of The Corporation of the Township of Langley.
'Mayor'
shall include the Acting Mayor.
'Resident'
shall mean any person presently residing in the Township of Langley, and who has continuously resided in the Municipality for a period not less than six months.
'Non-Resident' shall mean any person not covered under the interpretation of Resident. 'Memory Garden' shall mean a designated area in the cemetery set aside specifically for the multiple interment of cremated remains. 'Veteran'
shall mean any member of the armed forces, who is a veteran of a war. Only a veteran or the spouse of a veteran may be buried in a veteran grave, provided that the veteran predeceases the spouse.
'Child'
shall mean a person between the ages of 2 and 12 years, inclusive.
'Infant'
shall mean a person up to the age of 24 months.
The use of words signifying the masculine shall include the feminine. 3.
The following lands owned by the Corporation are set aside for use for cemetery purposes: (a)
LANGLEY LAWN CEMETERY legally described as: Lot Thirteen (13) of the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) Section Thirty-Five (35) Township Seven (7), Plan Three Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-Six (3376), N.W.D.
(b)
FORT LANGLEY CEMETERY legally described as: Lot B of District Lot Seventy-nine (79), Group Two (2) Sketch Seven/Four Hundred and Ninety Five/Four Thousand One Hundred and Eighty Seven A, (7/495/4187A), N.W.D.; and Lot Eleven (11), Block A, District Lot Seventy-Nine (79) Group Two (2), Plan Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five (865), N.W.D.; and Lot Ten (10), Block A District Lot Seventy-nine (79) Group Two (2), Plan Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five (865), N.W.D.
(c)
MURRAYVILLE CEMETERY legally described as: Part of the North-East Quarter, Section Thirty-Six (36) Township Seven (7), Map Six Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-One (6121), N.W.D.; and Part Four (4) Acres More of Less, North-East Quarter, Section Thirty-Six (36), Township Seven (7), Plan Six Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty (6520), N.W.D.; and Part of 0.0875 acre portion of Lot Four (4), North East Quarter of Section ThirtySix (36), Township Seven (7) Sketch Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-One (11761), N.W.D.
(d)
A copy of the plans of the cemetery are filed with the Registrar, Cemeteries Branch, Ministry of Labour and Consumer Services, and copies shall also be kept available for public inspection in the Municipal office and at such other places as deemed necessary.
LICENCE TO USE CEMETERY 4.
The Council may grant to any person paying the applicable fees, a licence in the form of Schedule 'A' to this bylaw, for use by him, or his executors or administrators, of any one or more grave spaces which may be vacant and unlicenced in the Cemetery.
5.
A request by an individual to purchase more than two grave spaces may require the approval of Council.
6.
7.
(a)
If the holder of a license to use and occupy grave space in the cemetery shall at any time wish to dispose of or transfer to another person this right, he shall first furnish the Clerk full particulars of the name and address of the person to whom such disposal or transfer is desired to be made.
(b)
Upon receipt of a transfer fee and upon compliance with the requirements of this bylaw, the Clerk shall affect the transfer by an endorsement upon the license and shall record the transfer in the books or other records kept for that purpose.
All licenses issued for the use of grave space in the cemetery shall be subject to the provisions of this bylaw and all bylaws now or hereafter passed by Council.
GRAVE SPACES MAY BE RECLAIMED 8.
(a)
Where a grave space previously sold has not been used, and: (i)
the license holder with the right of interment, if living, would be at least 90 years of age
(ii)
a period of at least 50 years has elapsed from the date the grave space was sold, and
(iii)
the corporation has been unable to locate the license holder after having given notice as required by section 34 (2) of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act", the Corporation may apply, as prescribed, to the registrar for permission to reclaim the lot and sell it to another person.
(b) Where a grave space is reclaimed and sold with permission of the registrar and the space is subsequently required for use by the license holder with the right of interment the Corporation shall provide another lot of equal or greater value acceptable to the license holder or a person referred to in section 51 (1) of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act". FEES AND CHARGES 9.
(a)
The fees for grave spaces, interment, disinterment, care of graves, goods, and other cemetery related services offered by the Corporation, are as set out in the Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
(b)
The applicable fees for goods or services as set out in the Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw shall be paid in advance, at the Corporation's offices.
REFUNDS 10.
(a)
The holder of a license, his heirs, executors, or administrators may apply for a refund for an unused grave space. If approved, the refund shall be 90% of the current resident cost, less the current care fund fee.
(b)
The person requesting the refund shall be required to produce the original license and proof satisfactory to the Corporation of his right to claim a refund, or if the original license is not available provide an affidavit attesting to his right to the original license and proof of his right to claim a refund.
PERMISSION TO INTER, DISINTER AND EXHUME 11.
No body other than a deceased human body shall be interred in the cemetery and no interment shall be made until a permit in the form of Schedule 'A' to this bylaw has been completed and the fee for interment paid to the Corporation.
12.
All applications for a permit to inter in a cemetery must be made to the Caretaker or to the Municipal Hall, at least 48 hours before the proposed time of interment.
13.
Any person who makes application for an interment permit, or who requires an interment to be made, shall furnish a statement of the name, age, date of death of the deceased, date and time of funeral, whether or not death was caused by a communicable disease in accordance with the "Regulations for the Control of Communicable Diseases" made under the "Health Act", and such other information as may be reasonably required.
14.
(a)
Where the Health Officer directs, pursuant to the "Regulations for the Control of Communicable Diseases" or otherwise, that a body be buried in the cemetery during any period when the Corporation's offices are closed, permission to inter in the cemetery shall, if possible, be obtained from the Clerk.
(b)
Where permission from the Clerk is not possible to obtain, and a burial in the cemetery is performed under the conditions of sub-section (a), the person who permitted the burial and the person who performed the burial shall report the matter to the Clerk with full details of the deceased, together with such applicable fees, if such fees have not already been paid.
(c)
The information required to be given to the Clerk under this bylaw shall be provided to the Clerk as soon after such interment as the Corporation's offices are opened.
(a)
No deceased person interred in the cemetery shall be disinterred without a written order from the Municipal Clerk or his designate, and in the case of exhumation, except in compliance with Section 58 of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act".
(b)
There will be no disinterment or exhumation from the memory garden.
15.
16.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cremate or bury a deceased person within the limits of the Township of Langley except as authorized under the terms of the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" and the Regulations made thereunder, and in compliance with this bylaw.
17.
The holder of a license to use and occupy grave space in the cemetery shall not allow an interment, transfer or disposal of the grave space to another person, group or organization except in compliance with and subject to the provisions of this bylaw.
18.
(a)
Where the body of a person who died while suffering a communicable disease is to be buried in the cemetery, any instruction given by the Health Officer respecting the interment shall be fully and carefully followed by those who perform the interment.
19.
(b)
Where a body delivered to the cemetery for interment is subject to direction of the Health Officer under the terms of the "Regulations for the Control of Communicable Diseases" made under the "Health Act", the person delivering the body to the cemetery shall inform the Caretaker.
(a)
Each interment in the cemetery shall be made in a grave dug to a depth sufficient to provide for not less than three feet (914.4 mm) of earth between the upper surface of the coffin or grave liner and the level of the ground surrounding the grave.
(b)
No more than two casket interments shall be permitted in any one grave except for cremated remains. In addition to two casket interments, up to eight (8) cremated remains may be placed in one grave.
(c)
Where two interments are permitted in any one grave, the last interment shall have at least three feet (914.4 mm) of earth between the coffin or grave liner and the level of the ground surrounding the grave; except that a baby under the age of six months may be interred in the same coffin as the parent, and where the remains of a family destroyed by fire are contained in one casket or coffin.
(d)
A precast concrete grave liner or a fibreglass grave liner, the specifications of which are satisfactory to the Corporation, shall be used for each interment in a standard adult or child grave, except in the case of cremated remains. In some instances, and at the discretion of the cemetery Caretaker, a grave liner may be waived for a child's grave.
(e)
Cremated remains of a deceased person may, when in a container sheathed and sealed in not less than one and one half inches of concrete, be interred in a grave to provide not less than twelve inches of earth between the upper surface of the concrete-encased container and the level of the ground surrounding the grave.
(f)
No grave liner shall be provided by the Corporation free of charge.
20.
No interments shall be permitted in the cemetery except between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and three o'clock in the afternoon.
21.
No interments shall be permitted in the cemetery on Saturday, Sunday, or any statutory holiday unless written permission of the Clerk is first obtained. With the exception of memory garden interments, the fee for Saturday and Sunday burial, opening and closing of the grave is to be twice the weekday cost and is to be three times the weekday cost for Statutory Holidays.
22.
No grave shall be dug, or opened by any person other than the Caretaker or other person duly authorized by him, or by the Clerk.
23.
No vaults, or other methods of interment above ground level, shall be permitted in the cemetery.
24.
The interment of cremated remains in an area designated as a Memory Garden shall be without a container and shall only be performed under the direction of the Caretaker.
ADMINISTRATION AND CARE FUND 25.
The Clerk shall maintain records as necessary for the administration and management of the cemetery as required by the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act".
26.
The Clerk is hereby authorized on behalf of the Municipality to issue a license in the form set out as Schedule 'A' to this bylaw in respect of any grave space in the cemetery, according to the scale of fees and charges specified in the Corporation’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
27.
The Clerk, or his designate, shall issue all permits for interment required by this bylaw, except as otherwise provided.
28.
Upon issuing any permits for interment in the cemetery, or upon receiving an order for exhumation from the proper authority, the Clerk shall notify the Caretaker before the time of the intended interment or exhumation, giving the name of the deceased and the number and location of the grave space concerned.
29.
(a)
A fund shall be established to be known as 'The Cemetery Care Fund' and such fund shall be administered in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations made under the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" for the establishment and administration of a Municipal Cemetery Care Fund and in accordance with the procedures hereinafter set out.
(b)
An account shall be established to be known as 'The Cemetery Care Fund Account' into which the Treasurer shall pay all funds received for Care Fund purposes and all such funds shall be deposited in said account, and there held pending investment as hereinafter provided.
(c)
On all licenses for the use of grave space, and on all contracts or agreements for the sale of such licenses, the amount required to be used for Care Fund purposes shall be specified.
(d)
Investment of funds received for Care Fund purposes shall be made as required by the Regulations under the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" applicable to Municipal Cemetery Care Funds.
(e)
The income from the 'Cemetery Care Fund' including any appreciation thereof, shall be used for the sole purpose of upkeep and maintenance of the property licensed and the cemetery of which it forms a part.
(f)
The principal sum of the cemetery care fund shall not be reduced otherwise than in accordance with an order of the Minister made pursuant to the Regulations under the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act".
MEMORIALS 30.
No person shall place on any grave space in the cemetery a memorial marker or tablet until the Care Fund, setting fee, and burial expenses have been paid to the Municipality.
31.
No memorial tablet will be permitted in an area designated as a Memory Garden.
32.
A memorial may be installed on a grave in the cemetery subject to the requirements of this bylaw and subject to the following: (a)
All memorials shall be of the tablet type and may only be of granite or bronze.
(b)
All bronze memorial tablets shall be attached to concrete bases not less than four (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a four inch (4") (100 mm) concrete surround, except for infant and cremation graves which shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a three inch (3") (75 mm) concrete surround.
(c)
On single, double depth and child graves the granite memorial tablets shall be not larger than twenty inches by twelve inches (20" X 12") (500 mm X 300 mm) and be not less than three inches (3") (75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a four inch (4") (100 mm) concrete surround.
(d)
On infants' and side by side cremation graves the memorial tablet shall be not larger than sixteen inches by ten inches (16" X 10")(400 mm X 250 mm) and be not less than three inches (3") (75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4") (100 mm) in thickness and with a three inch (3") (75 mm) concrete surround.
(e)
On a side by side adult grave the granite memorial tablet shall be not larger than thirty inches by eighteen inches (30" X 18")(750 mm X 450 mm) and be not less than three inches (3") (75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4")(100 mm) in thickness and with a four inch (4") (100 mm) concrete surround.
(f)
On single cremation plots the granite memorial tablet shall be not larger than twelve inches by eight inches (12" x 8")(300 mm X 200 mm) and not less than three inches (3")(75 mm) thick and shall be set in concrete not less than four inches (4")(100 mm) in thickness and with a three inch (3") (75 mm) concrete surround.
(g)
All memorial tablets to be placed shall be received at the Municipal Works Yard Stores from the Monument Contractor and shall be installed by the cemetery workmen under the supervision of the Caretaker.
(h)
All granite memorial tablets shall be set with the top surface of the tablet even with the ground.
(i)
All concrete bases and concrete surrounds shall be supplied by the Municipality in accordance with the fees as set out in the Township’s Fees and Charges Bylaw.
(j)
The Municipality shall not be responsible for any breakage or damage to any tablet except as shall arise out of the carelessness and negligence of the Caretaker or his assistants.
GENERAL 33.
No grave, or grave space, shall be defined by a fence, railing, coping, curbing, hedge, or by any other marking save by a memorial tablet as set out in this bylaw.
34.
Cut flowers, wreaths and floral offerings may be placed on graves but may be removed by the Caretaker when their condition is considered by him to be detrimental to the beauty of the cemetery.
35.
Boxes, shells, toys, wire screens, arbours, trellises, tripods or any other objects are prohibited on any grave. Between March 1 and November 1, no artificial flowers are to be placed.
36.
No person shall plant, remove, cut down, or destroy, any trees, shrubs, plants, bulbs or rocks in the cemetery other than an employee of The Corporation authorized to do so.
37.
All persons are prohibited from damaging, or defacing any memorial, monument, fence, gate, or structure in the cemetery, or any improvements in the cemetery.
38.
Owners of automobiles or other vehicles will be responsible for any damage done by them or their drivers in violation of the provisions of this bylaw.
39.
No person shall solicit orders for or place or cause to be placed advertising material for markers, tablets, memorials, curbings, cappings, or like works within the limits of a cemetery.
40.
All persons and funeral processions in the cemetery shall obey the instructions of the Caretaker or his assistant, and any person not behaving with proper decorum within the cemetery, or disturbing the quiet and good order of the cemetery may be evicted therefrom by the Caretaker.
41.
Dogs shall not be permitted in the cemetery and no person shall allow a dog owned by him or in his care to be in the cemetery.
42.
Any person who willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure placed in the cemetery, or any fence, railing, or other work for the protection or ornament of the cemetery, or any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure aforesaid or lot within the cemetery, or willfully destroys, cuts, breaks or injures any shrub, or plant, or plays at any game or sport, or discharges firearms (save at a military funeral) or who willfully or unlawfully disturbs persons assembled for the purpose of burying a body therein, or who commits a nuisance, or at any time behaves in an indecent or unseemly manner, or deposits any rubbish or offensive matter or thing in a cemetery, or in any way violates any grave, tomb, tombstone, vault, or other structure within the same, shall be guilty of an infraction of this bylaw, and liable to the penalties hereof.
43.
No person shall be within the cemetery during the period dusk to dawn.
44.
Any person who contravenes or violates any of the provisions of this bylaw or who suffers or permits anything to be done in contravention or violation of this bylaw or who neglects to do anything required to be done pursuant to this bylaw commits an offence and shall upon conviction be liable to a fine of not less than $300.00 and not more than the maximum penalties provided by the Offence Act from time to time and, where the
offence is a continuing one, each day that the offence is continued shall constitute a separate offence. 45.
Notwithstanding anything herein contained, the administration of the cemetery shall be carried out at all times in accordance with the "Cemetery and Funeral Services Act" and Regulations made thereunder.
READ A FIRST TIME the
day of
, 2009
READ A SECOND TIME the
day of
, 2009
READ A THIRD TIME the
day of
, 2009
RECONSIDERED AND ADOPTED the
day of
, 2009
Mayor
Deputy Township Clerk
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