Municipal Cemetery

(a) Monuments and markers shall only be installed in the Lusk Municipal Cemetery by reputable monument companies, and then only after a permit has been secured from the Town Offie and a locate has been confirmed by the Cemetery Overseer or the designated Town personnel.

(b) Foundations shall be installed only by qualified contractors, and only from April 15 to December 1 of each year (i.e. when there is no frost in the ground), and only after a permit has been secured from the Town Office and a locate has been confirmed by the Cemetery Overseer or designated Town personnel.

(c) No permits for installation of monuments, markers or foundations shall be issued until the space upon which the same is to be installed has been fully paid and a document of conveyance issued to the owner.

(d) Only one central or family memorial or monument shall be allowed on a lot (i.e a lost consisting of four individual grave spaces), and the same shall be in placed at the head of the lot. Only one tombstone or monument shall be placed at the head of each grave space, with the foundations of said tombstone or monument not exceeding the width of 48 inches. Only one foot stone per single grave space shall be allowed. Military markers are allowed in addition to the individual monuments.

(e) Marble markers or memorials shall not be allowed in the Lusk Municipal Cemetery. (Adoption Ordinance, 2004) 

(a) No person shall install, place or erect a monument, marker or foundation without a permit as provided  herein. 

(b) No person shall plant, construct, erect, install, or create any coping, hedging,     grave mounds, borders, enclosures or walkways of any kind on any lots or spaces or anywhere on the Lusk Municipal Cemetery  premises. 

(c) No person shall use, place, erect or leave tiles, bricks, gravel, crushed rock, oyster shells, cinders, or any other materials except as may be specifically permitted or allowed by   this Title on any spaces, lots, or anywhere on the premises of the Lusk Municipal Cemetery.   All such materials may be removed by Town personnel without liability to the   owner. 

(d) No person shall place glass containers, barbed wire, aluminum foil or large rocks on the cemetery premises at any time, and no cut flowers, potted plants, wreaths, blankets or other such material shall be left on graves for longer than 15 days; provided, however, artificial plants or flowers may remain indefinitely if attached to a monument or memorial. All materials prohibited after 15 days shall be removed by Town personnel with liability to the owner. Artificial flowers and plants may be removed by the Cemetery Overseer at his or her discretion. 

(e) No person shall drive any vehicle upon any place within the cemetery except on the graveled streets. 

(f) No person shall injure, deface, break, disturb or destroy any monument, marker, memorial, tomb or grave, nor shall any person break, injury or destroy any gate, fence,  grassed plot, shrub, tree or ornament of any kind within the Lusk Municipal Cemetery. 

(g) No person shall disturb the sod on any lot or grave, nor plant any tree, shrub or bush on cemetery premises. 

(h) Any person convicted of committing an act or acts prohibited by this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in § 2-35-100 of the Lusk Municipal   Code.   (Adoption Ordinance, 2004)