Appendix E. RIVERVIEW CEMETERY RULES AND REGULATIONS
GENERAL REGULATIONS
The Riverview Cemetery Supervisor expressly reserves the right, at any time or times, with or without notice to owners, to adopt new rules and regulations, or to amend, alter and/or repeal any rule, regulation and/or article, section, paragraph and/or sentence in these Rules and Regulations, when in his judgment such revision or amendment or addition is required.
The gates of the cemetery will be open daily from 7:00 a.m. until sunset. The term "gates" as used herein shall mean any or all the established entrances to the cemetery not equipped with movable barriers.
Any unauthorized person found within the cemetery outside the prescribed opening hours will be considered a trespasser and as such will be liable to prosecution.
No trees, shrubs, evergreens, bulbs of any variety shall be planted by the lot owner or owners.
Artificial arrangements and or flowers are allowed November 1 st through March 1 st only.
No unauthorized plantings or breakable objects allowed. Riverview Cemetery reserves the right to remove any unsightly or cluttered designs at all times.
Flowers will be permitted on graves for only ten (10) days at Easter, Mothers' Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day and other holidays during mowing season.
Funeral flowers will be removed from graves when they become unsightly.
Flags placed on grave sites in observance of Memorial Day will be removed ten (10) days after the observance by the cemetery staff.
One single shepherd hook will be permitted per marked occupied grave. It must be flush to the marker. The basked must hang directly over the marker.
No urns, glass or wood boxes or houses, trellises, fences, benches, trinkets, toys, baskets or ornaments will be allowed on any grave lot. Crushed stone or wood chips are not permitted around memorials, trees or shrubs. If so placed, the Cemetery shall have the full right to remove such objects without notice.
No enclosure of any kind, such as a fence, coping, hedge, or ditch, shall be permitted around any grave or lot.
Alcoholic beverages in the cemetery are strictly forbidden.
No advertisement or sign of any kind shall be placed or kept on any lot or grave.
The cemetery department is not responsible for theft or damage to anything placed on graves or lots.
MARKERS AND FAMILY MONUMENTS
Both shall be either constructed of granite, marble or bronze.
All makers shall not exceed 1ft. x 2ft. and top of marker set flush with grade of lot.
All monuments shall not exceed 1ft.-6inches x 6ft. and top of family monument set flush with grade of lot.
Neither the City of Clarksville nor Riverview Cemetery will assume any liability.
The City of Clarksville and Riverview Cemetery disclaims any and all responsibility for loss or damage to monuments, markers, mausoleums and vases from the acts of thieves, vandals, rioters, and malicious mischief makers, and from the elements including but not limited to winds, tornadoes, cyclones, hail, snow, frost and ice, whether such damage directly or indirectly results there from.
Due to liability and safety risk cemetery workers are not allowed to reposition and or repair or set monuments or markers. A list of monument proprietors that can perform this work can be provided at the cemetery office.
INTERMENTS-DISINTERMENTS
All interments in Riverview Cemetery require an outer vault of concrete or better approved by the cemetery supervisor.
The Cemetery Department assumes no responsibility for erroneous location of gravesites when open as requested. The Cemetery Department reserves the right to correct any errors that may be made by it, either interments, disinterments, or removal.
MAUSOLEUMS
The cemetery will set aside a certain section(s) deemed appropriate for the erection of mausoleums.
All plans and specifications and location on lot for each building must be submitted to and approved by the cemetery supervisor. After review of the plans and specifications, the cemetery supervisor reserves the right to make any modifications and/or requirements to reflect local construction codes, otherwise all industry standards will apply.
It will be required of the patron to purchase additional lots adjoining or contiguous to the mausoleum.
At the time of entombment the opening and closing charges as set forth by the city code will apply.
Construction work and setting of the mausoleum shall be by a certified, licensed, and bonded company knowledgeable in the construction and setting of mausoleums.
The cemetery will not engage in any work nor assume any expense relating to the construction of nor the placing of the mausoleum; the expense will be born solely by the patron.
Neither the City of Clarksville, nor Riverview Cemetery will assume any liability.
The City of Clarksville, Riverview Cemetery disclaims any and all responsibility for loss or damage to monuments, markers, mausoleums and vases from the acts of thieves, vandals, rioters, and malicious mischief makers, and from the elements including but not limited to winds, tornadoes, cyclones, hail, snow, frost and ice, whether such damage directly or indirectly results there from.
March 2006
(Ord. of 3-1-06)