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Palm Cemetery Brochure Cemetery Rules & Regulations Brochure_Cemetery Rules & Regulations Brochure 1/23/15 12:18 PM Page 1 ✤ Soil covered over all vaults, or liners, will be a Rules & Standards minimum of eighteen inches in depths and will Palm & Pineywood Purchasing Procedure be thoroughly tamped to the satisfaction of the cemetery personnel. General ✤ A prospective purchaser may reserve a space for Palm and Pineywood cemeteries will be operated 15 days, if the purchase of a reserved space is ✤ Funeral directors and vault companies will leave for the benefit of the residents of Winter Park. The not completed within 15 days, the reservation will the cemetery substantially as found and will be City Manager will be responsible for the proper be null and void without notice. subject, at all times, to the direction of the operation of the cemeteries in accordance with ✤ Spaces may be purchased at Palm or Pineywood cemetery personnel as related to the physical these regulations. The operation of the cemeteries cemeteries upon payment of full price as listed property and structures of the cemetery. While will be the responsibility of the Cemeteries Manager in the current City of Winter Park Fee Schedule. inside the cemetery, funeral processions will be under the Parks & Recreation Department. under the control of the cemetery personnel. ✤ After payment of the current purchase price as ✤ The city, in accordance with the provisions of the set by the City Commission, each purchaser will ✤ There will be a charge for all interments, payable cemetery space deed covenants, will perpetually receive a right of interment document, which will to the City of Winter Park by the Funeral Director maintain the cemeteries, including individually- be recorded in City Hall of Winter Park. or applicable person and in accordance with the owned spaces and lots. current City of Winter Park Fee Schedule. ✤ Duplicate notarized documents are available for ✤ Complete cemetery records will be maintained in a charge of $10 each. Should there be sufficient proof that a foreign court had the Palm Cemetery office. jurisdiction over the estate of the decedent and the applicant Transfer of Spaces provides a certified copy of the foreign judgment, Florida Law Rules & ✤ Any complaint or grievance, which cannot be provides detailing procedures by which a foreign judgment may resolved by the Parks & Recreation Director, ✤ Grantees will only be entitled to assign and be domesticated in Florida and the city of Winter Park reserves Standards will be presented to the City Manager. transfer cemetery lots to his/her immediate the right to request an Orange County judge to order that the family; father, mother, spouse, daughter, son, foreign judgment will have full force and effect. This process shall ✤ It is hereby declared that except as expressly step-children, brother, sister, grandchildren, be submitted to the City of Winter Park Attorney for review prior provided in these regulations, or in instruments grandparents, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother- to any action. executed pursuant hereto, the City assumes no in-law, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law or liability to individuals, classes of persons or other members of the household. organizations for the administration, operation or use of the cemeteries. ✤ Application for transfer may be submitted by an heir or legal representative of the grantee. Purchase, ownership & interment ✤ Upon written request the city will re-purchase the Eligibility cemetery lot or lots for the original purchase price Palm Cemetery listed on the right of interment document. 1005 N. New York Ave. Only the following persons will be eligible to purchase cemetery spaces: Pineywood Cemetery ✤ Verified residents who have resided within the Interments Eligibility 1900 S. Lakemont Ave. Only the following persons will be eligible to be City of Winter Park for five years or more. interred in Palm or Pineywood cemeteries: ✤ A non-resident with spouse, children, grand- ✤ Cemetery Manager Verified residents who have resided within the Janna Baumann children, mother, father, brother, sister, grandfather or grandmother of a person interred City of Winter Park for five or more years. phone 407.599-3252 in Palm or Pineywood cemetery. ✤ The father, mother, spouse, daughter, son, step- fax 407.623.3456 children, brother, sister, grandchildren, grand- [email protected] ✤ Columbarium’s niches may be purchased by any non-residents. parents, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother- cityofwinterpark.org/cemeteries in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, or other members ✤ Only veterans and their spouses may be of a person interred in either Cemetery. Hours of operation interred in “Memorial Park” (Veterans’ Section). ✤ Non-resident who purchased cemetery lot(s) Grounds The eligibility requirements above must also while they were residents after having resided Dawn to Dusk be met. within the city five years or more. ✤ Interments in “Babyland” will be limited to infants Office below the age of one year. Parents of the infant Monday thru Friday Approved by City Commission 04.23.12 Palm & Pineywood Cemeteries must meet eligibility requirements above. Revised by Parks & Recreation Advisory Board 06.26.13 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cemetery Rules & Regulations Brochure_Cemetery Rules & Regulations Brochure 1/23/15 12:19 PM Page 2 Interments ✤ No planting of any kind will be permitted in ✤ Cemetery personnel will supervise and inspect the Disinterment “Babyland,” “Memorial Park” (Veterans’ Section) or installation of all monuments and markers. Prior General Procedures “Cremation Section,” with the exception of trees approval is required for all installations. General Funeral homes will contact the Parks & Recreation planted by the City of Winter Park. ✤ In order to allow free passage of mowers or other The City of Winter Park requires a court order for Department at least 24 hours prior to the hour of ✤ Cemetery personnel will have the authority to equipment, curbs, coping, walls or other disinterment along with requirements stated in Rule the funeral service to give arrangement details. remove any plant material that has grown to a enclosures around spaces will not be permitted. 69K-6.007 of the Florida Administrative Code. Cemetery personnel marks off the space to be used. dimension which interferes with irrigation or ✤ In sections designed as “Babyland,” “Memorial Requirements If a definite place is not requested, the normal maintenance or surrounding areas. Park” (Veterans’ Section) or “Cremation Section,” ✤ Funeral Director (FD) is required to show his procedure will be followed, which is to inter the man ✤ Flowers placed at the time of an interment will be all grave markers will be level with the ground and current license in writing identify all permits in the south space and the woman in the adjacent left a minimum of three days and discarded when attached to a base. he/she has (and attach and incorporate these space to the north. they decline. It is suggested that potted plants from ✤ All footstones will be of stone or nonferrous metal, permits to his or her written statement), and the Standards funerals should not be left in the cemetery since level with the ground, and permanently attached to FD must attest that these are all required ✤ All interments will be made in concrete or metal they will be discarded. a base. permits. vaults, or concrete liners. No wooden boxes will ✤ The Cemetery reserves the right to remove all ✤ Cleaning, straightening and repairs due to normal ✤ Written authorization from the individual OR be permitted. flowers, wreaths, or other decorations from wear and tear of monuments are the responsibility individuals who own the burial rights for the City ✤ One vault or liner, interment per space will be spaces/niches as soon as they become unsightly and expense of the owner. The city is not cemetery space from which the remains are to permitted. Cremations will be limited to five per or are in decline. responsible for damage caused by acts of nature be removed. space, or four cremations in addition to an earlier ✤ The Cemetery shall have the right to remove all or routine grounds maintenance. ✤ Written authorization from the person who would vault or liner. objects that violate Cemetery regulations and/or be legally authorized to bury the remains in the ✤ Digging of graves and setting up of equipment warrant removal due to decline in appearance first instance. If this is the widow/widower a (canopy, chairs, etc.) will be performed by a or condition. Special rules » Palm Cemetery certified copy of an order admitting to probate a qualified vault company under contract with the ✤ No tree shrub or flowers shall be planted or pruned Reserved blocks will that confers such authority and the FD must certify in writing that in his/her professional City of Winter Park. The charge for this service will in or removed from the cemetery without the The following blocks are reserved as indicated: be charged according to current fee schedule. express consent of the Cemetery Manager. opinion the person is so authorized. Babyland Blocks 109 & 110 A check for the required amount will be made The manager may plant, prune, remove, or ✤ A court order by a judge in Orange County, payable to the City of Winter Park, and must be transplant any tree, shrub, or plant in a cemetery Memorial Park Cornered by blocks Florida, with appropriate jurisdiction over the submitted prior to interment. The opening or at any burial spaces or within the property to 229, 259, 261 & 301 matter calling for the disinterment or allowing it. and closing charge includes a chapel tent, prevent the impairment of or interference with the (Veterans’ Section) Alternatively, if the applicant for disinterment can 10 chairs, cribbing lowering device, and artificial use of other burial spaces or lots or to promote, establish that the court issuing the order has grass borders.
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