WOODLAWN CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, Inc.

Rules and Regulations

1. All lot owners shall be subject to the “Rules and Regulations” of the Cemetery Association and to all rules which may hereafter be made and approved by the Association with prior consent of the New York State Cemetery Board.

2. All lots in the Woodlawn Cemetery are sold in accordance with the provision of the laws of the State of New York and shall not be used for any purpose other than as a burial place for deceased human beings.

3. No interment shall be allowed without permission being first obtained from the Woodlawn Cemetery Association.  At the time of applying for permission, the following information must be furnished:

Ø      Name of deceased

Ø      Age of deceased – including date of birth, if known

Ø      Place of birth of deceased, if known

Ø      Place and date of death

Ø      Time and date of interment

Ø      If not an adult, the names of parents or legal guardians of deceased

4. Lot owners are prohibited from allowing interments to be made on their lots for compensation.

5. Interments in a lot are restricted to those entitled to burial therein according to the terms of Section 1512 of the Not For Profit Corporation Law.  Request for permission for burial of those not entitled to burial, according to said Section, must be filed with the Woodlawn Cemetery Association by the lot owners(s) and approved by the Board of Directors.

6. Except as provided for in Section 1513 of the Not For Profit Corporation Law, no lot owner may transfer his or her lot.

7. The full purchase price must be paid before a deed will be given or burial allowed on a lot.  The price for the lot includes provisions for perpetual care.  Interment, transfer of title or erection of monuments or markers will be refused for the following reasons: (a) non-payment of interment charges, and (b) non –payment of purchase price of lot.

8. All work done in the cemetery shall be done by cemetery employees or under the control or with permission of the Sexton or Board of Directors.

9. All foundations will be constructed by or under the direction of the Woodlawn Cemetery Association.

10. All monuments or markers must be constructed of granite, marble or bronze.

11. In the 1974 extension of the cemetery, family markers shall be restricted to those which will fit a base no larger than 15” x 78” and must be placed on the West end of the lot.  Headstones to mark individual graves must be flush with the ground.

12. The Woodlawn Cemetery Association reserves the right to remove, after due notice to the lot owner, any monument, embellishment, effigy or inscription which, in the opinion of the majority of the directors, is unsightly, dangerous or offensive.

13. Potted flowers not in permanent urns or cut flowers in vases can only be placed on the grave during the period of two weeks before and after Memorial Day.  The Woodlawn Cemetery Association reserves the right to remove all flowers, wreaths, or other decorations from the graves as soon as they become unsightly.

14. Except for the time period indicated in regulation 13 above, all flowers and plants shall be in permanent urns placed on the North or South sides of the monument or marker.  Wreaths may be placed on the grave from November through March of each year.

15. The planting of trees, shrubs, plants or flowers by anyone other than the Woodland Cemetery Association or parties authorized by the Cemetery Association is prohibited.

16. All funerals, processions and vehicles will be under the control of the Sexton or his assistant while in the cemetery.

17. Heavy trucking or other vehicular traffic shall be refused entrance to the cemetery when, in the opinion of the Sexton, injury to buildings, monuments, roads, driveways and or grounds my result.

18. Any damage that may be done to buildings,  monuments, trees, roads, driveways or grounds by conveyances of any kind will be collected from the owners of such conveyances.

19. Disinterment will be allowed according to the provisions of Section 1510(e) of the Not For Profit Corporation Law.

20. Cremated remains will not be permitted to be scattered in any part of the cemetery.

21. The interment of cremated remains will be permitted only in appropriate rigid receptacles such as wood, metal, plastic or concrete.

22. Only one human remains for four (4) cremated remains will be permitted in each grave.

23. Concrete or metal vaults or concrete grave liners will be required for interments in all graves after the adoption of these rules and regulation, in accordance with the provisions of Cemetery Board Directive 202.6.

24. All graves shall be at least five feet deep.

25. No vault or mausoleum shall be built on cemetery lands without the permission of the Board of Directors and then, only in such location as they may approve.  A sufficient endowment will be established to provide income for maintaining the mausoleum and its adjacent grounds.

26. All persons shall be allowed access to the cemetery grounds during the time period specified on the signs posted at the entrances to the cemetery.  Each person shall observe the cemetery rules and the respect due the cemetery.

27. These rules and regulations may be amended by the Directors of said Woodlawn Cemetery Association, but no such amendments shall be effective until approved by the New York State Cemetery Board.

Approved by State Cemetery Board March 20, 1992.