CHAPTER XXXI.
Parks and Cemeteries.
Sec. 429. Superintendent—appointment.
The City Manager shall appoint, subject to the approval of the
Council, a superintendent of parks and cemeteries, who shall have
special charge of the public parks and cemeteries and of all property
of the City in and about the same.
Sec. 430. His powers and duties.
He shall employ, subject to the approval of the City Manager,
such help as may be needed for the proper maintenance and operation
of the same. He shall have all the powers of a member
of the City Police Force within the parks and cemeteries over
which he has jurisdiction, and within one hundred yards thereof,
and shall keep order and preserve the peace therein; and any one
obstructing or hindering him in the discharge of his duty shall
be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $25.00 for each offense.
Sec. 431. Laying off lots—mapping and selling of same.
The superintendent shall lay off the cemeteries, not already
mapped, into sections, half sections, and quarter sections and
eighth sections, and shall have three maps made of the same by
the City Engineer. One of said maps shall be kept by him, one
by the City Engineer, and the other recorded in the Clerk's Office
of the Corporation Court, and he shall sell the sections, half
sections, quarter sections and eighth sections, as shown on said
maps at such prices as may be fixed from time to time by the
Council.
Sec. 432. Deed to sections.
The Mayor shall have authority and it shall be his duty to execute
in the name and on behalf of the City proper deeds conveying
with general warranty of title to any purchaser thereof any
section in any cemetery of the City to which the City has a clear
title, upon the certificate of the City Collector that the purchase
money for said section has been fully paid. To such deed the
seal of the City shall be affixed and attested by the Clerk of the
Council. However, in any such deed it shall be expressly set out
that the section thereby conveyed shall be used for the interment
of white persons only, except as to those parts set aside for colored,
and that its management and control shall be subject to any
laws, ordinances or resolutions passed or thereafter passed, by
the City Council for the management, government or improvement
of the cemetery in which the section is located, or for the
management, government or improvement of the sections in said
cemeteries.
Sec. 433. To whom lots shall be sold.
All the sections in Maplewood and Oakwood cemeteries shall
be used exclusively for the burial or interment of white persons;
except that part in Oakwood which has been set apart by the
Council for colored persons.
Sec. 434. Burial of paupers.
The Council shall designate such portion of Oakwood Cemetery
as may be necessary for the interment or burial of paupers.
Sec. 435. Charges for keeping sections in order.
Every owner of a section or part of a section in any cemetery
of the City shall pay annually to the City Collector on the first
day of July the following fee, viz.: For a whole section $8.00;
half section, $5.00; quarter section, $2.50; one-eighth section,
$1.50, for keeping such sections in good condition.
Sec. 436. Perpetual care of sections.
There shall be established a fund to be known as "a fund for
the perpetual care of sections or parts thereof in the cemeteries,
now or hereafter owned or controlled by the City of Charlottesville."
(a) Any owner or other party in interest may deposit with the
City Collector such sum to provide for the perpetual care of his
section or part thereof, as will at 5% per annum produce that
amount now required to be paid by owners of sections for the
annual care of said sections or parts thereof. That is to say:
Owners of whole sections will deposit $160.00.
Owners of half sections will deposit $100.00.
Owners of quarter sections will deposit $50.00.
Owners of eighth sections will deposit $30.00.
Owners of grave spaces, per space, $20.00.
(b) Such sums so deposited shall be entered upon the records
of the City to the credit of the above described fund in the name
of the party paying the same, and shall so stand to the credit of
said account as long as this arrangement may be in effect.
(c) That the City shall keep such sections or parts thereof as
shall have been deposited for, in good condition, that is to say,
they shall be kept in good sod, the grass shall be kept in shape,
except that the City shall not be held liable for the deterioration
of the stones or markers caused by erosion.
(d) Should the City, at any time, discontinue the control and
supervision of the several cemeteries, then such funds shall be
transmitted to its successors, or returned to the estates paying
such sums into said fund.
(e) There shall be a Perpetual Care Cemetery Commission
who shall be custodian of said fund. Said Commission shall be
composed of the Mayor, the City Treasurer, the City Auditor and
the Chairman of the Finance Committee. It shall be the duty of
the said Commission to properly invest said fund and to turn into
the City Treasury, annually on the last day of the fiscal year,
the income accruing from said fund.
Sec. 437. Fees for digging graves.
For digging a grave for a person fourteen years of age and
over, the fee shall be $10.00; and for graves for persons under
fourteen years of age the fee shall be $5.00, which fees shall be
paid in advance unless guaranteed by some responsible person,
and every grave shall not be less than five feet in depth. No interment
shall be made which shall disturb the remains of the
dead, or which shall displace or injure any monument or stone
placed over a grave.
Sec. 438. Trespass, etc.
For breaking, injuring or destroying any monument, gravestone
or mark, shrub, plant or tree in the cemeteries, or parks, or
any property appertaining thereto, or for trespassing in any manner
on the grounds, the person or persons so offending shall be
fined not less than $2.00 nor more than $20.00.
Sec. 439. Care of graves of war veterans.
The Superintendent of Parks and Cemeteries is directed to
take care of the graves of soldiers who served in the war between
the States, the Spanish-American War and the World War wherever
there is a marker or inscription to identify them, at the expense
of the City where no provision has been made for their upkeep.
Sec. 440. Record of burials.
The Superintendent of Parks and Cemeteries shall keep a record
of each cemetery on plats prepared by the City Engineer
showing the name, lot and section number, grave and date of interment
of every person buried in said cemeteries.
