09.01 Ordinance Amendment - City Cemetery

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The City shall not be held responsible for the execution of any order given by telephone or for any error occurring from lack of the receipt of proper written instructions pertaining to the funeral service or interment. L The City reserves and shall have a right to correct without liability for the payment of damages any errors that may be inadvertently made by the City either in making interment, disinterment, or removal, or in the installation of inemorial or in the description, transfer or conveyance of burial rights, and to substitute and convey in lieu thereof other interment property of similar nature and location insofar as is possible, ar as may be selected by the City ar in the sole discretion of the City to refund the amount of money paid on account of its purchase. In the event such an error is in respect to the interment of the remains of the deceased person in such property, the City reserves the right to substitute such other property of similar nature in the location as may be substituted and conveyed in lieu thereof. 2. The City shall not be liable for the payment of any damages for any delay in the interment of a body of a deceased person caused by reason of a protest to the interment of such a body or the violation of the rules and regulations of the cemetery. 3. In making disinterments, the City will exercise reasonable care but will not be liable for payment in connection with any injury to casket or burial case. 4. The City shall incur no liability whatsoever except for its willful acts or malfeasance. 5. The City shall be entitled in all cases to rely upon the statement, written or oral, of any person claiming to have knowledge of the facts and claiming to be authorized to act and shall incur no liability whatsoever by reason of an act committed by it or permitted to be done in reliance on such statement. Section 5-2.6. NUMBER OF PERSONS INTERRED PER GRAVE The bodies of two or more persons shall not be interred in one grave unless approved by the City, except in the case of cremation, whereby up to six (6)persons can be buried in one grave. T�,a,.o . ,;>> �,o ,.�,�,.,.o� ,. ,.oa �,. � ,.�, �.,,,.:,,� Section 5-2.7. LOT OWNER'S RIGHTS In case of a lot owner's death, the rights of the surviving wife or husband and next of kin will be recognized in accordance with the laws of the State of Minnesota insofar as it is able to ascertain who such parties are, but the City will not be responsible for any errors which may be committed due to lack of adequate information. In the absence of an express direction by the owner of the lot or provision contained in a will, the following will be recognized as having the right to direct interments herein: