G70-79 Ordinance No. G70-79
AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING THE SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR BURIAL SERVICES
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS:
Section 1. That Section 2.24.200 of Chapter 2.24, entitled "Lot or
grave space - Purchase price" of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976, as amended,
be and is hereby amended to read as follows:
"A. The cost of lots in the monument sections is established at
the rate of two hundred twenty-five dollars per grave space; of this
amount one hundred twenty-five dollars shall be credited to the general
fund and one hundred dollars to the perpetual care fund. However, if
the sinking fund is depleted below its required level, fifteen percent
of each amount shall be credited to the sinking fund.
B. The cost of single grave spaces (in the single grave section)
is established at one hundred forty dollars; of this amount ninety
dollars shall be credited into the general fund and fifty dollars
shall be credited to the perpetual care fund.
C. The cost of babies' grave spaces is established at fifty
dollars.
D. The cost of lots in Section 2-A is established at the rate of
elk three hundred dollars per grave space; of this amount, one hundred
seventy-five dollars shall be credited to the general fund and one
hundred twenty-five dollars to the perpetual care fund. However, if
the sinking fund is depleted below its required level, fifteen percent
of each amount shall be credited to the sinking fund.
E. The cost of lots in the memorial sections is established at
the rate of two hundred dollars per grave space; of this amount one hundred
twenty-fvedollars„shall be credited to the general fund and seventy-five
dollars to the perpetual care fund. However, if the sinking fund is
depleted below its required level, fifteen percent of each amount shall
be credited to the sinking fund.”
Section 2. That Section 2.24.210 of Chapter 2.24, entitled "Reassign-
ment of burial space" of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976, as amended, be and
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"A. No burial space in Bluff City Cemetery shall be alienated,
assigned, or transferred except in the manner provided in this chapter.
Such assignments shall be by quitclaim of the burial space to the city
and by deed of the city to the assignee. The city clerk is authorized
to consent to said assignments or quitclaims. Such assignment or quit-
claim may be made by:
1. The recorded owner or owners, and where such ownership is
joint, by the surviving owner or owners;
2. In the event of the death of the recorded owner or joint
owners, an assignment or quitclaim may be made by the majority
of the surviving heirs at law of the last surviving owner of
record.
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B. The term "burial space", as used in this section, shall
not include any space in which a burial has been made prior to the
date of assignment or quitclaim provided in this section.
C. The following fees are payable in advance to the city clerk:
1. Receiving, filing and recording assignment of quitclaim $10.00
2. For each duplicate deed issued $ 5.00"
Section 3. That Section 2.24.230 of Chapter 2.24, entitled "Fees for
burial services" of the Elgin Municipal Code, 1976, as amended, be and is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"2.24.230 Fees for burial services.
The superintendent shall demand and shall receive the following fees
in advance. Fees charged to the account of local undertakers shall be
paid within twenty days after services furnished.
Effective Effective
Item Services 1/1/80 1/1/81
A. For opening, filling and sodding:
1. Adult's grave, weekday 8:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M. $225.00 $250.00
2. Adult's grave, Saturday and after 4:00 P.M.
weekdays 275.00 300.00
3. Child's grave - Other 50.00 60.00
4. Burials for the poor 150.00 175.00
B. For disinterring and removing burial from one
part of the cemetery and reinterring:
1. Adult, disinterring 225.00 250.00
2. Adult, reinterring 200.00 225.00
3. Child, disinterring 65.00 75.00
4. Child, reinterring 50.00 60.00
C. For receiving and discharging body from
receiving vault:
1. Adult 20.00 20.00
2. Child 10.00 10.00
D. For storage in city vault, each month or part
thereof:
1. Adult 10.00 10.00
2. Child 5.00 5.00
E. For interment of remains of cremated bodies 50.00 60.00
Effective Effective
Item Services 1/1/80 1/1/81
F. For use of tent for burials:
1. No charge for adult interment under regular
charges set forth in Item A.
2. All others 20.00 20.00
G. For sodding or resodding:
1. Adult 25.00 27.00
2. Child 20.00 22.00
H. For seasonal care:
1. Single-grave lot 9.00 10.00
2. Two-grave lot 12.00 13..00
3. In excess of two grave spaces, each additional
grave space 3.00 3.00
I. Care of vases or urns, each 12.00 13.00
J. Grave Box. Charge for grave boxes is established
at 150.00 160.00
For the poor, the charge will be 100.00 110.00
K. Perpetual Care on all lots presently without
perpetual care (allocated to perpetual care and
improvement fund) :
1. First grave space 100.00 100.00
2. Second grave space 100.00 100.00
3. Each additional grave space 0.00 100.00
(Perpetual care shall be paid on entire lot • '
prior to setting headstones or monuments on
any portion thereof)
L. Foundation charges, per setting 15.00 15.00
(Description of each stone to be submitted to
director of cemeteries for his approval and
directions as to placement location)
M. Vault setting fee 65.00 70.00'
Section 4. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after January 1, 1980.
s/ Richard L. Verbic
Richard L. Verbic, Mayor
Presented: December 26, 1979
Passed: December 26, 1979
Vote: Yeas 7 Nays 0
(7 "4 Recorded:
Published:
Attest:
s/ Nancy L. Johnson
Nancy L. Johnson, Acting City Clerk