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N.Y. Village Law § 15-1504: Rules and regulations

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  1. Village Law
  2. Article 15. Cemeteries

§ 15-1504 Rules and regulations. The board of cemetery commissioners

may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for:

1. The care, management and protection of the cemetery grounds.

2. The use, care and protection of lots in such cemeteries.

3. The conduct of persons within the cemetery grounds, and the

exclusion of improper persons therefrom.

4. Regulating the dividing marks between the various lots and parts of

lots in cemeteries and their size, shape and location.

5. Preventing or regulating monuments, effigies and structures within

the same.

6. Regulating or preventing the introduction and growth of plants,

trees and shrubs within such grounds.

7. The prevention of the burial in any lot or part of any lot of any

person not entitled to be buried therein.

Such rules and regulations, when adopted, shall be printed and

conspicuously posted in at least five places upon the cemetery grounds.

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