By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Mona City will soon have a cemetery policy to set
forward the rules and regulations which will need to be
followed when the cemetery is used for a burial.
In addition, signs will be placed in the community
cemetery this Spring to alert people that any shrubs or
trees that are too big and, therefore, block the sprinklers
from watering the lawn will be removed.
Lorna Squires, cemetery and parks superintendent, said
the need for a policy had been brought to the forefront when
a family wanted to bury a loved person's cremated remains
above the body of an interred family member.
"It is OK in Nephi," said Squires. "The urn can be
placed on top of a vault in the same space."
Squires said, lacking an ordinance for the Mona City
Cemetery, she had referred to the policy adopted and used by
Nephi City.
In Nephi, those seeking to bury the cremated person
above the remains of another person, needed to still pay the
opening and closing costs. However, in Mona, if the
individual's family members were willing to do the opening
and closing they had not be charged.
"We do need a policy of our own," said Squires. "We
need something in writing so that we can refer a family to
our policy."
In some communities, a copy of the policy is handed to
the family when they purchase a plot or when they are
seeking to have a grave opened at the cemetery.
Squires was authorized to begin the process of putting
together a cemetery policy. When she is through, she was
asked to bring it to the council for input and approval.
"I think the signs are a good idea," said Darlene
Fowkes, council member. "If those who own the plot want to
remove the shrubs or trees, they may do so. Most of them are
too big for that."
However, if the shrubs and other greenery continued to
block the sprinklers, they would be removed.
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