Enforcement of Rules:

The Management is hereby empowered to enforce all Rules and Regulations and to exclude from the Cemetery any person violating the same. The Management shall have charge of the grounds and buildings including the conduct of funerals, traffic, employees, lot owners and visitors and at all times shall have supervision and control of all persons in the Cemetery.

These additional Rules and Regulations pertain to the entombment or inurnment of human remains in a mausoleum in St.Joseph’s Cemetery.

  1. Ownership of a St Joseph’s Cemetery Mausoleum crypt or niche comprises the right to perpetual use of the burial right in each space conveyed and the right of inscription acceptable to St Joseph’s Cemetery. Title to St Joseph’s Cemetery mausoleum buildings and all their parts and appurtenances remains in perpetuity with the Cemetery.
  2. Upon full payment, the Cemetery shall deliver to the buyer a certificate evidencing said entombment rights to the buyer and his heirs in perpetuity. The purchase price includes perpetual care in accordance with New York State law.
  3. Entombment Rights purchased from the Cemetery are for entombment or internment purposes only and not for speculation or investment.
  4. Crypts may be used for the entombment of human remains only. Only one entombment or internment may be for each single crypt and only two may be made in a double or companion crypt
  5. Memorial inscription of crypt fronts must conform uniformly with the rules set out by the Cemetery. Each inscription must be handled by the Cemetery and is limited to the legal name, year of birth and year of death for each person whose crypt space is reached through the aperture covered by the crypt front
  6. Floral remembrances must comprise of silk or artificial only. They will be placed in Cemetery approved containers in the area specified for the crypt
  7. No object of any kind may be placed on the crypt front at any time. Any such objects shall be removed and disposed of.
  8. The Cemetery shall not be liable for damages as a result of an act of God or malicious mischief or for any other occurrences where the Cemetery has exercised reasonable care.
  9. All services about the crypt or mausoleum requiring labor shall be performed by the Cemetery or its authorized agents.
  10. Removals from in-ground burials can be made to mausoleum crypt but specific arrangements must be made at the Cemetery Office.