top of page

Rules & Regulations

for Mount Hope & St. Boniface Cemeteries

Plantings & Decorations

  • Year round ground maintenance and clean up around headstones, mausoleums and memorial garden.

  • Flowers and tasteful decorations may be placed on lots

  • NO planting of any kind, NO shepherd hooks or solar lights of any kind or size

  • All seasonal decorations, Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer, along with Memorial and Veterans Day will be removed 30 days after that specific holiday - NO Exceptions.

  • Cemetery will commence Spring clean-up on April 1st of each year. All decorations will be removed at that time except for new burials, which will be allowed for no more than 30 days.

  • Mount Hope and St. Boniface Cemetery reserve the right to remove any plantings or decorations placed outside the stated rules and regulations or it deems inappropriate or improperly placed and to change these rules and regulations without prior notice.

​

Restrictions On Lots

  • No glass, ceramic or earthen ware vases or container of any kind or size allowed. 

  • No crushed stone, brick chips or marble chips of any kind. No mulch, etc. 

  • No fences or retaining walls of any kind or size. 

  • Should you have questions, please ask before you place anything on graves.

 

Vehicles and Other Restrictions

  • Speed Limit – 5MPH 

  • Vehicles must stay on roadways, no driving or parking on lawn areas 

  • No snowmobiles or other off road vehicles allowed, No skateboarding 

  • No dog walking allowed

Regulations & Stipulations

for Mount Hope & St. Boniface Cemeteries

Of the Mount Hope and St. Boniface Cemetery, forming part of the foregoing deed and conditions on which it is made.

 

1. Proprietors shall not allow interments to be made in their lots for remuneration; neither shall any lot be for any other purpose than a place of burial for the dead.

​

2. Proprietors will be entitled to bury all members of their family in the lots owned by them. When such person shall not be entitled to the rights of a Christian burial, according to the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church, a simple interment will be allowed, provided that no religious ceremony takes place on the occasion within the precincts of the cemetery.

​

3. No disinterment of remains shall be allowed except with permission obtained at the office of the Association, under the rules for that purpose.

​

4. No fence, hedge, coping or other enclosure may be placed around any lot.  No entrance post may be placed upon any lot, and no steps, except where required by grade of said lot.  No paths may be made upon a lot, nor may any structure be erected thereon other than a vault, monument or headstone.

​

5. If any monument, effigy or enclosure, or any structure whatever, or any inscription, be placed in our upon any lot, which shall be determined by the majority part of the Board to be improper or injurious to the appearance of the surrounding lots or grounds, and Board shall have the right, and it shall be their duty to enter upon such lot and remove said offensive or improper object or objects. 

​

6. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees from time to time to lay out or alter such walks or avenues, and to make such rules and regulations for the government of the grounds as they may deem requisite and proper; to secure and promote the general objects of the Association. 

​

7. The proper care and relation of the grounds of the Cemetery, the location and grade of lots, walks, avenues and drives, and the general control of all improvements made therein, are in the hands of the Board, as directed by their Agents, the Superintendent and his subordinates.   

​

8. All persons employed in the construction of vaults, erection of monuments, etc., are subject to the control and direction of the Superintendent.  Any person failing to comply with this rule will not be permitted to work on the grounds, and will be refused admission to the Cemetery. 

​

9. After any interment shall have been made in any lot, such lot shall not be conveyed or sold by the owner, but becomes his inalienable property, not subject to execution or any process of law, and liable only to be divested by reason of the forfeiture created by the breach of any of the conditions imposed by the Rules. 

​

10. Monuments placed at gravesites must not exceed two (2) foot wide including foundation for baby graves, four (4) foot wide including foundation for a single grave or eight (8) foot six (6) inches for double graves including foundation, and in the event of a triple grave an additional four (4) three (3) inches can be added. No above ground memorial can be placed outside of the monument rows. 

​

11. No flowers on the ground during mowing season.  

​

bottom of page