HomeMy WebLinkAbout020 - 02/17/2004 - ADOPTING UPDATED RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERNING GRANDVIEW AND ROSELAWN CEMETERIES AND AMENDING SECT ORDINANCE NO. 020, 2004
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
ADOPTING UPDATED RULES AND REGULATIONS
GOVERNING GRANDVIEW AND ROSELAWN CEMETERIES AND AMENDING
SECTION 23-156 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
PERTAINING TO CEMETERY RULES AND REGULATIONS
WHEREAS,the City operates two cemeteries,Grandview Cemetery and Roselawn Cemetery
(the "Cemeteries") as part of its Cultural, Library and Recreational Services ("CLRS"); and
WHEREAS, rules and regulations for the operation of the Cemeteries were adopted by the
Council in 1983, and were most recently revised in 1996, and amended in 2000; and
WHEREAS,the request that burials be allowed on Saturdays,as well as the addition of a new
Memory Garden and changes in State law have required additions and changes to the existing rules;
and
WHEREAS, CLRS staff have reviewed and updated the previously adopted rules and
regulations in order to clarify and correct them, and to add new rules where necessary; and
WHEREAS, Section 23-156 of the City Code calls for the Council to adopt by resolution
rules and regulations to govern the operation and maintenance of the Cemeteries, and states that the
knowing violation of any such rules and regulations shall be unlawful; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Article II, Section 6 of the City Charter, all legislative enactments
establishing any rule or regulation for the violation of which a penalty is imposed or limiting the use
of private property shall be by ordinance; and
WHEREAS,staff recommends that Section 23-156 of the City Code be amended to state that
cemetery rules and regulations be adopted by ordinance rather than resolution in order to make it
consistent with the City Charter.
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS as follows:
Section 1. That the Rules and Regulations Governing Grandview and Roselawn
Cemeteries are hereby repealed and readopted in the form that is on file in the City Clerk's Office
and dated)February 3, 2004.
Section 2. That Section 23-156(a) of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 23-156. Rules and regulations.
(a) All cemeteries owned by the city shall be operated and maintained in
accordance with rules and regulations adopted by the City Council by ordinance.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 3rd day of
February,A.D. 2004, and to be presented for final passage on the 17th da of February,A.D. 2004.
Mayor
A ST:
City Clerk
Passed and adopted on final reading this 17th day of February, A. . 2004.
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk