DIVISION 3. - EAST PROVIDENCE CEMETERY
Part of the Code of Ordinances of East Providence, RI.
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Sec. 13-61. - Burials prohibited in East Providence Cemetery.#
Pursuant to G.L. 1956, § 23-18-10, provision is hereby made prohibiting the burial of bodies in the following described premises: That certain tract or parcel of land situated in the city and comprising the easterly part of the John Bishop Lot, which easterly part of the John Bishop Lot was set apart in the will of Samuel O. Case under the name of East Providence Cemetery and is now laid out and delineated on plat entitled, "The East Providence Cemetery belonging to Samuel O. Case and situated northerly from Rumford Deposit on the Boston and Newport Road, East Providence, Rhode Island, surveyed and drawn by W. M. Dexter, September, 1887," which plat is recorded in the office of the city clerk in Plat Book 6, page 2 and a copy recorded on Plat Card 89. Such premises are bound and described as follows: Southerly by the New Road; easterly by the Boston and Newport Road; northerly by Moore Street; and westerly by land laid out and delineated on plat entitled, "Pine Terrace East Providence, Rhode Island, J. W. Wilbur, owner July 29, 1904, A. L. Eliot, Eng. Boston, Massachusetts," which plat is recorded in the city clerk's office in Plat Book 9, page 34. Such premises comprise Lot No. 254 on Plat No. 39 made for the use of the board of tax assessors of the city for the year 1934.
(Rev. Ords. 1987, § 13-61)
Sec. 13-62. - Fines.#
The fines for failure to maintain cemeteries in accordance with the rules and regulations relative to burials in the city shall be as follows: (1)
Grass more than six inches in height as measured from ground level .....$50.00
(2)
Funeral flowers left on a grave site more than four days .....50.00
(3)
Open graves not covered and child proofed until time of burial .....50.00
(4)
Graves not packed tight, top dressed with loam, and seeded (weather permitting) .....50.00
(Ch. 261, § I, 8-19-03)