Exceptions

Exceptions to the Regulations
  • No grave marker shall be installed in this plot, except upright marble type supplied by the United States government.
  • All burials shall be made in the spaces in consecutive order as designated by the City.
  • Cremated veterans shall be inurned in the columbarium erected in the veteran plot for that purpose. A veteran's remains may not be buried in a traditional full size veteran grave unless that grave could not be used for a traditional burial with casket.
  • The circular park adjoining the veterans' memorial plot may be used by such parties or organizations as are interested in the care and development of the veterans’ memorial plot for the installations of a suitable flag staff, instruments of warfare, implements, memorial monuments, or other decorations upon the approval of the City.
  • The remains of up to two of the immediate family members of a veteran that is already buried in the veterans’ memorial plot may be buried on that veteran’s grave.
  • If there is room for additional memorialization on the upright marble VA stone, the spouse of that veteran buried may be memorialized on said stone at the family’s expense.