LIVERMORE — Selectpersons will consider Tuesday the adoption of a proposed Cemetery Policy that establishes written rules and regulations.

The town’s Cemetery Committee is recommending the policy be adopted, town administrative assistant Kurt Schaub said.

The select board will review the policy at 6 p.m. July 5 at the town office.

The policy does not have the force of an ordinance but does detail duties, responsibilities and expectations for the care of the town’s cemeteries, he said.

The idea for the policy originated last fall and was developed along with the written job description for cemetery sexton.

Most of the rules are currently in place and the policy puts them in writing, Schaub said.

All lot owners and persons visiting the cemetery will be expected to abide by the rules and regulations, which are expected to assist the town in maintaining the cemeteries.

The rules prohibit unleashed dogs from running around in the cemetery and the planting of individual beds of shrubbery or flowers or trees.

All plantings will be required to be contained within pots made of clay, ceramic or other durable material.

The cemetery sexton will also have the authority to “remove all floral designs, flowers, weeds, trees, shrubs, plants or herbage of any kind from the cemetery as soon as, in their judgment, they become unsightly, dangerous, detrimental, or diseased, or when they do not conform to the standard maintained in the cemetery,” the policy states.

It also outlines vehicle travel in cemeteries, prohibits acts of vandalism, transfer of lots, number of interments in a single grave, and number of monuments, and markers per lot permitted.

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