Rules and Regulations
of
Calvary Cemetery
Springfield, Illinois
As adopted and amended from time to time prior to October 1, 2024
For the mutual protection and benefit a grave/lot owner and Calvary Cemetery certain rules and regulations have been adopted by Calvary Cemetery Board as the Rules and Regulations of Calvary Cemetery.
All grave/lot owners and persons within the Cemetery, and all graves and niches, shall be subject to set rules and regulations and such amendments or alterations thereof or additions thereto as shall be adopted by Calvary Cemetery Board from time to time; and the reference to these rules and regulations in the document conveying the right of interment shall have the same force and effect as if set forth in full therein.
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Definitions
The term “Care” shall mean that general Care of the cemetery grounds and buildings, grave sites, mausoleums, and columbarium is here in defined.
The term “Cemetery” as used herein shall mean all the property for earth burials, and Mausoleum for crypt entombments, and Columbarium for inurnments.
The term “Crypt” shall mean an above ground mausoleum, intended to be used, to entomb human remains.
The term “Entombment” shall herein mean burial above ground in a Mausoleum crypt.
The term “Grave” shall mean a space of ground in the cemetery used, or intended to be used, for the burial of human remains.
The term “Grave / Lot Owner” shall include person or persons who have purchased interment or entombment rights or who have permission by right of inheritance or designation.
The term “Interment” shall mean either earth burial or entombment.
The term “Inurnment” shall mean the placement of a cremated remains in the columbarium.
The term “Local Ordinary” refers to the Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois
The term “Lot” shall include and apply to one, or more than one adjoining grave, or one or more than one adjoining crypt.
The term “Management” shall mean the Board of Directors of Calvary Cemetery Association and the person or persons duly appointed by Calvary Cemetery Board for the purpose of conducting and administrating the cemetery owned and operated by said Board.
The term “Memorial” shall include monument, tombstone, (i.e., headstone, footstone, grave marker, or tablet). Memorial includes inscription on crypt front or façade, for one or more deceased persons.
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Purpose of Cemetery
Cemetery is intended for the interment of Catholics who are entitled to Christian burial according to the rules and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church. Any question of the burial of a non-Catholic member of a grave / lot owners’ family, or of any person not entitled to Christian burial according to the rules and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church, shall be decided exclusively by the management, or of local ordinary of the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois, and such decision shall be final.
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Admission to Cemetery
The management reserves the right to refuse admission to the cemetery and to refuse the use of any of the cemetery’s equipment or facilities at any time to any person or persons as the rules, judgment and tradition may dictate.
IV
Arrangements for and Interments, Inurnment, Entombments
The management shall have the right to request those wishing to make a selection of a grave, inurnment, or entombments in a mausoleum, to complete an on-line internment form two (2) business days prior to the burial.
Only a duly-authorized Roman Catholic priest or Deacon or lay person duly approved by the management may officiate at the gravesite.
Burials shall not be admitted to the cemetery when they are escorted or accompanied by regalia or banners or societies, organizations or lodges which are banned by Ecclesiastical law. Certain fraternal or lodge services not otherwise forbidden by church law, may be permitted by the management, provided specific permission is obtained in a reasonable time in advance.
The management may accept a request for an interment for an opening of a grave for any purpose on proper written authorization from any grave owner of record, unless there are written instructions to the contrary on file in the office of said management. To avoid inconvenience, the management may accept from a grave owner a properly signed electronic form of communication for interment authorization.
The Management reserves the right to prohibit an interment in a grave space, if the cemetery records do not clearly indicate the grave space is unoccupied, or if the records for the grave space in question have been destroyed or for other valid reasons that the Management, after consultation with the board, determine interment should be prohibited.
The management shall not be responsible for any order given by telephone or any mistake occurring from the want of proper instructions as to the size of the casket or to the particular grave or crypt location where interment is to be made. The Management reserves the right to make an equitable charge whenever additional labor cost results from such mistakes.
The Management shall be in no way liable for any delay in the interment of a body where a protest to the interment has been made, or where the rules and regulations have not been complied with, or where said rules and regulations shall forbid such interment. Any protest may be required to be in writing and filed in the cemetery office.
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Interment Procedure
All funeral processions on entering the cemetery shall be under the exclusive charge and sole direction of the management.
A burial permit for each funeral as required by the local governmental or public authority having jurisdiction on the matter must be presented to the management before interment is completed.
The management shall not be liable for the burial permit or responsible for the accuracy of the data contained in said permit or for the identity of the person to be interred or entombed.
The management reserves the right to demand written evidence of eligibility for Catholic burial according to the norms of canon law.
The casket or urn may not be opened at any time within the cemetery without the express permission (and in the presence) of the management. The management reserves the right to refuse permission to anyone to open the casket or to touch the body without the consent of the legal representative of the deceased or without a court order. In the event necessity requires the management reserves the right to take appropriate steps to correct any improper conditions.
No disinterment or removal shall be allowed except with the permission of the management and with written authorization of grave owner and nearest of kin and with proper legal procedure.
The management shall exercise due care in making a disinterment and removal, (from cemetery grounds), but it shall assume no liability for the damage to any casket or burial case incurred in making the disinterment and removal.
The management shall have the right to designate the hour and manner in which interments, disinterment’s and removals will or will not be permitted. All interments, disinterment and removals shall be subject to the payment of such charges as shall be fixed by the management.
Besides being subject to these rules and regulations, all interments, disinterment, and removals shall be subject to the orders and laws of the properly constituted authorities of the city, county and state.
Equipment owned by the management shall be used exclusively for interments, disinterment’s and removals.
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Correction of Errors
The management reserves, and shall have, the rights to correct any errors that may be made by it either in making interments, disinterment’s, or removals, or in the description, transfer or conveyance of any interment rights or grave, either by cancelling such conveyance and substituting and conveying in lieu thereof other interment rights or grave of equal value and similar location as far as possible, as may be selected by the management, or, in the sole discretion of the management, by refunding the money paid on account of said purchase. In the event any such error shall involve the interment of the remains of any person in any grave, the management reserves, and shall have, the right to remove and reinter the remains in such other grave of equal value and similar location as may be substituted and conveyed in lieu thereof.
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Instructions to Grave / Lot Owners
Persons arranging for interments must contact the cemetery office, where the management will aid them in effecting the necessary arrangements.
The management reserves the right to specify the terms of purchase of all interment rights in graves.
No coping, curbing, fencing, hedging, borders or enclosures of any kind shall be allowed around the grave. The management reserves the right to remove such if so erected, planted or placed. Management reserves the right to remove existing coping, curbing, fencing, hedging, borders or enclosures of any kind.
All ground interments/inurnments shall be made with a burial vault.
The management reserves the right to authorize and charge for the interment of more than one human remain in one grave. The management may exercise this right with reference to single graves or any section of graves with appropriate additional interment fees and observing cemetery regulations. Three human remains is the maximum for any one grave. If a grave monument is placed, it must identify the multiple human remains in the one grave.
Interment of non-Catholic members of a Catholic family will be permitted under certain circumstances, as the church does not wish to separate in death those who are united in life, but such interment shall be subject in each instance to permission from the management or local ordinary, and in no case will any non-Catholic religious service be permitted within the cemetery.
The use of grave /lot is for the grave /lot owner or grave /lot owner’s relatives for interment purpose only and not for resell or profit. By special permission of the management a person not a member of the lot owner’s family may be interred in said grave /lot, but in no case shall a grave /lot owner have any rights to sell, transfer, exchange or in any manner, (except as herein provided in these rules and regulations), dispose of said grave /lot or any parts thereof, or any right or interest therein or any use of said grave /lot.
In the event of death of a grave /lot owner all privileges of the grave /lot owner shall pass to the grave /lot owner’s family in the following manner:
- The spouse of an owner of any lot containing more than one interment space has a vested right of interment of his/her remains, in the lot.
- If the grave /lot owner shall have filled written instructions at the cemetery office as to which member or members of his/her family shall succeed to the right of said grave /lot, said instructions will be recognized by the management and will be followed if in the judgment of said management such instructions are definite, reasonable and practical, subject however to a vested right of interment of the surviving spouse.
- If no valid or sufficient written instructions shall have been filed and such office, or a valid and sufficient instructions are in conflict with a later will, and the lot owner has left instructions in said will, duly admitted to probate in a court having jurisdiction thereof, subject however, to a vested right of interment of the surviving spouse, such instructions shall control, provided they are not in conflict with the cemetery rules and regulations then in force and provided the cemetery office is furnished with proof of the same.
- In the absence of valid or sufficient written instructions filed at said cemetery office by the lot owner or duly probate will, the rights of interment shall devolve upon those entitled to succeed thereto by the laws of succession of the state of Illinois.
- In a conveyance to two or more persons as joint tenants, each joint tenant has a vested right of interment in the lot conveyed. Upon the death of a joint tenant, the title to the lot held in joint tendency immediately vest in the survivors, subject to the vested right of interment the remains of the deceased joint tenant. A vested right of interment may be waived and is terminated upon interment elsewhere of the remains of the person in whom vested. An affidavit by a person having knowledge of the fact setting forth the fact of the death of the owner and the name of the person or persons entitled to the use of the lot is complete authorization to the management to permit the use of the unoccupied portion of the lot by the person entitled to the use of it. An affidavit by any person having knowledge of the facts setting forth and the fact of the death of one joint tenant and establishing the identity of the surviving joint tenants named in the deed to any lot, when filed with the management, Is complete authorization to the management to permit the use of the unoccupied portion of the lot in accordance with the directions of the surviving joint tenants or their successors in interest.
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Service Charges in Payments
The management shall have the right to fix a charge and time of payment for each interment, disinterment, removal, grave transferred or returned, and for the performance of any other service rendered by the management; and all work in conjunction with such service shall be subject to the determination and supervision of said management.
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Right to Replat
The following rights and privileges are hereby expressly reserved to the management to be exercise exercised at any time or from time to time for the erection of buildings, and for any purpose or use connected with, incident to, or convenient for, the care of, preservation of, or preparation for the disposal or interment of, human dead bodies or other cemetery purpose:
To resurvey, enlarge, diminish, replat, alter, in shape or size, or otherwise to change all or any part or portion of the cemetery.
To lay out, establish, close, eliminate, or otherwise modify or change, the location of roads, walks or drives, provided ingress and egress to and from any lot is preserved or is allocated to the lot owner.
The following rights and privileges are hereby expressly reserved to the management, to be exercised at any time or from time to time:
- Easements and rights of way over and through all of said cemetery premises for the purpose of installing, maintaining and operating pipelines, conduits or drains for sprinklers, drainage, electric or communication lines or for any other cemetery purpose.
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No Easements Granted
No easement or right of interment is granted to any lot owner, or grave owner in any road, drive or walk within the cemetery, but such road, drive or walk maybe used as means of access to the cemetery and its buildings as long as the management the devotes such road, drive or walk to that purpose. Management reserves the right to make such placements as appropriate and needed and within proper cemetery guidelines.
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Use of Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery is a private cemetery not for public use.
Persons visiting the cemetery must be on the grounds for the purpose of visiting a grave site or shall be considered a trespasser. Management reserves the right to require that trespassers leave the cemetery property and call public authorities when necessary.
Family and friends visiting graves are always welcome. Children should be accompanied by an adult; visitors are not allowed to climb on monuments for their safety. However, the general public, (i.e., persons not visiting graves), are not welcomed and are considered trespassers on private property. Activities such as dog walking or bringing animals into the cemetery, walking/jogging, pleasure bike riding, pleasure cemetery walks, unless authorized by management, etc. are not allowed. These activities can interfere with cemetery work as well as pose possible risk of danger/accidents. These activities also can create a distraction or congestion for the families and friends visiting the graves.
Cemetery Grounds and Grave Sites -shall not be disturbed for any purpose except under the supervision of the management.
Ornaments and flower vases-The right is reserved to regulate the method of decorations of the graves so that the uniform beauty may be maintained. The use of boxes, shells, toys, trinkets of any type, metal designs, ornaments, vases, glass or crockery jars and containers, wood or metal cases, potted plants, or any other decoration not deemed appropriate by management, or that would interfere in the proper care and maintenance of the cemetery grounds will be removed. Articles that do not meet cemetery regulations may be removed by management. Acceptable decorations include flower vases incorporated in the base of the headstone, artificial headstone silk flower blankets, silk flower hanging basket with appropriate hook, (see example below), and outdoor flower vase flower holder. Single stem flowers, (real or silk), inserted in the ground without a flower vase holder may be removed. Flower vase holders should be inserted in the ground directly in front (or to the side) of the footstone, headstone. Flags of any kind may be removed. Raised flower beds around headstones or footstones are not allowed. One decoration is allowed per each grave site.
Examples of appropriate flower vase holders. Please note, plastic flower vase holders are not sturdy and may be damaged in the course of ground maintenance.
Examples of Flower Vase Holders:
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- flower spike spike .
Shepherd Hooks
As of October 1, 2024 shepherd hooks and hanging baskets will no longer be allowed in the cemetery. Furthermore, effective October 1, 2025, all remaining shepherd hooks and baskets will be removed.
Floral Frames
As of October 1, 2024 floral frames will no longer be allowed in the cemetery.
Furthermore, effective October 1, 2025, all remaining floral frames will be removed.
No permanent floral decorations (bushes, trees, perennials or annual plants) of any kind will be permitted.
Other prohibited grave decorations include but are not limited to beer cans, cigars, cigarettes toys, solar lights, wind spinners, or any other sentimental décor’.
Not liable for floral pieces or vases- The management shall not be liable for vases, floral pieces, baskets or flowers in which or to which such floral pieces are attached, beyond the acceptance of such floral pieces for funeral services held in the cemetery.
Motor vehicles- Automobiles, funeral coaches and trucks, or any other vehicle must not exceed 20 miles per hour when driving through the gates of the cemetery or anywhere within the cemetery. Automobiles are not allowed to park near or come to a full stop in front of an open grave unless such automobile(s) are in attendance at a funeral. It is prohibited to park or leave any motor vehicle on any road or driveway within the cemetery at such locations or in such position as to prevent any other vehicle from passing, and if so parked or left, the management may remove said vehicle. Management may at times, for burial services, allow double parking on selected roadways for the convenience of the individuals attending the burial service.
Bicycles and motorcycles-The management reserves the right to refuse admission to the cemetery by bicycles or motorcycles, and has the authority to request the immediate removal and exit from cemetery grounds of said bicycles or motorcycles.
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Conduct in cemetery
Idling, loafing, loitering, boisterous demonstrations, or any other behavior deemed inappropriate by management within the cemetery or any of its buildings is prohibited.
Trash- the throwing of trash on roads, driveways, paths, walkways, or any part of the cemetery grounds or in the buildings is prohibited. Receptacles for waste material are located at multiple locations throughout the cemetery.
Picnicking-picnicking or partaking of any food refreshment by visitors within the cemetery, unless a medical necessity is prohibited.
Flowers and shrubs-No one shall pluck any flower or break any branches, or remove, injure, or cut any tree, plant, or shrub without specific permission of the management.
Landscaping Tools – Garden Tools, shovels, pitchforks, power grass trimmers, manual or power hedge clippers, lawn mowers, chain saws, hand saws, or any other tools, are not allowed without permission from the management.
Peddling or soliciting- No one shall be permitted to peddle flowers, plants or any other article or item, or to solicit the sale of any commodity whatsoever within the cemetery unless authorized by the management and under its direct supervision.
Signs in advertising-No signs, notices and advertising of any kind shall be allowed within cemetery except those placed by the management.
Improper assemblages-The management reserves the right to forbid and prevent assemblages which it deems improper.
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Grading and Improvements
All grading, landscape work and improvements of any kind and all care of graves/lots shall be planted, trimmed, cut or removed solely by the management.
All improvements or alterations of grave/lots in the cemetery shall be under the direction of and subject to the approval of the management. Should grave owners make such improvements without written consent of the management, said management reserves the right to remove, alter or change such improvements or alterations at the expense of the grave/lot owner.
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Cemetery Hours
The management shall have the right to fix the opening and closing hours of the cemetery, cemetery office and buildings.
Cemetery Entrance/Exit Gates
Management has the right to fix opening and closing hours of cemetery gates. Times for gate closing are posted on every street sign. All visitors shall exit the cemetery prior to closing. Visitors in the cemetery after closing time will be considered trespassing.
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Outside Worker
No workers other than employees of the management will be permitted to work in the cemetery unless authorized by said management. However, grave/lot owners may have certain work done in the accordance with the cemetery rules and regulations at their own expense upon application to the management; prices to be agreed-upon and paid before said work is done.
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Employees
Cemetery employees are not permitted to do any work for grave/lot owners except upon the orders of the management and are required to be civil and courteous to all visitors.
Under penalty of immediate dismissal, no cemetery employee shall receive any fee, gratuity or commission, directly or indirectly, except from the management.
The management shall have the right to maintain guards if in its discretion it seems necessary, but is under no legal obligation to do so.
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Loss or Damage
The management disclaims all responsibility for the loss or damage from causes beyond its reasonable control, and especially from damage by an act of God, the elements, earthquakes, war, common enemy, air raids, invasions, insurrections, riots, order of any military or civil authority, thieves, vandals, strikers, malicious mischief makers, explosions, unavoidable accidents, or any cause similar or dissimilar beyond the control of the management whether the damage be direct or collateral. In the event it becomes necessary to reconstruct or repair any section or lot, including graves or crypts, or any portion or portions thereof in the cemetery, which has been damaged by such causes, the management shall give a 10-day written notice of the necessity for such repair to the grave/lot owner of record. In the event the grave/lot owner fails to repair the damage within a reasonable time, the management may direct that the repairs be made and charge the expense against the grave/lot owner of record.
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Grave /Lot Owners Change of Address
It shall be the duty of the grave/lot owner to notify the management of any change in their post office address. Notice sent to a grave/lot owner at the last address in the management records shall be considered sufficient and proper legal notification.
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Care
This section shall apply only to those graves/lots where care has been provided for in a contract. Care is to be understood as that care and maintenance of graves/lots necessitated by natural growth and ordinary wear and includes cleaning, planting, cutting, watering, and care of lawns, trees; the cleaning and maintenance of roadways and walks, provided there are sufficient cemetery funds for that purpose.
The term care shall in no case mean the maintenance, repair or replacement of any memorial placed or erected upon any lot ; nor the planting of flowers or ornamental plants; nor the doing of any special or unusual work in the cemetery; nor does it mean the reconstruction of any marker, granite, bronze or concrete work on any section of the grave/lot , or any portion or portions thereof in the cemetery, injured or damaged by any cause, direct or indirect, beyond the management’s reasonable control.
Special care shall include only those specific services set forth in special care agreements with the lot owners, provided said services are not inconsistent with the purpose for which the cemetery was established or being maintained.
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Rules for Monuments and Memorials
NOTE: All monuments and memorials are the property of the deceased family buried in the cemetery and as such the family is responsible for the upkeep and care of said monuments and memorials.
All monuments and memorials will be in compliance with the most current guidelines available at the Cemetery office. Memorial Dealers can contact cemetery management for current guidelines.
The management always reserves the right to approve and prescribe the kind, size, design, symbolism, craftsmanship, quality and material of all memorials, inscriptions, monuments or markers placed or to be placed in the cemetery. All memorials are subject to the approval of the management prior to the placement, and acceptance or rejection shall be based upon such approval.
The management also reserves the right to issue under separate cover detailed regulations and instructions pertaining to the kind, size, design, symbolism, craftsmanship, quality and materials of the memorials, and inscriptions, monuments or markers to be placed in the cemetery. Said detailed regulations and instructions of all amendments thereto are hereby made a part of these rules and regulations.
The management reserves the right to fix the days and hours when permit may be obtained and when any Memorial may be delivered to the cemetery.
All memorial work, placement or removal of any memorial, shall be on the written order of the lot owner, and with the permit issued by the management.
The management reserves the right to fix charges for memorial foundations, memorial permits, placements or removals, and the right to demand said charges be paid in advance and before the work is done. The management also reserves the right to fix and charge a fee for any memorial left at the cemetery before a cemetery permit has been issued.
A detailed plan and design of all memorials must be submitted to the management for approval before a permit will be issued, and no Memorial shall be erected or placed until checked, approved, and accepted by the management. If the memorial does not conform in every detail to the approved design, it shall be the sole responsibility of the dealer to correct any errors or deficiencies in the workmanship in material.
The location and position in which the memorial is to be placed or erected on a grave /lot shall be entirely subject to the approval and under the supervision of the management.
No monument extending above the surface of the ground shall be erected on grave /lots not specifically set apart for such monument privilege.
Only one upright marker will be permitted on each grave. No marker shall be set to embrace two or more graves unless specifically permitted by the management.
Non-cemetery employees, in placing or erecting monuments or other structures, or bringing materials in regard to such work, shall (as to management) operate as independent contractors, but must do so under permission from the management, and under its supervision.
Non-cemetery workers engaged in placing or erecting monuments or other structures, are prohibited from scattering their materials over adjoining lots, or blocking roads or walks, or from leaving their material on the ground longer than it’s absolutely necessary.
Damage done to lots, walks, drives, trees, shrubs and other property by non-cemetery workers, dealers, or contractors, or their agents, shall be repaired by the management; and cost of such repair shall be charged to the dealer or contractors or to his principal.
Management reserves the right to stop all work of any nature, whenever, in its opinion proper preparation has not been made, when work is being done in such a manner as to endanger life or property, when there is evidence of misrepresentation, when work is not being executed according to specifications, or when any reasonable request on the part of the management is disregarded; or when any person employed on the work violates any rules of the management.
The management will exercise all possible care to protect raised lettering, carving or moments on any memorials, or other structure, on any grave /lots it disclaims responsibility for damage or injury there too.
Management reserves, and shall have, the right to correct any error that may be made by its employees or by any other person or persons in the locating of or replacing of memorials in the cemetery.
Should any memorial, mausoleum or tomb become unsightly, dilapidated, or a menace to the safety of persons within the cemetery, management shall have the right either to correct the condition or to remove the same, in either case at the expense of the lot owner.
Soliciting memorial sales or memorial work within the cemetery is not permitted
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Mausoleums and Tombs
Mausoleums or tombs, either wholly or partially above ground, shall be constructed only in areas so designated. Plans, specifications, material and location in the lot of such mausoleum or tomb shall be subject to the approval of the management
When interment is made in a private mausoleum, the crypt shall be properly sealed as directed by the management.
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Columbarium
The Calvary Cemetery Immaculata Columbarium is an above ground structure owned and blessed by the Springfield Catholic Diocese for the purpose of cremains burial. The structures utilized for burial, as well as the landscaping, benches, and planters surrounding those structures, are the property of Calvary Cemetery. The bronze plaque on each niche however, is the property of the family of the deceased. Calvary Cemetery retains approval of design and size of said plaque and will be responsible for ordering and installing with financial responsibility of the family. The memorial plaque must be ordered within a year from internment. As part of Calvary Cemetery’s grounds and property, the columbarium is considered a communal space rather than individual spaces and, as such, is subject to specific guidelines for decoration and maintenance. To provide a safe, attractive, and respectful environment for visitors of the Immaculata Columbarium site, the following rules apply:
- For decoration of individual niches in all columbarium structures:
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- A small bud vase may be purchased from Calvary Cemetery and installed by Calvary Cemetery staff on the face of an individual niche. The purchase of an individual vase is optional.
- Only bud vases approved by, purchased from, and installed by Calvary Cemetery may be used for individual niches.
- Decorative items left in individual niche vases may not cover the bronze plaque on the niche or extend into neighboring niches.
- No pictures, stickers, or decorative items other than those items placed in cemetery approved vases may be stuck to the front of the niche or left in seams around niches.
- No decorative items may be left on the ledge of columbarium structures or on the ground in front of niches.
- No decorative items may be left on the top of any columbarium structures.
- All unauthorized décor’ will be removed. *
- For decoration of columbarium area:
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- Planters are provided in landscaped areas of the columbarium for seasonal plantings and
- Only plants and décor provided by Calvary Cemetery may be placed in cemetery owned planters.
- Benches are provided on the property around the columbarium structures for visitor seating and must remain free of decor to be accessible.
- Decorative items placed on benches will be removed.
- The landscaped areas around all columbarium structures will remain clear of décor to provide for the safety and cleanliness of the communal space.
- Decorative items may not be left in landscaped areas surrounding planters.
- Decorative items may not be stuck between paving bricks.
- Decorative items may not be left on the ground on or around columbarium structures or anywhere on the landscaped grounds of the Immaculata Columbarium.
- Any unauthorized décor left on the grounds surrounding the columbarium structures will be removed. *
*Effective October 1 2024 all unauthorized décor’ will no longer be allowed in the Immaculata Columbarium. Effective October 1, 2025 all remaining unauthorized décor’ will be removed
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In General
No statement of any employee of the management, or individual board member or volunteer shall be binding upon the management except as such statement coincides with the document conveying the right of interment in these rules and regulations.
These rules and regulations shall apply to any mausoleum now in existence or which may hear-after be erected in the cemetery.
The management reserves the right, without notice, to make temporary exceptions, suspensions or modifications in any of these rules or regulations when, in its judgment, the same appear advisable; in such a temporary exception, suspension or modification shall in no way be considered as affecting the general application of such rule.
In all matters not specifically covered by these rules and regulations management reserves the right to do anything which in its judgment is deemed responsible in the premises, and such determination shall be binding upon the lot owner and all parties concerned.
The management reserves the right at any time or from time to time to change, amend, altar, repeal, rescind or add to these rules and regulations or any part thereof or to adopt any new rule or regulation with respect to said cemetery or anything pertaining there to said cemetery.
The above rules and regulations were approved at Springfield Illinois on this First day of October, 2024.
Calvary Cemetery Board of Directors