4. Cemeteries
4.4 Erection and Maintenance of Monuments
4.4.1
All monuments shall be installed to New Zealand Standard for Headstones and Cemetery Monuments NZS 4242 and kept in good order or repair by the purchasers of the plots or their agents. Subject to the provisions of the Burial and Cremation (Removal of Monuments and Tablets) Regulation 1967, the Council may remove any installation of any kind that shall fall into a state of disrepair. A photographic record of the memorial shall be taken prior to removal and retained in cemetery records.
4.4.2
The Council may carry out regular audits of monuments to ensure their safety.
4.4.3
No person shall without the written permission of the Council remove any monument or tablet from any cemetery or grave.
4.5.4
Except with the prior approval by the Council of an application for installation, no monument or tablet shall be erected in any cemetery. Any monument or tablet must comply with the requirements of the Council.
4.4.5
All vases and containers for flowers in cemeteries shall be placed in such a manner as approved by the Council.
4.4.6
No adornments or ornaments shall be constructed, erected, or placed or trees or shrubs planted on any grave or in any part of any cemetery by any person without the consent of the Council being first obtained.
4.4.7
Shrubs planted in any portion of a cemetery may at any time be trimmed, removed or cut down by order of the local authority.
4.4.7
Any tablet in a lawn cemetery must consist of permanent material, be of an approved size and set in an appropriate position with all the inscriptions relating to the persons buried in each plot to be on the one tablet.
4.4.8
The installation of monuments and tablets or repairs and installation of concrete ground berms or bases shall be carried out to the satisfaction of the Council.
4.4.9
No person shall, without the authority of the Cemetery Manager, remove or take from any grave, any vase, wreath, plant, flower or other object, except where the Council may have cause to remove any neglected or broken material of this nature.
