Extracts of Rules and Regulations
Saint Peter's Cemetery
ü All Lots in Saint Peter's Cemetery have to be under perpetual care and are charged accordingly. Currently lot costs are $500.00 each and a grave opening is priced at $350.00. The cost of opening for cremains is $150.00. A deposit of 50% is required for the total purchase on the Cemetery lots. The balance is to be paid within a six (6) month period.
ü Monuments or memorials shall be set up on any lot after all cemetery charges are paid.
ü Only one monument or memorial is permitted above ground on any one Lot or single grave. All others (headstones or markers) must be set even with the ground on a cement foundation.
ü Annual flowers, planted in front of the monument, are permitted, as well as live flowers in concrete or appropriate urns. To plant shrubs and trees you must contact our cemetery caretaker. The owner assumes the care of flowers and plants by keeping grass trimmed in that area thus insuring that they do not obstruct the work of the cemetery employees. Just a reminder that there is a water faucet behind the chapel that is always available for the purpose of watering plants.
ü Artificial flowers and wreaths (on the ground or attached to a monument) are not permitted at any time during the year. Toys, metal signs or ornaments, vases, and crockery are not permitted.
ü The certificate of purchase (or deed/easement) must be shown whenever one requests a grave to be opened. Such a request must be made by the Lot owner, his/her representative or responsible agent.
ü No burial shall be allowed in any Lot against which there shall appear overdue charges of any kind.
ü All interments must conform strictly to the Laws, usages and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church in the Diocese of Ogdensburg.
ü All cemetery work (grading and care of Lots, digging of graves, monument foundations, etc.) must be done by the cemetery employees.
ü All dues must be paid at the office of the cemetery at Saint Peter's Rectory at 114 Cornelia Street.
ü Vaults are required for all burials.