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Hays commission adopts cemetery ordinance updates and raises certain fees after 20 years
Summary
The commission adopted Ordinance No. 4,073 to amend sections of city code Chapter 17 governing city cemeteries, updating language, tightening permit timelines and increasing several fees that had not been changed in more than two decades.
The Hays City Commission on June 12 adopted Ordinance No. 4,073, approving amendments to Articles 1, 2 and 3 of Chapter 17 of the city code that revise cemetery procedures, clarify headstone and interment requirements and increase several fees that have not been changed in more than 20 years.
Jeff Boyle, Director of Parks, said the code cleanup removes outdated language (for example, references to grazing horses), clarifies requirements that state law requires (including a cemetery certificate signed by the mayor), standardizes notice timelines for interments and disinterments, and adds explicit headstone rules for Memorial Garden Cemetery. "We have not…
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