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Lowry City adopts cemetery ordinance allowing one vault and two urns per plot
Summary
Lowry City’s Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted Ordinance 2025‑01 amending cemetery rules to require a concrete or steel burial vault and to allow one vault and two urns per purchased plot.
The Lowry City Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted Ordinance 2025‑01 on Jan. 21, 2025, revising Section 8 of the city’s cemetery regulations to require a concrete or steel burial vault and to allow one vault and two urns on each purchased plot.
The measure, introduced as Bill 2025‑01, was amended during discussion to clarify burial permissions and container requirements. Alderman Sean Langston moved to approve the amended language; Alderman Jackie Cutler seconded. The board approved the bill on its first and second readings and adopted it by a roll‑call vote that was recorded as unanimous.
The ordinance text, as amended at the meeting, states that no person shall bury a corpse on any plot other than their own without written permission of the mayor or board, and specifies vault and urn requirements. The board’s action completes the local adoption process; no effective date beyond adoption was specified at the meeting.
Mayor Patricia Landes presided over the readings of the bill and the roll call. The ordinance updates a longstanding municipal regulation (Ordinance 09‑02) governing cemetery use and is intended to standardize burial containers and clarify plot use.
The board took no separate amendments or conditions when adopting the ordinance. The next procedural step recorded in the meeting minutes was implementation under the city’s code enforcement processes.
