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Building and grounds supervisor: only flat VA markers allowed in veterans section; family to replace vertical marker
Summary
Jimmy Martinez told the advisory committee that only flat VA grave markers are acceptable in the Veterans section of Chief Tecopa Cemetery and that a family has been provided written guidelines and will replace a vertical marker with an acceptable flat marker.
Jimmy Martinez, Building and Grounds supervisor, informed the Pahrump Veterans Memorial Advisory Committee on Feb. 19, 2026, that only flat Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) markers are acceptable in the Veterans section of Chief Tecopa Cemetery. Martinez said he provided the family with the written Veterans section guidelines and that the family will replace the vertical marker with an appropriate flat VA grave marker.
Martinez presented the cemetery guidance as an operational enforcement action rather than a policy debate; the committee did not take separate formal action at the meeting. The minutes record the supervisors statement that only flat markers are acceptable and that written guidelines were provided to the family. No statute or ordinance was cited in the minutes; the committee noted the familys intent to comply.
