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Commission adopts Ordinance No. 2025-1 to regulate Harmony Public Cemetery
Summary
The board unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 2025-1 to add Article III (Cemeteries) to Chapter 20, setting rules on lot sales, interment permits, superintendent duties, maintenance and penalties (fines up to $500). The ordinance takes effect immediately unless specified otherwise.
The Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt Ordinance No. 2025-1, which amends Chapter 20 of the county code to regulate the Cusseta-Chattahoochee County Harmony Public Cemetery. The ordinance codifies definitions (cemetery, plot, interment), names the County Manager as superintendent of cemeteries, requires records of ownership and interments to be maintained at the county office, and sets procedures for sale, transfer, interment scheduling and disinterment consistent with Georgia law.
The ordinance also establishes maintenance standards, authorizes the county to regulate marker size and placement, requires temporary markers be replaced with permanent markers within 12 months, and sets penalties for violations (fines up to $500 per offense). Per the minutes the motion to approve was seconded and the vote was unanimous; the ordinance text and readings appear in the meeting packet and list the first and second reading dates.
