PIONEER MEMORIAL CEMETERY BYLAWS
CIBOLA COUNTY
BLUEWATER, NEW MEXICO
February 21 2024
ORDINANCE _______
An ordinance amending, superseding and replacing previous and all existing ordinances establishing a municipal memorial, to be known and designated as, Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, creating a Cemetery Board; prescribing the powers and duties of said Board; authorizing the establishment' approval and publication of rules and regulations for the care, management and control of the Pioneer Memorial Cemetery; providing for the appointment of cemetery board members, prescribing the terms of office of members of the Board and manner of filling vacancies on said Board; prescribing the method for handling all cemetery funds; creating a "cemetery maintenance fund; providing for the preparation and approval of a plot of cemetery property, and for the sale of plots (graves) for burial; providing penalties for violations; repealing all inconsistent ordinances; and including savings provisions.
Be it ordained by the governing body (The Board of the Pioneer memorial Cemetery, Cibola County, Bluewater, New Mexico as follows:
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SECTION 1. DECLARATION OF POLICY
The Pioneer memorial Cemetery, Cibola County, Bluewater, New Mexico, hereby accepts, approves and ratifies all action heretofore taken by the Board appointed under the State of New Mexico for approval and listed in the Cibola County Tax Records, and having examined the Cemetery property hereinafter described, hereby established the following described land and real estate located in the southeast part of Bluewater Village, Cibola County, New Mexico, and more particularly described as follows:
Pioneer Memorial Cemetery to be known and designated as Pioneer Memorial Cemetery consisting of one (1) tract(s):
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As a municipal memorial to be known and designated as “Pioneer Memorial Cemetery” and under the provisions of 3-40-1 ET. Seq. N.M.S.A. 1978, as a part of Municipal functions of the Cibola County, deems it necessary for the interests of the inhabitants of the Cibola County, New Mexico, to create a Cemetery Board to have the care, management and control of Pioneer Memorial Cemetery described above.
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SECTION 2. CREEATING OF CEMETERY BOARD - POWERS AI\ID DUTIES - APPROVAL AND PUBLICATION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS:
There is hereby created a Pioneer memorial Cemetery board, to be known as the :Pioneer memorial Cemetery Board: of the County of Cibola, New Mexico, "to administer this Ordinance and to recommend rules and regulations pursuant thereto, including the care, management and operations of Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, said board shall make from time to time rules and regulations governing the time and place of the meeting of the Board, and all needful and necessary rules and regulations for the operation, management, care and custody of said Cemetery, and provide for such other employees or workmen necessary for the proper care, maintenance, and beautifying of the Cemetery, and may by Resolution recommend the price or prices to be charged for plots or burial places and burials, and prescribe the manner and place of burials, and provide for the expenses incurred in maintaining the Cemetery out of moneys received from the general funds of the Board appropriated for such purpose by the Cemetery Board.
All rules and regulations so established shall be subject to approval of the Cemetery Board and shall become effective after a vote of the Board. This vote may be completed by a called meeting or by a personal telephone call of each board member.
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SECTION 3. APPOINTMENT OF BOARD MEMBERS.
The Cemetery Board of the Pioneer memorial Cemetery, Cibola County, New Mexico shall consist of eight (8) members. The members of the board shall serve without compensation unless under certain circumstances the Board permits moneys for reimbursements or special project work. The members of the Board when appointed/elected as hereinafter provided, shall meet within ten (10) days after their appointment, and organize by the election of a President, Vice President, Secretary and /or Treasurer and members at large, four (4) directors and shall adopt regulations governing the time and place of the meetings of the Board.
SECTION 4. APPOINTMENT OF TERMS OF OFFICE OF BOARD MEMBERS AND BOARD VACANCIES.
The members of the Cemetery Board shall be appointed for terms of office as follows: as long as they are willing to serve. In the event of a vacancy should at anytime occur in the membership of the Board as a result of death, resignation, incapacity to serve or removal of any manner thereof, then and in such event such vacancy shall be filled. The President of the Board or his representative will appoint a new member to fill the Board vacancy. Once a member has been appointed to the Board, his or her appointment shall continue until he or she can no longer serve.
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SECTION 5. MEMORIAL FUNDS.
The Cemetery account shall be kept and maintained into one bank account The treasurer shall be responsible to administer the account and pay all bills for the purposes of maintenance, repairs, construction, replacement, purchasing and the care of the Cemetery.
SECTION 6. MEMORIALS.
All memorials made to the Cemetery Board shall be used for the beautification of the Pioneer Memorial Cemetery.
SECTION 7. PLAT OF MEMORIAL PROPERTY –
SALE OF LOTS AND BURIAL PLOTS.
The Board herein created shall have the power and authority to prepare and approve of a plat sub-dividing Pioneer Memorial Cemetery into lots and burial plots (graves). The Board shall have the like powers and authority with reference to any and all additional lands and property within reference to any and all additional lands and property acquired by the board for Cemetery purposes. The municipality in disposing of a burial lot shall issue a receipt given to the purchaser by the Treasurer.
SECTION 8. PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.
Any person found breaking, defacing, altering any wall, walk, gate, fence or structure of said Cemetery; or cutting or defacing any tree, post, monument, tombstone, slab, shrub, flower, hedge, or any part of the well-house door, lighting, chain and lock securing the well house or any other thing such as the main gate or any other gates, or the main gate into the cemetery, or any property of the Cemetery or any other thing to harm the complex; or violating any other provision of this Ordinance; shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than $300 per item including costs of restoration of items damaged or by imprisonment for period set forth by the Judge in District Court of the County of Cibola, State of New Mexico.
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SECTION 9. SAVINGS PROVISION
If any of the sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses or phrases of the ordinance are for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the validity of the remaining of the remaining potions of this ordinance shall not be thereby affected, since it is the express intent of the Board to pass each section, sub-section, sentence, clause, and phrase separately.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APROVED BY THE
Pioneer Memorial Board at its regularly scheduled meeting on ___2/24/2024_________
CIBOLA COUNTY
BLUEWATER, NEW MEXICO
February 21 2024
ORDINANCE _______
An ordinance amending, superseding and replacing previous and all existing ordinances establishing a municipal memorial, to be known and designated as, Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, creating a Cemetery Board; prescribing the powers and duties of said Board; authorizing the establishment' approval and publication of rules and regulations for the care, management and control of the Pioneer Memorial Cemetery; providing for the appointment of cemetery board members, prescribing the terms of office of members of the Board and manner of filling vacancies on said Board; prescribing the method for handling all cemetery funds; creating a "cemetery maintenance fund; providing for the preparation and approval of a plot of cemetery property, and for the sale of plots (graves) for burial; providing penalties for violations; repealing all inconsistent ordinances; and including savings provisions.
Be it ordained by the governing body (The Board of the Pioneer memorial Cemetery, Cibola County, Bluewater, New Mexico as follows:
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SECTION 1. DECLARATION OF POLICY
The Pioneer memorial Cemetery, Cibola County, Bluewater, New Mexico, hereby accepts, approves and ratifies all action heretofore taken by the Board appointed under the State of New Mexico for approval and listed in the Cibola County Tax Records, and having examined the Cemetery property hereinafter described, hereby established the following described land and real estate located in the southeast part of Bluewater Village, Cibola County, New Mexico, and more particularly described as follows:
Pioneer Memorial Cemetery to be known and designated as Pioneer Memorial Cemetery consisting of one (1) tract(s):
INSERT
As a municipal memorial to be known and designated as “Pioneer Memorial Cemetery” and under the provisions of 3-40-1 ET. Seq. N.M.S.A. 1978, as a part of Municipal functions of the Cibola County, deems it necessary for the interests of the inhabitants of the Cibola County, New Mexico, to create a Cemetery Board to have the care, management and control of Pioneer Memorial Cemetery described above.
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SECTION 2. CREEATING OF CEMETERY BOARD - POWERS AI\ID DUTIES - APPROVAL AND PUBLICATION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS:
There is hereby created a Pioneer memorial Cemetery board, to be known as the :Pioneer memorial Cemetery Board: of the County of Cibola, New Mexico, "to administer this Ordinance and to recommend rules and regulations pursuant thereto, including the care, management and operations of Pioneer Memorial Cemetery, said board shall make from time to time rules and regulations governing the time and place of the meeting of the Board, and all needful and necessary rules and regulations for the operation, management, care and custody of said Cemetery, and provide for such other employees or workmen necessary for the proper care, maintenance, and beautifying of the Cemetery, and may by Resolution recommend the price or prices to be charged for plots or burial places and burials, and prescribe the manner and place of burials, and provide for the expenses incurred in maintaining the Cemetery out of moneys received from the general funds of the Board appropriated for such purpose by the Cemetery Board.
All rules and regulations so established shall be subject to approval of the Cemetery Board and shall become effective after a vote of the Board. This vote may be completed by a called meeting or by a personal telephone call of each board member.
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SECTION 3. APPOINTMENT OF BOARD MEMBERS.
The Cemetery Board of the Pioneer memorial Cemetery, Cibola County, New Mexico shall consist of eight (8) members. The members of the board shall serve without compensation unless under certain circumstances the Board permits moneys for reimbursements or special project work. The members of the Board when appointed/elected as hereinafter provided, shall meet within ten (10) days after their appointment, and organize by the election of a President, Vice President, Secretary and /or Treasurer and members at large, four (4) directors and shall adopt regulations governing the time and place of the meetings of the Board.
SECTION 4. APPOINTMENT OF TERMS OF OFFICE OF BOARD MEMBERS AND BOARD VACANCIES.
The members of the Cemetery Board shall be appointed for terms of office as follows: as long as they are willing to serve. In the event of a vacancy should at anytime occur in the membership of the Board as a result of death, resignation, incapacity to serve or removal of any manner thereof, then and in such event such vacancy shall be filled. The President of the Board or his representative will appoint a new member to fill the Board vacancy. Once a member has been appointed to the Board, his or her appointment shall continue until he or she can no longer serve.
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SECTION 5. MEMORIAL FUNDS.
The Cemetery account shall be kept and maintained into one bank account The treasurer shall be responsible to administer the account and pay all bills for the purposes of maintenance, repairs, construction, replacement, purchasing and the care of the Cemetery.
SECTION 6. MEMORIALS.
All memorials made to the Cemetery Board shall be used for the beautification of the Pioneer Memorial Cemetery.
SECTION 7. PLAT OF MEMORIAL PROPERTY –
SALE OF LOTS AND BURIAL PLOTS.
The Board herein created shall have the power and authority to prepare and approve of a plat sub-dividing Pioneer Memorial Cemetery into lots and burial plots (graves). The Board shall have the like powers and authority with reference to any and all additional lands and property within reference to any and all additional lands and property acquired by the board for Cemetery purposes. The municipality in disposing of a burial lot shall issue a receipt given to the purchaser by the Treasurer.
SECTION 8. PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.
Any person found breaking, defacing, altering any wall, walk, gate, fence or structure of said Cemetery; or cutting or defacing any tree, post, monument, tombstone, slab, shrub, flower, hedge, or any part of the well-house door, lighting, chain and lock securing the well house or any other thing such as the main gate or any other gates, or the main gate into the cemetery, or any property of the Cemetery or any other thing to harm the complex; or violating any other provision of this Ordinance; shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine of not more than $300 per item including costs of restoration of items damaged or by imprisonment for period set forth by the Judge in District Court of the County of Cibola, State of New Mexico.
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SECTION 9. SAVINGS PROVISION
If any of the sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses or phrases of the ordinance are for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the validity of the remaining of the remaining potions of this ordinance shall not be thereby affected, since it is the express intent of the Board to pass each section, sub-section, sentence, clause, and phrase separately.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APROVED BY THE
Pioneer Memorial Board at its regularly scheduled meeting on ___2/24/2024_________