A Catholic cemetery is a sacred place; it is holy ground. Our commitment is to the perpetual care of our cemeteries out of respect for persons who have died and to provide a peaceful environment for family and friends. The uniform beauty of the entire cemetery is our responsibility— one that we take seriously and one for which we invite the support of persons who visit the cemeteries.

To keep the cemeteries beautiful and to promote a safe environment, we respectfully request your cooperation in meeting the following regulations.

Maintaining the beauty and safety of our Catholic Cemeteries

• Through these regulations and the work of our dedicated staff, we strive to maintain the grounds efficiently—controlling weeds, fertilizing, and trimming and mowing. We coordinate this maintenance with regularly scheduled clean-ups.
• We take precautionary steps to avoidinjury to our staff and visitors by not allowing breakable containers, wire attached to monuments or other objects that could become caught in a mower or trimmer.
• We remove decorations on a regular schedule to help ensure the best appearance of cemetery lots.We allow decorations to remain as long as they conform to regulations described in this brochure.
• Because the cemeteries are open to the public with thousands of people visiting annually, it is very difficult to control the activities of every visitor. We regret that we cannot guarantee that decorations will be protected from damage or loss.We caution you against leaving any items of great value on your lot.
• Any decorations deemed by management to be in violation of these regulations will be removed and discarded without notice to the owner. Cemetery management assumes no liability to owners for removing and discarding these items.

Decorations

For upright monuments and flat memorials

Seasonal artificial or live flowers are permitted year-round in cemetery-approved vases.

March 8 through November 1 is our ground maintenance season. Any container or artificial decoration that interferes with ground maintenance will be removed.

For mausoleum areas

Artificial or live flowers are permitted in the exterior patio and garden mausoleum areas. Only artificial flowers can be used in the interior chapel mausoleum areas.

Decoration removal schedule

Annual cemetery clean-up – February 15-March 1

During this time,weather permitting, decorations in all cemeteries will be removed. This includes those in cemetery-approved vases, both in-ground and attached to upright monuments. Memorial Day and other holidays All decorations (except those in cemetery-approved vases) will be removed two weeks following the holiday.

Mausoleum areas

Decorations taped, glued or wired to crypt fronts will be removed immediately by cemetery personnel to prevent stains or damage. There will be two clean-up periods for mausoleum areas: February 15-March 1 and July 15-29. All mausoleum decorations will be removed during this time to minimize clutter and facilitate mausoleum maintenance.

Other year-round regulations

• Decorative shells, rocks, toys, wire fences, vigil lights and similar objects are unsafe and are not permitted in the cemeteries.
• Metal or breakable containers or pieces of wire, etc., can cause injuries to visitors or to personnel mowing and trimming, and are not allowed.
• Digging holes in the ground for placement of flowers or any other purpose is unsafe and not allowed.
• Mowing and trimming are not permitted except by cemetery personnel.
• Cemetery personnel plant flowers,shrubs or trees in designated planting areas. No other planting is allowed. Grass seed or sod is to be planted only by cemetery personnel. (Exceptions may be approved by management.)
• Flags or other insignia are permitted only on Memorial Day.

Your cooperation with these regulations will help keep our cemeteries beautiful and safe.