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What is NYC RCNY § 7-09?

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(a) All persons disturbing the quiet and good order of the cemetery by noise or other improper conduct will be compelled instantly to leave the grounds. cemetery personnel will exclude from cemetery grounds any persons it deems improper and will disperse any improper assemblages in the cemetery.

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§ 7-09 Visitors and Others.

RCNY § 7-09

(a)All persons disturbing the quiet and good order of the cemetery by noise or other improper conduct will be compelled instantly to leave the grounds. cemetery personnel will exclude from cemetery grounds any persons it deems improper and will disperse any improper assemblages in the cemetery.

(b)The cemetery gates will be open seven days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

(c)No children under the age of 18 will be admitted unless accompanied by an adult.

(d)No truck, cart or business wagon will be allowed to enter the gates, unless on business.

(e)Admittance will not be granted to persons on bicycles.

(f)All persons are strictly forbidden to pluck or carry flowers, either wild or cultivated, out of the cemetery without written permit from the office.

(g)All solicitations of any kind whatever are strictly prohibited on the cemetery grounds.

(h)No money shall be paid to any person in the employ of the cemetery in reward for any personal service or attention.

(i)Motor vehicles shall be admitted only on permit from the cemetery office. The speed limit for vehicles within the cemetery grounds is fifteen miles per hour. Vehicles shall not park or come to a full stop in front of any open grave unless they are in attendance at a funeral.

(j)Dogs brought into the cemetery must be kept on leash.

(k)No firearms or guns of any kind shall be brought into the cemetery except with the express permission of the superintendent.

(l)The superintendent reserves the right to compel any person or persons lawfully upon a plot, to temporarily withdraw from same whenever, in the judgment of the superintendent, their presence would interfere with the orderly conduct of funeral services upon a plot in the near vicinity.

(m)No person or persons, other than cemetery employees, shall be permitted to bring food or refreshments into the cemetery grounds.

(n)All workers while on the cemetery grounds shall be subject to the orders of the superintendent of the cemetery. They shall immediately cease work when he/she so orders them to do so, if, in his/her opinion, the carrying on of the work would interfere with the orderly conduct of a funeral service or an interment.

(o)Except when necessary to cross another plot to reach the plot being visited, all persons within the cemetery grounds shall use only the roads, avenues, walks and paths established and maintained by the cemetery.

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