A. Interment Rights: All lots, plots, and burial spaces conveyed heretofore or hereafter shall be presumed to be sold and separate property of the person or persons named as grantee in the intercurrent of conveyance subject to these rules, regulations, and restrictions; provided however, that the husband or wife shall have a vested right of interment of his or her body in any burial plot or interments space conveyed ta the other, which right shall continue as long as he or she remain the husband or ,me of the plot owner or shall be his or her wife or husband at the time of such plot owner's demise, and no conveyance or other action shall be valid, without the _joinder thereon or written rights of interment; provided however, that a final decree of divorce between them shall tennantite such vested rights of interment unless it shall be otherwise provided by such decree of divorce.


B. Joint Tenants: In all conveyances to two or more persons as joint tenant, each shall have a vested right to interment of his or her remains in the plot so conveyed. Upon the death of a joint tenant, right and title in and to the burial plot so held immediately vests in the survivor or survivors, subject to the vested rights to incurrent for the remains of the deceased joint tenant owner. This vested right of interment of the remains of a joint tenant may be waived and shall be terminated upon the internment of such remains elsewhere. 


C. Right of Descent: lf  no interment has been made in a plot which has been transferred by deed or other instrument to an individual by the Company or its predecessors, or if all the bodies have been lawfully removed therefrom, in the absence of specific disposition there of by the owners last will and testament, the whole of said plot, except the one grave space which must be reserved to the surviving husband or wife of the owner, shall upon the death of such owner, descent in regular line of succession to the heirs at law of the owner.


D. Official Records: The official records of plot owners shall be maintained by the Company at its designated office, and each plot owner shall be registered by name and address. Such registration shall be the final governing record in determination of plot ownership. All persons dealing with plots of said cemetery shall be on notice of the records maintained by the Company at its office near Hillsboro, Texas.


E Inalienability by Interment: All plots, the use of which has been conveyed by deed or certificate of ownership as a separate plot, are indivisible except with the consent of the cemetery management, or as provided by law. 

Whenever an interment of the remains of a member or a relative of a member of the family of the record owner or of the remains of the record owner is made in a plot transferred by deed or certificate of ownership to an individual owner and the owner dies without making disposition of the plot either in his will by a specific devise, or by a written declaration filed and recorded in the office of the Company, the plot thereby becomes inalienable and shall be held as the family plot of the owner. 

In the family plot, one grave, niche, or crypt may be used for the owner's internment; one for the owner's surviving spouse, if any, who by law has a vested right of interment in it and in those remaining, if any, the parents and children of the deceased owner in order of death may be interred without the consent of any person claiming any interest in the plot. 

If no parent or child survives, the right of interment goes in the order of death first to the spouse of any child of the record owner, and second in the order of death to the next heirs at Iaw of the owner or the spouse of any heir at law. 

Any surviving spouse, parent, child, or heir having a right of internment in a family plot any waive such right in favor of any other relative or spouse of a relative of the deceased owner, and upon such waiver the remains of the person in whose favor the waiver is trade may be interred in the plot. 


F. Change of Address: It shall be the duty of each and every plot owner to keep the Company fully inform as to his or her trailing address, and to notify said association as to any changes thereof: notice sent to any plot owner at the last registered address on file in the office of the Company shall be considered sufficient and proper legal notice.


G. Right to Ingress and Egress Reserved: The Company reserves to itself, and to those lawful within the cemetery, a perpetual right of ingress and egress over plots forth passage to and from other plots. 




RULE 11- DECORATION


A. Flower Receptacles: No flower receptacles may be placed on any plot, unless of metal of approved size and design or attached to the grave mark.er and set so as to lower wholly beneath the level of the lawn when not in use. Such receptacles may be purchased from and placed by the Company. The Company shall have the authority to remove all floral designs, flowers, weeds, trees, shrubs, plants, and herbage of any kind from the gardens as soon as, in the judgment of the superintendent, they become unsightly, dangerous, detrimental, diseased, or when they do not conform to the standard maintained. The Company shall not be liable for floral pieces, baskets, or frames in which, or to which, such floral pieces were attached, beyond the acceptance of such floral pieces for funeral services held in the gardens. The Company reserves the right to regulate the m:thods of decorating plots so that a uniform beauty may be maintained. The Company reserves the right to prevent the removal of any flower, floral design, trees, shrubs, plants, or herbage of any kind, unless the superintendent gives his consent.

B. Certain Ornaments Prohibited: The placing of boxes, shells, toys, metal designs, ornaments, chairs, settees, vases, glass, wood, or iron cases, and similar articles upon plots, walks, casements, or roads shall not be permitted and if so placed, the Company reserves the right to remove the satire.

C. Placement of Wreaths, Pot Plants, and Baskets: Wreaths, pot plants, and baskets are permitted only on Valentines Day, Easter, Mother's Day, Fathers Day, and Memorial Day. Placement may be made during the week before and will be removed by the Cemetery on the 5th day following the occasion and disposed.

D. Christmas Wreaths and Winter Graw Decorations: Christmas wreaths and winter grave decorations may be placed anytime after December 1st. They will be removed by the Cemetery during the fourth week of January and disposed.