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METING: GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
DATE: SEPTEMBER 17, 1990
REPORT #: CD-26-90 FILE #:
SUBJECT: CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF THE BIBLE CHRISTIAN
CEMETERY - KING STREET, HAMPTON.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and
Administration Committee recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report CD-26-90 be received;
2 . THAT the Bible Christian Cemetery located on King Street in
the Hamlet of Hampton, be added to the Town of Newcastle's
Inventory of Abandoned Cemeteries;
3 . THAT the Darlington Cemetery Board be requested to assume the
responsibility for the future maintenance of the abandoned
cemetery;
4 . THAT the Darlington Cemetery Board be authorized to undertake
any remedial works required to bring the cemetery lands into
conformity with standard levels of maintenance appropriate to
such lands;
5. THAT Council enact the necessary by-law to add the lands to
the Town's Abandoned Cemetery Inventory; and
6 . THAT the by-law attached to Report CD-26-90 be approved and
a copy forwarded to the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial
Relations for information.
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Report CD-26-90 - 2 - September 17, 1990
BACKGROUND AND COMMENT:
At a meeting held on September 10, 1990, Council received a request
from the Chairperson of the Hampton Cemetery Board for the
Trusteeship of the Bible Christian Cemetery to be relinquished to
the Town of Newcastle. Maintenance of the grounds has become a
financial burden to the Board and the condition of the older
monuments needs to be addressed. Restoration operations will be
costly and beyond the means of the Board.
Section 62 of the Cemeteries Act states that the Council of a local
municipality shall maintain a cemetery where an owner is unable to
maintain it and the municipality shall be deemed to be the owner
of the cemetery. Although Section 62 does not necessitate the
passage of a by-law, it is advisable that a by-law be passed as
recognition of the municipality's responsibility in the matter.
It is, therefore, recommended that the Town accept responsibility
of maintenance of the Bible Christian Cemetery and that the
necessary by-law be passed.
Respectfully submitted Recommended for Presentation
to Committee
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Patti }'�. Ba�2 ie, A.M.C.T. L ren11nistrative Kotseff, M.C. I.P.
Tow ;lerk Chief Officer
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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
BY-LAW 90-
being a by-law to amend By-law 77-25,
"a by-law regarding the maintenance,
management, regulation and control of
certain cemeteries in the Town of
Newcastle, as amended"
WHEREAS Section 62 of the Cemeteries Act, R.S.O. 1980, provides
that:
where the owner of a cemetery cannot be found or is
unknown or is unable to maintain it, the Council of the
local municipality in which the cemetery is situate,
shall maintain it and the corporation of the local
municipality shall, for the purposes of this Act, be
deemed to be the owner of the cemetery";
AND WHEREAS the Hampton Cemetery Board has requested that their
trusteeship of the Bible Christian Cemetery, located on King
Street, Hampton, be relinquished to the Town of Newcastle;
NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF
NEWCASTLE HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. THAT Schedule "A" to By-law 77-25, as amended, of the
Corporation of the Town of Newcastle, is further amended, and
the following abandoned cemetery added to the inventory of
abandoned cemeteries listed therein and situate in, and under
the management and control of the Corporation of the Town of
Newcastle;
Bible Christian Cemetery
Part Lot 19, Concession 6,
Former Township of Darlington,
Now in the Town of Newcastle
By-law read a first and second time this 24th day of September 1990
By-law read a third time and finally passed this 24th day of
September 1990
MAYOR
CLERK
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