Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

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   (1)   The Corporation shall appoint an officer and shall fix his or her salary to execute the orders of the Cemetery Committee and to be specially charged with the carrying out and enforcement of the regulations for the control and management of the Cemetery.

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   (2)   The officer shall be called the Keeper of the Cemetery.

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   (3)   He or she shall be in attendance thereat daily throughout the year from 7:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m., or later, if required for purposes of interment, or in the event of the Cemetery Committee giving special permission for burials to take place at other hours, should they think fit.

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   (4)   He or she shall receive and obey all orders from the Cemetery Committee through the Town Clerk or from any person appointed by them for that purpose for the opening of graves.

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   (5)   He or she shall be furnished with a plan or chart of the Cemetery, corresponding exactly with that in the office of the Head Constable, and shall upon receiving instructions from him or her to open a grave see that he or she understands exactly the location of the grave to be opened and give the necessary orders to have the grave dug in the proper place ready for the reception of the body at the time stated for the interment.

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   (6)   He or she shall keep a register into which he or she shall, prior to the arrival of the body at the Cemetery, enter all the particulars required to be transmitted to him or her by the Head Constable, and he or she shall see that every such entry is signed by at least 2 witnesses of the interment.

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   (7)   He or she shall allow free access to all books, plans, papers or property belonging to the Corporation, to all persons authorised by the Cemetery Committee to examine the same, and he or she shall furnish to all or any person or persons who may require them and who may apply to him or her for that purpose certified extracts from the books, and shall be allowed to charge twenty-four cents for each such extract to the person or persons requiring the same, to be paid to him or her for his or her own use.

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   (8)   He or she shall be present at all funerals and shall see that graves are of the required width and depth, that coffins are properly interred, and that graves are efficiently filled up.

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   (9)   He or she is responsible for cleaning and keeping clean and in good order the Cemetery walks and avenues as also the enclosures thereof and shall supervise the planting and maintenance of all trees, shrubs, and plants which the Cemetery Committee may authorise to be planted in the Cemetery.

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   (10)   He or she shall have charge of all buildings and property of every description at the Cemetery whether belonging to or in the custody of the Castries Corporation, and shall be held accountable for any damage to or loss of the same.

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   (11)   He or she shall see that all visitors to the Cemetery comport themselves with decorum and are decently clothed.

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   (12)   He or she shall regulate the movements of hearses, carriages, and funeral processions inside the Cemetery.

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   (13)   He or she shall supervise the work of all labourers employed in any capacity whatsoever at the Cemetery by order of the Cemetery Committee; he or she is responsible for the proper performance of their work, and he or she shall make up pay lists detailing the nature of the work done by each such labourer, the number of days he or she has been employed, and the rate of pay per day to which he or she is entitled, and shall send in such list duly certified to the Town Clerk not later than noon on Friday in each week.

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   (14)   He or she shall generally carry out all instructions which he or she may receive from the Cemetery Committee through the Town Clerk.