Camrose Valleyview Cemetery
Important Regulations

Camrose Valleyview Cemetery is owned and operated by the City of Camrose on behalf of its citizens. The general maintenance and all interment activities are carried out by employees of the Leisure Services Department.

A plan of the Cemetery showing all grave locations is open for inspection between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at Leisure Services Department every day except Saturday, Sundays and Statutory Holidays and at the Cemetery office during the summer season.

It is the aim of the Department to make our Cemetery a quiet resting place for loved ones who have passed on. The properties are maintained in a manner indicative of preserving and increasing their natural attractiveness.

Excerpts from the by-law of the City of Camrose governing the Camrose Valleyview Cemetery:

1. Rules and Regulations made from time to time by City Council shall be binding upon plot owners and upon all other persons to whom they apply.
2. Vehicle Traffic speed limit is 20 kilometres per hour and shall be restricted to roadways only.
3. Flowers and similar decorations should be placed in an approved container.
4. Grave Decorations must not include lawn ornaments or any items made of glass or china.
5. Flowers and Potted Plants shall not be placed on the turf area of graves from May 1^st to October 1^st, except for a period following:
   a) Decoration Day
   b) An interment
6. Ash Interments are permitted only after traditional interments have occurred or when no traditional interments will occur. Ash interments shall be permitted in Part I of a grave only prior to the installation of a monument and are not permitted under the continuous monument foundation.
7. Cemetery Plots shall be used only for the burial of human remains.
8. Monuments or Monument Foundations shall not be erected in the Cemetery unless an application for a permit has been submitted and approved by the Parks Director.
9. No monument, including the Monument Foundation shall exceed the maximum dimensions as stated within the By-law.
10. All approved Monument Permits are covered by Perpetual Care which does not include any responsibility for repair and maintenance of the monument or foundation.
11. Monuments are placed in the Cemetery at the owner's risk and the City of Camrose assumes no responsibility for damage or loss due to vandalism, etc. "All risk" coverage (theft, vandalism, malicious damage and other extended coverage) may be available through an Insurance Agent.
12. No Fence, Railing, Coping, Earthmound, Plantings or any type or memorial shall be placed on any burial plot except for a monument placed in accordance with the provisions of this By-law.
13. No Pets or Animals are permitted in the Cemetery.
14. Sacred Grounds - A Cemetery is a sacred place. Quiet and reverence must be observed by everyone and the Cemetery reserves the right to refuse admission at any time.

See our frequently requested bylaws page for the bylaw.

For more information contact the City of Camrose Leisure Services Department 672-9195.

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