§ 2.05.04. Family cemetery.

Throughout the county there are family burial plots outside of a commercial or government-owned cemetery. The indiscriminate burial of human remains throughout the county must be discouraged due to the difficulty of ensuring the longterm preservation and dignity of the burial site. A "family cemetery" is hereby defined as a plot or parcel of land, other than a commercial or government owned cemetery, or a cemetery licensed under F.S. ch. 497, upon which is buried or interred human remains as of the date of the adoption of this Code and for which there has been a deed restriction recorded in the official records of Okeechobee County identifying the owner and property designated as the family cemetery. The deed restriction shall further prohibit development on the site unless the human remains are relocated pursuant to law. Failure to record the deed restriction required by this section within one year of the effective date of this Code, or conveyance of the site to anyone not related by blood or marriage to the grantor, shall render the family cemetery nonconforming and thereafter no further human remains shall be buried or interred on the site. Only those related by blood or marriage to the owners described in the deed restriction may be buried or interred on the site. No new family cemeteries shall be established. No human remains shall be buried or interred in other than a family cemetery or a cemetery permitted pursuant to section 7.09.02D of this Code.