CEMETERY SERVICES

About Hillsdale Cemetery

Name of Licensee: Town of Petrolia
Licence #: 3280246-1
Cemetery Manager: Mandi Pearson  clerksdepartment@petrolia.ca

Cemetery & Columbarium By-Law – Hillsdale Cemetery

Hillsdale Cemetery & Columbarium Information

FEE SCHEDULE – Hillsdale Cemetery, as approved by the BAO

Bereavement Authority of Ontario
Consumer Information Guide prepared by the Registrar of the BAO.

To Purchase Plots, or Columbarium Niches

To make an appointment please contact 519-882-2350 ext. 222 or send an email to clerksdepartment@petrolia.ca to complete the purchase

All purchases that are not at need do require an appointment. The appointment takes approx. one (1) hour to complete. Payment of the purchase is due in full at the appointment.

Rights to Succession & Transfer of an existing Interment Right (Section D of By-Law)

All applications for rights to succession and transfer do require an appointment. The appointment takes approx. one (1) hour to complete.

To make an appointment please contact 519-882-2350 ext. 222 or send an email to clerksdepartment@petrolia.ca –  Application payment is due in full at the appointment.

Application for Rights to Succession:

Descendants of the original interment right holders may apply to the Cemetery Manager and request Rights to Succession be granted for interment purposes.

Once the application fee has been paid, the Corporation will complete the appropriate form “Letter of Permission Rights to Succession for interment or reservation”.

• • through genealogical information provided by the applicant to the Corporation, it is the applicants responsibility to ensure all descendants are circulated the form for signature.
  • Once completed, the original form with all signatures required is to be returned to the Clerk’s Office.
  • To be deemed complete for consideration, the returned document with original signatures must include the Statutory declaration portion completed by a solicitor or their designate

Rights to Succession are to be requested only for decedents choosing to be interred at Hillsdale Cemetery.

As genealogical verification can be difficult, the Corporation will only complete rights to succession requests when 3 or less generations of family require verification or through receipt of a legal document acknowledging the right to claim otherwise.

• • Application to claim rights to succession is completed in the most linear and direct line of succession, unless a will can be provided that states the inheritance of a grave has been passed on to a family member, named directly.
    • Nearest Degree – spouse; if the spouse has deceased
    • 1st degree – all children of the interment rights holder; if all children have deceased
    • 2nd degree – all grandchildren of the interment rights holder.

Transfer of Existing Rights :

No person shall sell interment rights without advance permission of the Cemetery Manager. Should approval be granted, the original rights holder must advise the Cemetery Manager in writing that they relinquish their rights in entirety to the named purchaser. Rights holders shall then return the original interment rights certificate to the Cemetery Manager.

• Resale of interment rights: an interment rights holder may choose to resell unused rights on the open market. The cemetery retains first right to refusal to repurchase the rights at current market value, less any contributions that were made to the Care and Maintenance Fund.
  • The Interment Rights Holder(s) who intends to sell their rights shall provide the following documents to the cemetery manager so that the manager can be satisfied with the authority and identify of the seller, confirm the ownership of the rights and provide the third-party purchaser with the required certificate etc.:
    • An interment rights certificate endorsed by the current rights holder.
    • a written statement of the number of lots that have been used in the plot and the number of lots that remain available.
    • Any other documentation in the interment rights holder(s) possession relating to the rights.

• Should the transfer be approved the third-party purchaser will be provided with the following documents by the cemetery manager:
  • An interment rights certificate endorsed by the current rights holder.
  • A copy of the cemetery’s current by-laws.
  • A copy of the cemetery’s current price list.

• The cemetery manager will require:
  • Require a statement signed by the rights Holder(s) selling the interment rights acknowledging the sale of the interment rights to the third-party purchaser.
  • Require confirmation that the person selling the interment rights is the person registered on the cemetery records and that they have the right to re-sell the Interment rights.
  • Record the date of transfer of the interment rights to the third party.
  • The name and address of the third-party purchaser(s).

• Once the endorsed certificate and all required authorization and information has been received by the cemetery manager from the rights holder(s), the cemetery manager will issue a new interment rights certificate to the third-party purchaser.

• Upon completion of the above listed procedures, and upon the issuance of the new interment rights certificate, the third-party purchaser or transferee(s) shall be considered the current interment rights holder(s) of the interment rights, and the resale or transfer of the interment rights shall be considered final in accordance with the cemetery by-laws and the FBCSA.

• The cemetery operator does not prohibit the resale of an interment rights and reserved first right to refusal to repurchase the interment rights from the rights holder(s) if the cemetery manager so desires and may negotiate a purchase price so long as the seller acknowledges being aware of the cemetery current price list and original purchase price amounts for interment rights. The cemetery is not required to repurchase interment rights, after the original thirty (30) day period has passed.

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