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Can cemetery owners keep company I choose from setting marker? Company is licensed/bonded. What's the law?
We bought my parents' cemetery plots in 1980. Daddy was buried that year. The cemetery has since changed ownership. Mama was buried last year. I have finally decided on the marker I want. The cost includes the setting fee. The cemetery is now telling me that they have a policy that only they can set markers in their cemetery, and that I will need to pay them close to $300 to do it. The monument company I bought the marker from is licensed and bonded. They said that the cemetery owner has no legal right to keep them from setting if I want them to do it. I would prefer the monument company set it. This is in Texas. Who knows the answer to this?
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- merillo5Lv 41 decade agoFavorite Answer
The contract you signed when you bought the plot is the one I would go by. Where you informed in writing of any new provisions on the new policy when it was instated by the new owners? Who legally owns the plot now ? Contact an attorney or legal aid in your area. Some questions can be answered over the phone. Good luck.
- 1 decade ago
When you bring a bottle of wine to a restaurant, they charge you a corkage fee. A fee to simply open the bottle of wine. That is because if they let people bring in wine, the would soon lose a lot of money selling wine.
The same applies to a cemetery. They do not do the stones, but they can charge you for setting them up. That is one place they get money to maintain the cemetery. They do the same for opening and closing of grave sites. They have to have some means of ensuring income so they can maintain the cemetery.
You are "fighting city hall" on this. Buy the stone, let the cemetery set it. If the monument company has a problem with the rule, it is up to them, not you to fight it out with the cemetery.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Cemetery owners are known for their shoddy work..
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/2000/ii000436.html
My advice is to contact the Better Business Bureau and ask them..