Notice: Amendments to Cemeteries By-law

Sault Ste. Marie City Council passed amendments to Cemeteries By-law 2012-129 on November 15, 2021. The by-law amendments will become effective once approved by the Registrar, Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act, 2002 (Bereavement Authority of Ontario).
 

Copies of the by-law are available from the office of the City Clerk, Level 4, Civic Centre, 99 Foster Drive, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, P6A 5X6 and on the municipal website at saultstemarie.ca/cemeterynotice.
 

By-law amendments include:

• Specific wording to the effect that the City does not buy back interment rights

• Number of cremated remains permitted in a niche

• No disinterments from a mausoleum crypt will be permitted

• A new section regarding Muslim burials

• Miscellaneous wording regarding wooden crosses, adornments on a mausoleum crypt and the prohibition of aggregates in flowers beds

• Removal of restrictions regarding depth of markers in the ground and to specify dimensions for concrete pads for markers

Submissions relating to the by-law amendments may be made to:

City Clerk

Corporation of the City of Sault Ste. Marie

Level 4, Civic Centre

99 Foster Drive

Sault Ste. Marie, ON  P6A 5X6

cityclerk@cityssm.on.ca

Cemetery Registrar

Ministry of Consumer Services

Consumer Protection Branch

5775 Yonge Street, Suite 1500

Toronto, ON  M7A 2E5

1.844.493.6356

 

Dated at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario this 15th day of November 2021.

 

For more information please contact:

 

Rachel Tyczinski, City Clerk

City of Sault Ste. Marie

Phone: 705-759-5391   Email: r.tyczinski@cityssm.on.ca