The grounds of Riverview Cemetery are sacredly devoted to the interment of the dead and provide a setting of quiet reflection for the living, and therefore, conduct should be governed accordingly. Persons are prohibited from:

- Taking any items, not their own;

- Defacing or damaging structures, memorials, monuments, headstones, grave markers, and private mausoleums;

- Injuring trees, shrubs, flowers, plants or turfs;

- Feeding, disturbing or harming wildlife;

- Bringing pets onto cemetery grounds unless confined in a vehicle or servicing a person with a disability;

- Possessing alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs;

- Using loud or profane language or in any way disturbing the tranquility of the cemetery;

- Possessing firearms or weapons of any type except for honor guards comprised of military or law enforcement personnel;

- Soliciting, peddling or advertising of any form; and

- Conducting demonstrations of any kind that is not part of a funeral, memorial service or ceremony.

The right to use vehicles in Riverview Cemetery is authorized exclusively for the purpose of visiting interment sites, attending funeral services or conducting cemetery business. Only street legal vehicles are allowed and must not be operated in excess of ten (10) miles per hour. All vehicles must be attended and remain on designated roadways within the cemetery with the exception of cemetery personnel or contractors performing work within the cemetery. All other forms of transportation (bikes, all-terrain vehicles, go-carts, skateboards, sleds, snowmobiles, etc.) may not be used on cemetery grounds except with the approval of the cemetery.

To maintain consistency and beauty as well as ensuring maintenance and upkeep, Riverview Cemetery reserves the right to regulate the decoration of burial spaces, crypts, niches and memorials. The cemetery has the right to remove any object that violates its decorating policy, whose appearance becomes unsightly or condition warrants removal. The cemetery, at its discretion and without notice, will remove any decorations which may create a safety hazard or cause additional maintenance burdens. The cemetery will not be liable for any flowers or decorations which have been removed, stolen or damaged.

Decorations not allowed include, but are not limited to, the following: shepherd’s hooks, glass containers, lights, chimes, statues, figurines, pin-wheels, balloons, coping, curbing, rocks, fencing, hedging, grave mounds, borders and enclosures. No decorations of any type are permitted in trees or cemetery plantings. Nothing herein shall restrict the design of permanent monuments or prohibit appurtenances required for the protection of monuments or lots.

Cemetery Grounds
Flowers are permitted year-round if in permanent fixtures or mounted to the headstone or foundation. Flowers or decorations, if not in a permanent fixture or mounted, may be placed temporarily on grave sites on Memorial Day and Veterans Day within two (2) weeks of the holiday and are subject to removal by the cemetery after two (2) weeks of the holiday. Winter decorations, wreaths and grave blankets are allowed from December 1 through January 31 after which time they are subject to removal by the cemetery.

Mausoleum
A single, standard flower bracket and vase is allowed on each crypt face which must be obtained from and installed by the cemetery. No attachments of any kind are permitted to be taped, glued or affixed to the crypt face. Flowers, containers, individual memorabilia or other decorative items may not be placed on the chapel mausoleum floor or sidewalks in front of the crypts.

Columbarium
Except at the time of interment, the Riverview Cemetery columbarium does not allow flowers, plants, wreaths or other ornamentation of any kind to be placed within the columbarium setting, attached to the columbarium or on the sidewalk in front of the niches.

Flags may be placed on burial spaces on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Flag Day and Veterans Day within one (1) week of the holiday and flags are subject to removal by the cemetery after one (1) week of the holiday. Flags may not be affixed to niches or crypts located in the columbarium, chapel mausoleum and garden mausoleum.

Riverview Cemetery has authority over the planting of all trees, shrubs, flowers, plants and grass ornamentation in the cemetery and only cemetery personnel are allowed to do plantings. It is the cemetery’s discretion as to what can be planted and where it can be planted. Plantings of any kind on burial spaces is not permitted. Any tree, bench or other item donated to or planted in the cemetery becomes the property of Riverview Cemetery and shall be subject to these rules and regulations.

Any planting not approved by Riverview Cemetery may be removed without notice to the party responsible for the planting. In the sole discretion of the cemetery, if any tree, shrub, bush, plant or flower growing on any burial spaces shall become intrusive or detrimental to adjacent burial spaces, walkways or roads or in any way interfere with the general design of the cemetery, the planting will be removed without notice and Riverview Cemetery will not be responsible.

Riverview Cemetery assumes responsibility for maintaining cemetery grounds only. No person, other than employees of Riverview Cemetery, is allowed to perform any work within the cemetery without permission from the cemetery. Maintenance of memorials, monuments, headstones, grave markers and private mausoleums is the sole responsibility of the owner(s).

Riverview Cemetery has the right to enter upon or use any adjoining burial spaces to carry out its duties as to interments and erection of headstones, grave markers, private mausoleums, memorials or monuments without prior notice to the burial space owner. The cemetery reserves the right to remove any item that conflicts with these rules and regulations or interferes with the maintenance and upkeep of cemetery grounds. Riverview Cemetery is not responsible for any damage due to circumstances beyond its control or caused by any individual not in the employment of the cemetery.

For the benefit of all owners of interment rights, ease of maintenance and establishing a uniform beauty, Riverview Cemetery maintains complete control and management of the land, buildings, improvements and development within the cemetery and entitled to regulate decorations. The cemetery reserves the right, at any time, with or without notice to interment right owners, to adopt new rules and regulations, amend or repeal any of these rules and regulations. Special cases may arise in which the literal enforcement of the rule or regulation may impose unnecessary hardship. Riverview Cemetery, therefore, reserves the right, without notice, to make exceptions, suspensions or modifications in any of these rules and regulations when, in its judgment, the same appear advisable, and such temporary exceptions, suspensions or modifications shall in no way be construed as affecting its general application.