Cemetary management
In accordance with the laws we administer and maintain public burial grounds. Our services encompass:
- interment,
- exhumation of human remains,
- record keeping of burial sites,
- maintenance of green spaces at cemeteries etc.
Cemetery management also involves:
- grave digging including backfilling, decoration of graves prior to a funeral service , tomb opening, cooperation with stonemason companies when removing/replacing grave coversetc.,
- decision making regarding human remains interment according to the legislation in force and in compliance with the approved plans of the burial grounds, assistance of a social worker – a gravedigger at a burial and when placing a body or remains into a grave or tomb,
- handling of both decomposed and undecomposed human remains,
- cooperation with a regional health officer during exhumation, and with a prosecutor during criminal procedures,
- burial grounds operation ensuring exhumation without disrupting public order and preventing infection transmission,
- interring urns, scattering of ashes in the crematorium grounds, or if required, dignified storage of urns,
- mandatory record keeping regarding the burial grounds management in compliance with Funeral Services Act,
- record keeping of burial sites declared a cultural monument in compliance with Cultural Heritage Act, and record keeping of war graves and headstones,
- allocation of new burial sites to applicants, billing for the lease of burial sites, taking over a burial site from a leaseholder after lease termination,
- photographic documentation of every burial site including burial facilities.
Burial grounds administration and maintenance:
- operation of a funeral home and coordination of funeral services,
- acceptance of human remains from the funeral provider prior to the funeral ceremony,
- personal participation of the Cemetery Management Office personnel in ushering the bereaved into the mourning hall,
- open casket service on request of the bereaved (on the catafalque or elsewhere),
- flower decoration of the catafalque in the mourning hall on request of the bereaved and the funeral provider,
- music during funeral ceremony on request and in cooperation with funeral orators,
- lowering the coffin into the catafalque at the end of the funeral ceremony,
- cleaning of the mourning hall and other facilities,
- checking and operation of the cooling facility, lifting and lowering device of the catafalque,
- regular inspection of all technological facilities of the mourning hall and the surrounding areas,
- maintenance of the headstones and burial sites with a special status, and the crematorium grounds for scattering ashes
- administration and maintenance of burial grounds including cemetery roads,
- winter maintenance of cemetery roads,
- maintenance of buildings, fences, and disposal of cemetery waste,
- maintenance of green spaces,
- administration of maintained buildings and premises,
- administration of the information system for burial grounds leaseholders and visitors.
