Interment Rights Information

  1. Interments are subject to approval by authorized persons. Interment is defined as the disposition of human remains by inurnment, entombment, or burial.
  2. Interments are considered permanent by the Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association.
  3. It is the interment-rights owner’s responsibility to read and follow all cemetery rules.
  4. The EMCA will not serve as broker or agent to any rights resale transactions or price negotiations. Before any resales, the sellers must notify the EMCA of their intentions. To be valid, the transfer of interment rights must be reported to the EMCA and document change fees paid in full.
  5. Interment-rights owners are subject to all terms and conditions of their original Purchase Agreements, in addition to the policies and conditions herein.
  6. All services, such as interments, grave marker and plaque placement, and large memorial gatherings, are subject to service fees, due prior to or at the time of service, and must be approved by and coordinated with EMCA staff.
  7. The disinterment of remains is permitted only with the approval of those persons having legal authorization to do so and when ordered by the appropriate court.
  8. The EMCA permits shroud and natural burials on the cemetery grounds.
  9. Anyone choosing a full-body burial in the cemetery must engage a licensed mortuary or funeral home to open and close the grave.
  10. Only laborers employed by licensed mortuaries and approved by the EMCA may dig full-size graves.
  11. All mortuary and funeral home employees and grave marker installers are subject to the control and direction of EMCA personnel and rules.
  12. Only EMCA staff may dig graves for cremated and composted remains.
  13. Grave capacities and limits:
    • A single full-sized casket plot permits the burial of one (1) casket or shroud and the burial of up to two (2) urns.
    • Plots within the Ahavas Torah sections permit one casket or shroud burial only.
    • A full-sized cremated remains plot allows for the burial of up to three (3) urns.
  14. A half-sized cremated remains plot allows for the burial of up to two (2) urns.
  15. Owners of interment rights in the Temple Beth Israel and Ahavas Torah sections must also follow the burial policies of their synagogues.
  16. Grave liners are optional in the cemetery but are not permitted within the Temple Beth Israel or Ahavas Torah sections. The EMCA does not provide grave liners.