BELGRADE — Residents voted 758 to 231 on Tuesday to amend the Belgrade Cemetery Ordinance to allow nonresidents to be buried in Pine Grove Cemetery.
Voters approved the ordinance change at Town Meeting in March. Scott Damren, town sexton, said the wording wasn’t exactly right, so voters had to vote again on Tuesday.
The proposed amendments will adopt changes to allow taxpaying nonresidents to buy cemetery lots provided they:
• were born in the community;
• have blood relatives either living in the community or buried in the cemetery; or
• own and have paid property taxes on property in town for at least 20 years.
Voters also adopted a “Pace Ordinance” to provide residents access to efficiency loans.
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