Lakeside Cemetery price list
- Grave size is 4' x 8'
- Lots may be purchased with one or multiple graves
Grave price
$500 each
Burial opening prices
- Adult: $500
- Infants: $325
- Cremation: $325
*An additional fee of $150 will be charged for Saturday, Sunday or Holiday burials.
Headstone or footstone preparations
- 2 ft base: $100
- 3 ft base: $150
- 4 ft base: $200
Three Classes of Cemeteries Recognized by NYS Town Law § 291
The town board is under a duty to care for most cemeteries located in the town except those presently
controlled by an existing board or corporate body (1967 Opinion of the State Comptroller file #706). However,
a “town may not care for a cemetery which is either a private cemetery or a cemetery control of which is
vested in trustees or other corporate body” (1946 Opinion of the State Comptroller file #353). There is some
complexity to this exemption, and organizational and management documents as well as public records for
the cemetery entity should be consulted. State law requires that title to abandoned public cemeteries reverts
to the town in which the cemetery is located and that the town to which title has so reverted must maintain
the cemetery. For the complete text for this section of state law, see APPENDIX A.
1st class cemetery – title to which has been vested to town by virtue of its use by town residents for 14 years.
The requirements for fencing/mowing are that a maintained fence encircling the cemetery is required, and
must be mowed at least three times per year.