Town Cemetery Commissioner in Hampton Town, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

Cemetery Trustees are responsible for the care and maintenance of public municipal cemeteries and for any private cemeteries the town has acquired. Cemetery trustees establish bylaws for the care, protection, preservation, and use of public cemeteries, prepare an annual budget, prepare the deeds or right to inter document for cemetery lots, and arrange for appropriate maintenance of cemeteries. Deeds for cemetery lots are signed by the Board of Selectmen, a right to inter any document may be signed by the cemetery trustees. Cemetery Trustees to not hold the principal of donated cemetery and perpetual care trust funds; this responsibility is given to the Trustees of Trust Funds. Cemetery Trustees do prepare vouchers to be submitted to the Trustees of Trust Funds for reimbursement of cemetery care for perpetual care lots and it is therefore important for Cemetery Trustees to work closely with the TTFs. Cemetery Trustees can hire a sexton to oversee the care and management of the cemeteries. The sexton cannot be one of the cemetery trustees.