Shurugwi City Council (Cemeteries) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws govern burials in the Shurugwi council's cemeteries: permission for burial, reservation, exclusive rights of burial, burial times, grave depth, exhumation, memorial works, buildings in cemeteries, opening hours and other restrictions.

Fees differ by cemetery, by day and by the status of the deceased. At Makusha cemetery an adult burial costs US$50 on a weekday, US$60 at weekends and public holidays, US$80 for non-residents and US$100 for non-Zimbabweans; children cost US$25, US$30, US$40 and US$50 respectively. At Railway Block cemetery the equivalent adult figures are US$60, US$70, US$100 and US$150, with children at US$30, US$35, US$50 and US$75.

Across all areas, a tombstone installation application costs US$36,44, as does an application to erect memorial works or to exhume. Grave reservation and its renewal cost US$200 — but are free for people aged 65 and over — with an annual fee of US$10 for a reserved grave. An exclusive right of burial costs US$100, as do special burial times. Grave panels and lined graves are charged at cost recovery.

Penalties are US$250 each for removing a body or coffin from a grave, exhuming without approval, erecting a building in a cemetery without consent and obstructing a designated officer; US$100 for unauthorised burial and for placing more than two bodies in one grave; US$50 for unauthorised entry and for hewing or dressing stone without written permission; and US$20 for entering other than through designated points, advertising, conveying goods, climbing on memorials, placing unapproved floral tributes, planting a tree on a grave and bringing in a vehicle without approval.

Note the instrument is headed "Shurugwi City Council" although Shurugwi is a town council, and it names the same council as the other by-laws gazetted alongside it.