The following Covenants and Restrictions have been recorded and govern all uses of Six Oaks Cemetery and the respective rights of the Sea Pines Cemetery Association and plot owners.

1. The owner of a right of interment shall be the owner of record on the books of Sea Pines Cemetery Association, hereinafter sometimes called the Corporation, and shall be a sole individual. The right of interment shall belong to the owner of record and to those other persons legally entitled thereto in accordance with these Covenants.

2. Burials or interments may not be made, nor improvements made, on sites which have not been fully paid for, except by special written permission of the Corporation.

3. All rights of interment are conveyed subject to an option to purchase existing and reserved in favor of the Corporation which option may be exercised if the owners or their successors in title offer said right or rights of interment for sale. If the owners desire to sell said right or rights of interment, they shall give the Corporation written notice.

The Corporation shall have 30 days from the receipt of said notice to purchase said rights of interment from the owners at the original purchase price minus the 10% fee paid to the Perpetual Care Maintenance Fund, and the 5% management fee. If the owners fail to give the Corporation written notice of its election to exercise said option to purchase, they shall be obligated to convey said right or rights of interment to the Corporation upon tender of the original purchase price.

4. No sale, gift, devise, transfer or assignment of the rights in a burial site or niche shall be valid until the Corporation has received notification in writing thereof and has consented thereto by recording the same on its books.

5. The Corporation reserves in particular, but not by way of limitation, the right to refuse its consent to a sale, gift, devise, transfer or assignment for any reason which it considers sufficient. If the Corporation does not consent, it may exercise an option to repurchase as provided above.

6. Every instrument, adjudication or decree affecting the rights in a site or niche must be filed with the Corporation. Until receipt of such filing and recordation on the books of the Corporation, the Corporation may rely upon its own records of ownership for all purposes.

7. The Corporation reserves the right to use all the rights of internment which have not been sold for any purposes whatsoever consistent with the operation, care and maintenance of a Cemetery, including interment of the dead.

8. The Corporation reserves to itself, and to those lawfully entitled, a perpetual right of ingress and egress over individual sites for the purpose of passing to and from other sites.

9. No easement or right-of-way is granted to the owner of a right of interment in any road, drive, alley or walkway within the Cemetery. Roads, drives, alleys and walkways may be used as means of access to the Cemetery, its building or lots, but only as long as the Corporation devotes them to that purpose.

10. Plans of an owner for improving a site in which he has burial rights, in any way, including plans for the installation of monuments, markers, gravestones, trees, shrubs, or flower beds, must be submitted in writing to the Corporation for approval. Approval may be denied on aesthetic grounds or any other grounds which in the sole judgement of the Corporation seems sufficient.

11. The Corporation has the authority to remove without notice, all improvements made on cemetery sites without its consent and all improvements which in spite of reasonable care and maintenance have deteriorated beyond reasonable repair because of the elements or other causes. It further has authority to remove all flowers, wreaths and other decorative arrangements, and all trees, shrubs, plants, roots, branches and limbs, from sites as soon as they become unsightly, dangerous, detrimental or diseased, or when they do not conform to the standards maintained in the Cemetery. Cut flowers may be placed on a site at any time, but the cost of removal, if any, shall be paid by the owner or the person placing the flowers on the site. The use of artificial flowers is not allowed.

12. The Corporation reserves the right, at its option, to charge a reasonable rate to monument companies for any installation of monuments, markers, gravestones, or other such improvements for owners of rights of interment.

13. The Corporation reserves the right to prevent the removal of any trees, shrubs, plants, or herbage of any kind whatsoever from a site unless its permission is given.

14. The Corporation has the right at any time to refuse admission to the Cemetery property any person or persons deemed objectionable to the best interests of the Cemetery or whose behavior is unbecoming a sacred place.

15. The following activities are prohibited anywhere within the Cemetery: loud or boisterous talking; idling or loafing; bringing and consuming lunches or refreshments, unless the event is approved by the Cemetery; bringing and consuming alcoholic beverages; peddling or soliciting the sale of any commodity; placing signs, notices or advertisements of any kind; bringing or using firearms, except in connection with a military funeral or memorial service; bringing chairs or the like, except during funerals; or littering the grounds with paper, trash or other refuse; the defacement, destruction or desecration of graves, gravestones, monuments or the Cemetery grounds.

16. No Cemetery site shall be used for any purpose other than the burial of the remains of the human dead.

17. All interments, disinterments and removals must be made at the time, in the manner, upon the conditions, and upon the charges fixed by the Corporation.

18. Twenty-four hours notice to the Corporation prior to any interment and at least one week’s notice prior to any disinterment or removal is required.

19. When an interment is to be made in a site, the location of the interment shall be designated by written notice to the Corporation by the owner of the right of interment in the site or his representative. Should the Corporation not receive timely notice of such designation, the Corporation reserves the right to decide upon the location so as not to delay the funeral.

20. Not more than one body shall be interred in one grave space, except (a) a parent and infant; (b) two infants; (c) two urns containing the remains of two bodies. A grave containing a body shall not be reopened for an additional interment, except in the case of two urns. In the case of two adult cremains, the ownership deed must directly specify that the plot will ultimately contain two urns. The deed must also indicate that Six Oaks Cemetery received appropriate payment for the second interment.

21. Interments in a site shall not be greater than the number permitted by these Rules and Regulations and by the layout and location of interment spaces according to the plat and other records on file at the offices of the Corporation.

22. All burials must be made in waterproof outside containers or vaults constructed of natural stone, metal or reinforced concrete or specifications established by the Corporation. The Corporation reserves the right, at its option, to install all such containers by its own employees and to make a reasonable charge therefor.

23. The Corporation without the consent of the owners of the rights of interment may modify these Covenants and establish and modify Rules and Regulations for the cemetery from time to time as it considers necessary to properly maintain and operate the Cemetery.

24. The Corporation is hereby empowered to enforce all Rules and Regulations and to exclude from the Cemetery any persons violating them. The Corporation shall have charge of the grounds and buildings including the conduct of funerals, traffic, workmen and owners.