Cemetery regulations will be up for discussion at a public meeting Monday, Nov. 9, following complaints from some in town over new cemetery regulations drafted by the cemetery trustees and approved by the Town Council in February.

The changes to the bylaws that govern the town’s four cemeteries included limiting the number of potted plants at graves to two, allowing American flags only from 10 days before Memorial Day until just after Veterans Day and allowing “special mementos” for just one month after a burial.

The bylaws advise people to “consider all decorative items to be prohibited,” other than those exceptions. “Any disallowed items at any location are subject to removal by the custodian or Trustee at any time,” the bylaws state.

After several members of the community raised concerns about the new rules, the Town Council added it to its agenda on Oct. 14.

At that time, the council voted 7-0 to set up a meeting with cemetery trustees and interested people to draft potential changes to the policy, which would then be presented to the council.

The council also voted 7-0 to suspend the February changes to the bylaws until that meeting.

Russell Marcoux, town manager, said the trustees will be looking at rules at other cemeteries, many of which are similar to the revisions made in February, and said the changes were not made in a vacuum. Marcoux said he understood the need to be sensitive to mourners about the decorations they want to leave.

“You’ve got to be a little sympathetic to families, as long as it’s not rampant,” he said. He said in Nashua, where his parents are buried, the rules are very strict, but he still leaves items there.

“I go on each of their birthdays, for my parents, and I leave flowers there,” he said, even though he knows they will be removed.

The meeting will give the public another chance to add their input to the trustees’ process of crafting bylaws.

“Some of the stones, people just get carried away,” Marcoux said. But he said different people in different circumstances might want to express their grief in different ways. “It’s pretty hard when you lose a 10-year-old son,” he said.

The meeting is Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. at the McAllaster Room in the Bedford Library. It will be chaired by Councilor Paul Roy, facilitating chairman of the subcommittee on cemetery rules.