“And what of the excerpt above that said he asked and they said it was okay? How can he be violating “rules” if they told him he could do it absent a complaint?”
City (owner of cemetery) employee is on record warning him about placing boxes and telling him legal action would be coming if he continued.
You are dodging the question. Did the city employee take it upon himself to object, or is he doing so at the urging of the father?