Shepparton Public Cemetery Trust secretary Joanne Crowe said the new lawn was ready to host burials for the public with people able to pre-purchase graves there.
“Now that restrictions have been lifted, people can pre-select graves in the new lawn section until further notice,” she said.
“Funerals are an essential service, so people can meet me or the sexton, walk through and see which grave they’d like.”
Premier Daniel Andrews announced that from 11.59 pm Tuesday night, 20 people would be able to attend indoor funerals, with 30 allowed at outdoor funerals.
While Mrs Crowe said the lawn cemetery was ready for burials now, there was still "aesthetic" groundwork to be done, including the installation of a sprinkler system, a new roadway and other utilities.
“Hopefully within the next three months everything should be completed,” she said.
Previously, Shepparton Public Cemetery had only been able to offer burial services at its monumental and mausoleum sections, with Pine Lodge the only cemetery in the City of Greater Shepparton offering lawn burials.
Mrs Crowe said the Shepparton Public Cemetery Trust had been developing an unused piece of land since August last year with the intention of expanding burial options for the public.
“The one thing that was missing was the potential to be buried within a lawn section in the cemetery,” she said.
“We can now offer the lawn section too which really rounds off all choices.”
Mrs Crowe said burials in the lawn section would be more expensive than the other sections due to the "astronomical" rise in land prices as well as associated maintenance costs.
The Shepparton Public Cemetery Trust wished to make clear Shepparton Public Cemetery was not connected to the Greater Shepparton City Council, so all inquiries should be directed to Shepparton Public Cemetery directly.