§ 9-1. Definitions.

The following words and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall mean as follows:

Cemetery includes a city-owned and/or city-operated burial park for earth interments, community mausoleum for vault or crypt interments, a crematory or crematorium, or columbarium for cinerary interments, or a combination of one or more than one.

Columbarium means a grave space that is an above-ground structure designed to contain cinerary urns and inurnments.

Grave marker means a concrete post or other object used by the cemetery to locate a corner of a grave space.

Grave space means a lot of sufficient size, located in a cemetery, designated to accommodate interment.

Immediate family member shall mean a person's surviving spouse, child, grandchild, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, parent, grandparent, or sibling.

Interment shall mean the permanent disposition of the remains of a deceased person by burial, entombment, or inurnment.

Inurnment means an interment of ashes or crematory remains.

Marker means a memorial that is flush with the ground.

Memorial means a structure to commemorate or identify a family or individual interred in the grave space upon which it is located; memorial includes a marker, monument, tablet, tombstone, lot enclosure, crypt or similar structure.

Monument means a memorial which extends above the surface of the ground.

(Code 1973, § 12-401; Ord. No. 7304, § 1, 8-1-17)

Cross reference

Rules of construction and definitions generally, § 1-21 et seq.