§ 22-31 — Definitions

Sec. 22-31. - Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: Cemetery means Spring Hill Cemetery Park. Certificate of right of interment means the document that conveys the right of interment. Columbarium means a structure, either freestanding or part of another building or structure, containing niches for the inurnment of cremated remains. Commission means the Spring Hill Cemetery Park Commission. Crypt means a space in a mausoleum or lawn crypt which is designed to receive a casket. Entombment means the placing of human remains in a mausoleum crypt. Interment means the disposition of human remains by burial in the earth, entombment in a mausoleum or inurnment in a columbarium. Interment space means the space designated by number and locations in a mausoleum or in a columbarium for entombment or inurnment of human remains. Inurnment means the placing of cremated remains in a columbarium niche. Lawn crypts means burial vaults, either single or double size, placed underground prior to actual burial. Lot means a particular area designated by map numbers and location within the cemetery consisting of a fixed number of grave spaces. Marker means any memorial lying flat on the ground; generally set flush with the level of the turf, but not to be greater than eight inches above the ground. Mausoleum means a building housing multiple crypts. Memorial means any monument, marker, tablet, nameplate or structure placed upon or in any place of interment or elsewhere in the cemetery for the purposes of identification or in memory of a deceased person. Monument means any memorial set upright or perpendicular to the grade that is greater than eight inches above the ground. Niche means a compartment, as in a columbarium, for holding urns of cremated remains. Right of interment means the right to specify who may be interred or entombed in a cemetery space, and the right to place a memorial or marker where permitted. Second right of interment means the right to specify that the cremated remains of a particular person may be placed in a cemetery space that already contains another person's remains, and the right to place a memorial or marker where permitted.

(Bill No. 7540, 10-1-2012)