A. “Burial” means the placement of human remains in a grave.

B. “Cemetery” means any one, or combination of more than one, of the following, in a place used, and dedicated for cemetery purposes:

C. “Columbarium” means a structure or other space containing niches for permanent inurnment of cremated remains.

D. “Committal” means that part of a funeral service which commits the remains of the deceased to their final resting place.

E. “Cremated remains” means a human body after cremation in a crematory.

F. “Crypt” means a space in a mausoleum of sufficient size, used or intended to be used, to entomb uncremated human remains.

G. “Funeral” means a memorial service for a deceased person.

H. “Grave” means a space of ground in a cemetery, used or intended to be used for burial.

I. “Companion grave” means two single graves side by side or one double depth grave.

J. “Grave owner” or “owner” means any person in whose name an interment plot stands of record as owner, in the records of the cemetery authority.

K. “Human remains” or “remains” means the body of a deceased person, and includes the body in any stage of decomposition except cremated remains.

L. “Interment” means the disposition of human remains by cremation and inurnment, entombment, or burial in a cemetery.

M. “Marker and/or memorial” means any grave marker, headstone or monument that is intended to permanently mark a grave.

N. “Mausoleum” means a structure or building for the entombment of human remains in crypts in a place used, or intended to be used, for cemetery purposes.

O. “Niche” means a space in a columbarium or urn garden used, or intended to be used, for inurnment of cremated human remains.

P. “Plot” means a grave, niche or crypt.

Q. “Vault” or “liner” means any container which is buried in the ground and into which human remains are placed in the burial process. (Ord. 4485 § 2, 1991.)