(a) Pursuant to Ohio R.C. 5101.521 the City will allow and shall pay burial expenses of indigent persons found to be a legal resident of the municipality at the time of death. Expenses for burial are limited to a maximum amount, up to seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750.00). In addition, the City shall provide a stone or concrete marker with the person’s name, age, if known, and date of death inscribed. The City shall pay an amount up to two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for the cost of the marker.
(b) Burial shall occur in a lot as approved by the City in Fountain Grove Cemetery. If another burial location is requested, the purchase price for the burial lot shall not be an allowed expense and shall not be paid by the City.
(c) All persons seeking reimbursement from the City for indigent burial expenses shall provide to the Clerk-Treasurer:
(1) Information establishing indigency on a form to be furnished by the Clerk- Treasurer.
(2) Copy of death certificate.
(3) Copy of bills to be paid.
Payment shall not be made without the above documentation.
(d) Should it be ascertained, after any payment by the City, that such payment was made for a decedent whom the City did not have the responsibility to bury pursuant to Ohio R.C. 5101.521, the City shall be entitled to any benefits payable on behalf of such decedent by any person or agency who had the responsibility to pay burial benefits, up to an amount totaling the payment made by the City.
(Ord. 17-2003. Passed 4-7-03.)