ARTICLE 2 CEMETERIES
PART 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION:
14.2.101: Definitions
14.2.102: Legislative Declaration; Cemeteries Designated; Delegation Of Authority
14.2.103: Enterprise Status; Accountability; Contracts
14.2.104: Records
14.2.105: Rules And Regulations
14.2.106: Ownership
14.2.107: Control Of Work
14.2.108: Rights Of City Reserved
14.2.109: Unauthorized Burial
14.2.110: Religious Institution Columbaria; Creation; Trust Fund Regulations
BLOCK: Portion of a cemetery which is usually defined by roads or other boundaries around its perimeter and which is divided into lots and spaces.
BURIAL: The permanent disposition of human remains by burial, entombment, inurnment or dispersal of cremains.
BURIAL RIGHT; INTERMENT RIGHT: The right to inter in a burial space; this right is not title to land, but merely a right to be buried in a described space.
BURIAL SPACE; SPACE: A grave space, crypt space cremation garden space or niche, including, if available, double depth spaces for burial of two (2) caskets or one casket and one cremains container with one on top of the other, used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains.
CEMETERY; CEMETERIES: A place of burial for earth interments, mausoleum for crypt entombments, columbarium for cinerary interments, or a combination of these. The cemeteries owned and operated by the City are Fairview and Evergreen Cemeteries 1 . The City cemeteries shall be operated as an enterprise of the City.
CEMETERY MANAGER: The person charged with administrative control and supervision of the cemeteries, or the Manager's designee.
CEMETERY OFFICE: Cemetery administration offices located at Evergreen Cemetery, 1005 South Hancock Avenue.
CERTIFICATE OF OWNERSHIP: A written document issued by the City to a purchaser of a grave space, which document evidences ownership of a right to be buried in the specific grave space.
COLUMBARIUM: An aboveground structure containing niches for the inurnment of cremated human remains.
CREMAINS: Cremated human remains.
CREMATION GARDEN: An outdoor area dedicated to the deposit of cremains.
ENDOWMENT: An irrevocable perpetual care endowment trust fund established by the City, for and devoted to the perpetual care and maintenance of the endowed burial spaces in the City cemetery.
FAMILY: Those persons related by blood, marriage or law or descended from a common ancestor.
FEES: City Council establishes fees to be assessed for cemetery services. Fees are contained in the rules and regulations for the City cemeteries.
GRAVE SPACE: A space of ground sufficient in size for burial of the remains of one adult or infant, one adult and one cremains or two (2) cremains, as specified by cemetery plat. (See also definition of Burial Space; Space.)
IMMEDIATE FAMILY: Husband and wife and their children, whether living together or not.
INTERMENT: The permanent disposition of human remains by burial, entombment, inurnment or dispersal. (See also definition of Burial.)
LOTS: A unit of purchase which may contain either four (4), six (6) or eight (8) burial spaces as specified for the particular block.
MARKER: One piece stones which are customarily used to mark individual graves.
MAUSOLEUM AND SARCOPHAGUS: Structures for aboveground interment.
MEMORIAL: A generic term which includes a marker, monument, mausoleum, crypt, urn, niche, plate or other physical object used to identify the occupant of the grave space.
MONOLITH: One piece memorials of a particular design, usually a tall stone of narrow width and depth.
MONUMENT: Memorials of more than one piece.
NEXT OF KIN: Relatives of a deceased person according to the Colorado laws of intestacy.
PRIVATE ABOVEGROUND STRUCTURES: Mausolea, sarcophagi, columbaria, coping, fencing or other similar aboveground funerary memorials constructed and maintained by certificate of purchase owners upon burial spaces identified by plat as appropriate areas for aboveground structures.
UNENDOWED AREA: An area platted for burial spaces and within which a portion of the burial space purchase price is not deposited in the endowment.
UNENDOWED SPACE: A burial space for which a portion of the purchase price has not been deposited in the endowment. (Ord. 93-149; Ord. 98-202; Ord. 01-42; Ord. 08-151)
Notes
| 1 | 1. See section 14.2.102 of this part. |
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