(a) Conditions for Payment by Village. The Village Administrator is authorized to pay for the burial or cremation of a deceased person within the City, a maximum payment of one thousand dollars ($1,000) for burial, or; a maximum payment of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for cremation; a maximum payment of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for the opening and closing of grave, and a maximum payment of thirty-five dollars ($35.00) for stone or metal marker, upon the following conditions:
(1) Such person was an indigent or was without sufficient assets to pay for the burial expenses;
(2) There is no one legally obligated or able to pay for such burial;
(3) When such body is not claimed by any person for private interment at his own expense;
(4) Such deceased person at death was not an inmate of a penal, reformatory, benevolent or charitable institution in the State.
(b) Information Affidavit. The Village Administrator is authorized and directed to prepare and use an information affidavit to be signed by a next of kin of such deceased person.
(Ord. 3213. Passed 8-20-18.)