A. Permits Required:
1. Before any deceased person is buried in the city cemetery, a permit properly issued by the registrar of the registration district in which the death occurred or, in the absence of such registrar, a permit duly issued by the state division of health or other authorized person shall be required by the cemetery sexton. After burial, the sexton shall endorse upon the permit a description of the location where the deceased is buried and shall enter all of the information contained in the permit in the cemetery records. (1980 Code § 8-221; amd. 2002 Code)
2. It shall be unlawful for any person to bury the body of a deceased person in the city cemetery without first obtaining a certificate of burial right for the lot used or producing satisfactory evidence of a right to burial based on a properly acquired certificate of burial right. (1980 Code § 8-222)
B. Registration: Before any deceased person may be buried in the city cemetery, the relatives or person having charge of the deceased shall provide the city recorder with a written statement which shall be filed by the city recorder, which statement shall contain, if known, information about the deceased regarding his or her name, when and where born, the date and cause of death, the name of the attending physician, date of burial, name of cemetery and the description of the location of the grave. (1980 Code § 8-223)
C. Unlawful Or Restricted Acts:
1. It is an infraction, subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code, for any person to:
a. Disinter any body buried in any cemetery, except under the direction of the cemetery sexton who shall, before disinterment, require written permission from both the district health officer and the owner of the lot or his or her heirs, which written authorization shall be filed and preserved in a record kept for such purposes, or in the alternative, a properly issued and signed court order providing for such action.
b. Disinter or remove the body of a person who has died from a contagious disease within two (2) years after the date of burial, unless the body was buried in a hermetically sealed casket or vault and is found to be so incased at the time of disinterment.
2. It is an infraction, subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code, to inter anything other than the remains of human bodies in cemeteries.
3. It is an infraction, subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this code, to bury the body of any person within the city, except in the city cemetery or a private cemetery, unless by special permission of the city council under such rules and regulations that it may prescribe. (1980 Code § 8-224; amd. 2002 Code)
D. Vaults Required; Exception:
1. Unless in writing waived by the cemetery sexton, it shall be unlawful for any person to be buried in the cemetery unless the casket shall be placed in a vault made of concrete, fiberglass, steel or brick-lined or of such other material approved by the city council, substantially constructed and covered with a similar durable material.
2. No wood shall be used as a permanent part of the construction of any part of the vault. (1980 Code § 8-225; amd. 2002 Code)