The City shall have the power to sell lots and parts of lots in the Mountain Home Cemetery, now known as the Mountain View Cemetery, by certificates signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the Clerk, under the Seal of the City, specifying that the person to whom the same is issued is the owner of the lot or lots described, according to the plat of said cemetery now on file in the Office of the County Recorder of Elmore County, Idaho. Such certificates shall vest in the proprietor, his or her heirs or assigns, a right in fee simple to said lots for the sole purpose of interment, under such regulations as the City Council may provide. The City shall perform the interment and disinterment. Said lots shall be sold and the interment and disinterment shall be performed by the City according to the fee schedule as established by resolution of the City Council.
An additional fee as set by resolution of the City Council shall be charged for any burial or disinterment services held on Saturdays or holidays. There shall be no burials or disinterments on Sundays. An additional fee as set by resolution of the City Council shall be charged for each additional remains buried in one lot.
For the purpose of this chapter, the term "resident" shall mean the decedent who at the time of his/her death resided or owned real estate in the City or a member of the decedent's immediate family who is purchasing the cemetery lot who resides in the City or owns real estate located in the City. The term "nonresident" shall mean every other person. (Ord. 1649, 2-22-2016)
Cemetery lots shall be used only for the burial of the human dead and for the burial of cremains of the human dead. A cemetery lot shall be used to contain no more than two (2) full caskets and two (2) containers of ashes or cremains, or up to four (4) containers of ashes or cremains. Burial of the caskets or cremains does not have to take place at the same time, however the decision to bury more than one casket in a single lot must be made and communicated to the City Clerk at the time that the first casket is placed in the cemetery lot. The placement of more than one casket in a cemetery lot shall require the placement of a double depth concrete box. No single container stacking, such as a Monticello vault or a concrete box, shall be allowed for a double depth burial. Double depth burials are not permitted within some of the locations within the cemetery. At the time a cemetery lot is purchased, any purchaser of the cemetery lot who intends to use the lot for a double depth burial shall notify the City Clerk of such and the City Clerk will confer with the Cemetery Sexton at the time the lot is purchased and a decision shall be made by the City Clerk and Cemetery Sexton whether a double depth burial is permitted in the cemetery lot that is being purchased. The City Clerk shall notify the purchaser of the cemetery lot at the time it is purchased if a double depth burial will be permitted in the lot being purchased. Each burial shall incur opening and closing fees as established by the City. (Ord. 1668, 3-12-2018)
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