Receiving vaults are for temporary use only and on a rental basis to non-residents of the city and under no circumstances shall a body be considered as interred or buried by reason of being placed therein. However, the same permits must be procured for placing bodies in the receiving vaults as for burials, and the burial order will be issued the same as for immediate interment in a grave. A deposit sufficient to cover the cost of opening and closing a grave, and purchase of a single grave plus a rental charge for use of the receiving vault by non-residents of the city, shall be required at the time of placing the remains in the vault. Upon failure to make suitable arrangements for the final disposition of the remains, within a reasonable time, or upon failure to pay rental when required, the city may, in its discretion, remove the body and inter it in a single grave, after first having mailed a certified letter, return receipt requested, to the last known address of the person who made the placement, stating its intention of making said removal, and shall then retain said deposit as liquidated damages. In extremely cold weather or after a heavy snow, all bodies will be placed in the receiving vault and retained there until the cemetery management can make suitable arrangements for burial, and arrangements must be made for their removal at as early a date as possible thereafter. From May to November, bodies will be placed in the receiving vault only on special written order from the Sexton, and, if they are to remain for over three days, must be enclosed in hermetically sealed boxes as approved by the county’s Health Officer. The remains of any person who has died of an infectious and/or contagious disease shall not be allowed to be deposited in the receiving vault, except on a special permit from the county’s Health Officer stating that the rules and regulations of the Department of Health regarding such cases have been complied with. Under no circumstances shall visitors be admitted to the vaults.
(Prior Code, § 1062.17)