(a) The City will pay to have indigent people cremated, up to a maximum cost of seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) or amount set by the Ohio Revised Code, and will designate a burial site, as per Ohio R.C. 9.15 and 2108.70 to 2108.90.
(b) All indigent burials will be made by cremation. To qualify for indigent burial, the deceased must meet all of the following criteria.
(1) Was a resident of the City at the time of death; and
(2) Has no estate (cash, property or insurances, etc.) from which to pay the cost of a funeral whose income does not exceed 150% of the federal poverty lines, as revised annually by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in accordance with section 673(2) of the “Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981" 95 Stat. 511, 42 U.S.C. 9902, as amended, for a family size equal to the size of the deceased’s family ; and
(3) Is not eligible for burial assistance from the Social Security Administration or Veterans' Administration, as per Ohio R.C. 9.15 and 2108.70 to 2108.90; and
(4) Has no family, next of kin, to pay the cost.
(c) When a dead person is found in the City of New Carlisle and such person was not an inmate of a correctional, benevolent, or charitable institution of this state, and the body is not claimed by any person for private interment or cremation at the deceased’s own expense, or delivered for the purpose of medical or surgical study or dissection in accordance with R.C. § 1713.34, it shall be disposed of by the City of New Carlisle. If the deceased was not a resident of the City of New Carlisle (as in (b)(1) above), the City shall seek reimbursement for the cost of said expenses from the township or municipality of their legal residence.
(d) The City Manager will have final say on indigent status.
(e) The City will provide a metal, stone, or concrete marker on which the person’s name and age, if known, and date of death shall be inscribed. The material of the marker will be at the discretion of the City Manager. If the deceased was not a resident of the City of New Carlisle, the City shall seek reimbursement for the cost of said marker from the township or municipality of their legal residence.
(Ord. 08-47. Passed 9-2-08; Ord. 10-15. Passed 5-3-10; Ord. 12-14. Passed 5-7-12; Ord. 14-30. Passed 6-2-14.)