Where the owner of a lot is dead or presumed to be dead by reason of unexplained absence from his usual place of residence for more than seven years and no interments have been made in the lot for more than thirty-five years, and there are one or more adjacent vacant grave spaces thereon, such adjacent vacant grave spaces being side by side as distinguished from end to end, and by reasonable effort the names and addresses of the persons entitled to inherit such burial rights on the lot cannot be ascertained, such adjacent vacant spaces may be declared abandoned by the Director of Public Service and shall revert to the City and may be sold by the City free from the claims of any and all persons otherwise entitled to the same under these rules and regulations, provided that at least one grave space shall be left vacant on either side of any body interred on such lot. In the event that any person entitled to inherit the lot should subsequently appear, the City shall provide for such person suitable spae or spaces free of charge as he may be entitled to, either on one or more of the spaces left vacant or elsewhere in Willow Cemetery or North Oregon Cemetery.
(Ord. 16-1981. Passed 2-9-81.)