(a) This indigent burial policy is enacted to comply with the provisions of R.C. § 9.15 pertaining to the burial of indigent persons found within the City who are not claimed by any person for private interment or cremation at the person's own expense, or interment or cremation when the body of an indigent person is claimed by an indigent person. The purpose of this policy is to provide for the burial of indigents, or the burial of an indigent person claimed by an indigent person, for reasons of public health and sensibilities.
(b) When the body of a deceased person is found, within or outside of the City, and such person was not an inmate of a correctional, benevolent, or charitable institution of this State and the body is either not claimed by any person for private interment or cremation at the person's own expense or not delivered for the purpose of medical or surgical study or dissection in accordance with Ohio law, the City shall be liable for the cremation and interment expenses, in the amounts set forth herein, if:
(1) The deceased person is determined to be an indigent person; and
(2) The person was a legal resident of the City of Parma Heights at the time of death.
(c) When the body is claimed by an indigent person simply as that of a loved one, without undertaking to arrange and pay for private interment, the City shall be liable for the cremation or interment expenses, in the amounts set forth herein, if:
(1) The deceased person is determined to be an indigent person; and
(2) The person was a legal resident of the City of Parma Heights at the time of death; and
(3) The claimant is determined to be an indigent person.
(Ord. 2021-8. Passed 2-22-21.)