(a) For the purpose of this Chapter, and the interpretation and enforcement thereof, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context of the sentence in which they are used shall indicate otherwise. For all locations in the rules, the singular may be interchanged with the plural for any reference to a burial space. For all locations in the rules, burial space means casket or cremains.
(1) Burial Space means graves, lot, plot, crypt, or columbarium niche.
(2) Burial Permit means a burial permit issued pursuant to Section 3705.17 of the Ohio Revised Code, or a Certification of cremated remains from a cremation service.
(3) Columbarium means an above ground structure containing multiple cremation niches.
(4) Crypt means space in a mausoleum for a full casket.
(5) Exhume/Exhumation means to remove from a burial space, to disinter.
(6) Grantee means a person to whom a grant or conveyance is made of a burial space.
(7) Headstone Monument means a stone marking the head of a burial space.
(8) Interment means a burial.
(9) Lot means the lot card showing five (5) burial spaces numbered one to five (1-5).
(10) Marker means a stone flush or slightly raised from the ground.
(11) Mausoleum means a large above ground structure containing multiple burial spaces or niches.
(12) Niche means a space in a columbarium, mausoleum or niche wall to hold a cremation urn.
(13) Grade means the degree of surface inclination of the grouncl at a burial space.
(Ord. 37-2024. Passed 6-4-24.)