For the purpose of these Rules and Regulations, and the interpretation and enforcement hereof, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context of the sentence in which they are used shall indicate otherwise:
(a) "Burial vault" shall mean an outside burial container as specified by the Village to encase human or cremated remains.
(b) "Cemeteries" shall mean, collectively, Rarick Cemetery and South Russell Village Cemetery.
(c) "Contractor" shall mean any person, firm or corporation or anyone other than an employee of the Village engaged in placing, erecting, or repairing any memorial or monument and performing any work on the grounds of the cemeteries.
(d) "Disinterment" shall mean the removal of the remains of a deceased human being from a grave.
(e) "Disinurnment" shall mean the removal of cremated remains from a grave.
(f) "Grave" means a space of ground in the cemeteries used, or intended to be used, for burial.
(g) "Interment" shall mean burial of the remains of a deceased human being.
(h) "Inurnment" shall mean the burial or placement of cremated human remains in a grave.
(i) "Memorial" or "monument" shall mean any marker placed upon any grave for the purpose of identification or in memory of the interred.
(j) "Owner" shall mean the owner of rights of interment or inurnment.
(k) "Rarick Cemetery" shall mean the cemetery, land, and improvements thereon and thereunder constituting Rarick Cemetery, located at 1070 Bell Road, in the Village of South Russell, Geauga County, Ohio, bearing permanent parcel numbers 29-064431 and 29-706403 and owned by the Village of South Russell.
(l) "Rules and Regulations" shall mean the Rules and Regulations of the Cemeteries of the Village of South Russell, as may be amended from time to time.
(m) "South Russell Village Cemetery" shall mean the cemetery, land, and improvements thereon and thereunder constituting South Russell Cemetery, located at 5230 Chillicothe Road, in the Village of South Russell, Geauga County, Ohio, bearing permanent parcel number 29-706407 and owned by the Village of South Russell.
(n) "Village" shall mean the Village of South Russell, its employees and duly authorized representatives, and Council.
(Ord. 2023-51. Passed 9-11-23.)