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As used in this chapter the following terms are defined as follows:

BURIAL: The interment of human remains, including cremated remains.

BURIAL LOT: The location, by section and block, identified in a city cemetery for the future exercise of a burial right, or the memorial to a deceased person, including historically created half burial lots.

BURIAL RIGHT: The nontransferable, limited right of a specific individual to be buried in a specific burial lot in any land designated by the city as a cemetery or a cremation garden.

BURIAL VAULT: A structure used to hold a casket or container of cremated remains.

CERTIFICATE OF BURIAL RIGHT: A document issued by the city identifying the individual who may be buried in a burial lot.

CREMATED REMAINS: The remains of a deceased human that have been reduced to ashes.

DISINTERMENT: The permanent removal of a casket or cremated remains from a burial lot.

EXHUMATION: The temporary removal of human remains from a burial lot.

GRAVE: A burial lot in which human remains, including cremated remains, have been buried or which has been excavated in anticipation of burial.

HEADSTONE: A marker or monument used to identify the person interred in a burial lot.

MARKER: A headstone that is flat, flush to the natural grade of a grave identifying the person whose remains are buried in the grave.

MEMORIALS: Items placed on a burial lot as a remembrance.

MONUMENT: A headstone that is upright located on a grave identifying the person whose remains are buried interred in the grave. (Ord. 2000-02-002, 2-3-2000; amd. Ord. 2021-08-001, 8-5-2021)