ARTICLE I

Definitions

A.  Burial space:  Any space within the Cemetery used or intended to be sued for the interment of human remains and includes crypts, niches, and earthen interments.
 

B.  Burial space owner:  Any person in whose name a burial space is of record as owner in the office of the Cemetery.  

C.  Cemetery:  All land and structures comprising Oak Hill Cemetery and Locust Hill Cemetery.

 D.  Cemetery Purposes:   Any and all things requisite or necessary for or incident or convenient to the establishment, maintenance, management, operation, improvement, and conduct of a Cemetery, the preparation for interment and the interment of the human dead, and the care, preservation, and embellishment of Cemetery property.

 E.  Columbarium:  A structure, room or space in a building or structure used or intended to be used for the interment of cremated human remains. 

F.  Community Mausoleum or columbarium:  A Mausoleum or columbarium in which interment rights are, or have been offered for sale to the general public. 

G.  Cremation:  The incineration of the body of a deceased person. 

H.  Crematory:  A building or structure, within which the remains of deceased persons are, or are intended to be cremated.

 I.  Crypt:  A chamber in a Mausoleum of sufficient size to entomb the uncremated remains of a deceased person.

 J.  Human Remains:  The body of a deceased person, and includes the body in any stage of decomposition and cremated remains.

 K.  Interment:  Any lawful disposition of the remains of a deceased person.

 L.  Lot:  Four (4) or more burial spaces in a consecutive row.

 M.  Mausoleum:  A structure or building used, or intended to be used for the interment of human remains in crypts, vaults or niches, including a        columbarium.

 N.  Niche:  A space in a columbarium, used or intended to be used, for the interment of the cremated remains of one or more deceased persons.

 O.  Superintendent:  The person appointed by the Mayor for the purpose of managing the Cemetery.

 P.  Board of Public Works, City of Evansville:  Persons duly appointed by the Mayor, and qualified pursuant to law, to serve as the governing body of the Cemetery.  (Referred to as “Board” in the remainder of this document).