Article IV: Definitions

As used in these Rules and Regulation, the following definitions are set forth:

Burial Space: the ground space stipulated in the cemetery intended or used for the individual interment of human remains.

Cemeteries: an area of land together with the various improvements and embellishments thereon dedicated to the burial, entombment, and memory of the human dead. Specifically, reference is made to Spring Hill, Highland, Guyandotte, and Pat=s Branch cemeteries belonging to the Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District.

Cemetery: refers to authority and means GHPRD or an appointed agent acting on their behalf.

Columbarium: a structure, either freestanding or part of another building, containing niches for the inurnment of cremated remains.

Contractor: any person, firm, or corporation, other than an employee of the cemetery, erecting or repairing any memorial, delivering any material, or performing any work in the cemetery.

Cremains: the ashes that remain after cremation of a corpse.

Crypt: a space in a mausoleum or lawn crypt which is designed to receive a casket.

Decorations: object of a decorative nature such as, but not necessarily limited to natural or artificial flowers, wreaths, candles, pin wheels, hangers, balloons, flags, or toys which may be placed on graves or memorials.

Disinterment: to dig up or remove from a grave or tomb, exhume. It does not include relocation of remains from a temporary location to a place of permanent burial.

GHPRD: Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District.

Inter: to place in a grave or tomb, bury.

Interment: is the disposition of human remains by burial in the earth, entombment in a mausoleum or inurnment in a columbarium.

Interment Right: the inheritable right to interment in a specified grave space, mausoleum crypt, or columbarium niche.

Inurnment: to enclose in an urn.

Lawn crypts: burial vaults, either single or double in size, placed underground prior to the actual burial.

Lot: a particular area designated by map numbers and location within the cemetery consisting of a fixed number of grave spaces with burial rights.

Lot Owner: the owner of burial rights.

Marker: any memorial laying flat on the ground; generally set flush with the level of the turf.

Mausoleum: a building housing above ground crypts.

Memorial: any monument, marker, tablet, name plate, or structure placed upon or in any place of interment or elsewhere in the cemetery for the purpose of identification or in memory of a deceased person or persons.

Monument: any memorial set upright or perpendicular to the grade consisting of two or more pieces.

Niche: a compartment, as in a columbarium, for holding urns of cremated remains.

Owner: the owner of burial rights.

Perpetual Care: keeping the established sod in good condition, free of weeds and debris, keeping markers flush with the turf and cutting the grass at proper intervals to insure the areas neat appearance forever.

Right of Sepulcher: the inheritable right to interment in a specified grave space, mausoleum crypt, or columbarium niche.

Sepulcher: a place of burial; tomb.

Slab: a flat stone or bronze on granite memorial covering the entire grave.

Tomb: grave.

Urn: a vase on a pedestal used for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation.