§ 7.5-3. Sale of interment rights.

(a)

No human remains or cremains shall be interred in any cemetery owned by the city except upon the purchase of a right of interment from the city. The right of interment shall entitle the purchaser to bury or dispose of the purchaser's remains or cremains, or the remains or cremains or any natural person within the purchaser's immediate family, in a cemetery owned by the city. The right of interment shall be limited to the particular burial space or spaces set forth in the document conferring the right and shall be the right of interment shall not be construed as conveying any interest in the real property upon which or in which remains or cremains may be buried or disposed, nor shall it be construed as granting the owner thereof any rights other than those specifically granted by this chapter.

(b)

The city clerk shall issue the right of interment to a current resident, or current or former property owner who:

(1)

Presents proof of current residence; and

(2)

Pays the appropriate fee.

In order to be valid, the right of interment issued hereunder must be recorded in the office of the city clerk.

(c)

Unless otherwise approved by the city, no more than one right of interment shall be sold for a particular burial space except as follows:

(1)

A right of interment for cremains may by sold in a remains burial space for which a person owns a right of interment if that person acquiesces in writing to the sale of the cremains right. However, no more than two cremains interment rights shall be sold for any such burial space.

(2)

A total of two cremains interment rights may be sold for any cremains burial space so long as the person owning interment right for the entire burial space acquiesces in writing to the sale of any additional cremains interment right.

This subsection shall not prohibit the city from selling an interment right in a burial space previously encumbered by an interment right if the previous interment right has been extinguished.

(3)

A total of one cremains may be interred with one remains in a single burial space as long as the person owning interment rights for the entire burial space acquiesces in writing to the sale of the cremains interment right for the particular burial space.

(Ord. No. 252, 4-26-93; Ord. No. 319, § 2, 7-1-98)