§ 173.105. Cemetery operations.

(a)

No person shall inter any human remains in the City in any place other than an approved cemetery under the provisions of this Chapter.

(b)

No person shall bury or remove from the City human remains without first securing from the local Registrar of Vital Statistics a burial or transportation permit, which shall be issued only when a properly executed death certificate of the decedent named in the permit shall be on file in the office of the Department as provided in the Health Code. The permit shall disclose the name, address, sex, age, color, cause of death, place or burial or removal, name of attending physician, and such other information as the local Registrar of Vital Statistics may require. No owner, caretaker or other employees of a cemetery shall permit the burial or removal of human remains without first receiving a burial or removal permit as required by this Section.

(c)

Every individual grave shall have minimum dimensions of three feet in width, eight feet in length, and four feet in depth, except:

(1)

A grave in which a permanent outer container is used.

(2)

A grave in a cemetery section reserved and used exclusively for burial of infants.

(d)

No person shall bury or cause to be buried any human remains in a grave site which is surrounded or otherwise attended by any form of coping, cradle or fences.

(e)

No person shall bury or cause to be buried any human remains in a grave beneath the ground surrounded or otherwise attended by a wooden box or similar box and only such grave boxes as are made of cement, concrete or similar material shall be permitted.

(f)

No person shall bury or cause to be buried any human remains in any overground or aboveground vault, but specifically excluding any mausoleum or columbarium.

(g)

No person shall own or operate a cemetery without secure and properly maintained perimeter or boundary fencing so as to restrict or prevent ingress to or egress from the property, except at specified points or locations serviced by walkways or driveways or other similar thoroughfares with a paved or otherwise prepared or properly maintained surface.

(h)

The holder of a cemetery permit shall provide a five-foot-wide, landscaped buffer zone of evergreen trees or shrubs adjacent to all cemetery boundary lines which adjoin property zoned for residential use:

(1)

At least 90 days before the first interment which is within 100 feet of the residentially zoned property; or

(2)

Within 90 days after the adjoining property is first zoned for residential use,

Whichever is later.

(Ord. 70-650-526; Ord. 71-51-161, § 2; Ord. 71-397-181; Ord. 73-718-335, § 3; Ord. 73-1258-567, § 1; Ord. 73-1497-763, § 1; Ord. 83-591-400, § 1)

Note— Former § 510.105.