“Burial” or “interment” means the permanent disposition of the remains or cremations of a deceased person by crypt or vault entombment, burial of remains in a niche or container, or earth burial.

“Burial lot” means a single platted parcel of land within a cemetery designed for interment of human remains, including graves, plots, sites or spaces.

“Burial permit” means a valid city permit allowing the burial of a deceased person in any cemetery.

“Burial preparation” or “grave preparation” means the excavation, backfill and removal of excess material from a burial lot and replacement of the turf.

“Cemetery” means a burial park for earth and crypt interments.

“City” means the city of Bethel.

“City cemetery” or “municipal cemetery” means a cemetery owned and operated by the city in accordance with this chapter and designated as a city cemetery under BMC 13.20.070.

“Disinterment” or “exhumation” means the removal of a deceased person’s remains from a grave.

“Immediate family” means the person’s spouse, domestic partner, siblings, children, parents, grandparents or grandchildren.

“Memorial” means any marker, monument, tablet, headstone or structure upon or in a burial lot, niche or crypt placed thereupon for the identification or memory of the interred.

“Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act” means the federal laws embodied in United States Code Title 25, Chapter 32, which were enacted to protect the ownership and control of Native American cultural items.

“Permittee” means a person who has acquired the right to use a burial lot in accordance with this chapter, and any rules or regulations promulgated in accordance with this chapter.

“Perpetual care” means providing for normal and reasonable maintenance of burial lots, the grounds, walks, roadways, boundaries and structures in a city cemetery in order that they shall remain and be reasonably cared for as cemetery grounds forever. Perpetual care includes cutting of grass at reasonable intervals; removal of rubbish; general care and pruning of trees and shrubs that may be along the walks, roadways and boundaries. It does not include the care or cultivation of any special flowers, shrubs, trees or other plants on any particular burial lots or grave spaces; nor the repairing, removal, replacement, reconstruction or maintenance of monuments or memorials; nor the construction or reconstruction of any marble, granite, bronze or concrete work on any lot where same is damaged from any cause whatsoever. The city is solely responsible for determining the level of perpetual care and normal and reasonable maintenance that it shall provide at city cemeteries.

“Remains” means any part or parts of the body of a deceased person.

“Reservation” means the reserving of a burial lot(s) in advance of interment, and does not imply any fee simple transfer of ownership. [Ord. 13-21 § 2; Ord. 01-23 § 2.]