§ 10-4. Definitions

Definitions within this chapter shall be understood as follows:

Cemetery means any enclosure or plot of land that is or may be used for the burial of the dead and includes an individual plot.

Cemetery purpose means a purpose necessary or incidental to establishing, maintaining, managing, operating, improving, or conducting a cemetery, interring remains, or caring for, preserving, and embellishing cemetery purposes.

Columbarium means a durable, fireproof structure, or a room or other space in a durable fireproof structure, containing niches and used or intended to be used to contain cremated remains.

Crypt means a chamber in a mausoleum of sufficient size to inter human remains.

Grave means a space of ground that is in a burial park and that is used or intended to be used for interment in the ground.

Human remains or remains means the body of a deceased person, and includes the body in any stage of decomposition and the cremated remains of a body.

Interment means the permanent disposition of remains by entombment, burial, or placement in a niche.

Lawn crypt means a subsurface receptacle installed in multiple units for ground burial of human remains.

Mausoleum means a durable, fireproof structure used or intended to be used for entombment.

Niche means a space in a columbarium used or intended to be used for the placement of cremated remains in an urn or other container.

Plot means space in a cemetery owned by an individual or organization that is used or intended to be used for internment, including grave or adjoining graves, a crypt or adjoining crypts, a lawn crypt or adjoining lawn crypts, or a niche or adjoining niches.

Sexton means the individual assigned by the Town of Pahrump to manage cemetery property and shall not connote any religious affiliation whatsoever.

Urn means a vessel in which cremated remains can be placed and which can be closed to prevent leaking or spilling of the remains or the entrance of a foreign material.

Veteran means a member or former member of the United States Armed Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard) or the Reserve Components and Reserve Officers' Training Corps, a commissioned officer of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration or the public health service, or a World War II Merchant Mariner, subject to certain eligibility requirements.

(Ord. No. 39, 2-23-2010)