Interpretation

In these By-laws“burial” means the internment of a corpse in a grave below the ground, in a tomb or above ground in a vault, mausoleum or columbarium, or internment at sea; “Cemetery Keeper” means the officer appointed by the Council to manage and control the cemetery; “child’s grave” means a common grave assigned for the burial of a child not more than three months old; “columbarium” means a structure of vault lined with recesses for urns; “common grave” means a burial place formed in the ground by excavation and without any internal wall of brickwork or stonework, or any other artificial lining; “cremation” means the process of reducing human remains to basic elements in the form of bone fragments through flame and heat or vaporization; “enclosed grave” means any vault or grave lined or cased with bricks, stones, cement, concrete, or any other hard material, in respect of which an exclusive right of interment is approved; 128 “mausoleum” means a stone building with places for entombment of the dead above ground; “open grave” means a burial place the site of which is assigned by the Council to the applicant, or to which an exclusive right of interment may be approved; “paupers’ grave” mean a common grave; “urns” means a container into which cremated remains are placed or in which they are kept; “vault” means the construction of graves of cement or other durable material for the burial of the dead above ground.