§ 25.60.015. Definitions.

The following definitions shall apply herein:

Cemetery Director means the person duly assigned by Health and Human Services for the purpose of administrating the cemetery.

Columbarium means a structure, either freestanding or part of another building, containing niches for the inurnment of cremated remains.

Companion niche means a niche in the columbarium that will hold up to three urns with a combined size of less than 11 inches by 11 inches by 11 inches.

Contractor or worker means any firm, vendor or person engaged in placing, erecting or repairing any memorial or performing any work in the cemetery grounds, other than a employee of the cemetery employed by the municipality.

Cremated remains or cremains means all the material left after the cremation process is complete and usually stored and transported in an urn.

Entombment means the placement of casketed human remains in a mausoleum or crypt.

Family niche means a niche in the columbarium that will hold up to eight urns with a combined size of less than 11 inches by 11 inches by 23 inches.

Interment means burial, entombment or inurnment of the remains of a deceased person.

Inurnment means the permanent placement of cremated remains which are contained in an urn in a niche, crypt or in the ground.

Lot or gravesite means a specific location in the cemetery designated by the managing agency or private tractowner as being used or to be used for the interment of human remains.

Mausoleum or crypt means an above-ground unit for the entombment of casketed human remains. For this application, the terms mausoleum and crypt are used interchangeably.

Memorial means any marker or structure upon or in the lot, niche or crypt placed thereupon or therein or partially therein for the purpose of identification or in memorialization of the deceased.

Niche means a compartment in a columbarium for permanent placement of an urn or urns containing cremated remains.

Niche owner means the next of in or responsible person (as determined by the cemetery director) who purchases a niche. The niche owner does not acquire the property itself, but only the entitlement to the rights of inurnment within a niche in the columbarium. All ownership of the land and the columbarium remains with the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery and the Municipality of Anchorage.

Niche plaque means a granite or bronze marker attached to the front of a niche on a columbarium which is used as a memorial for the human remains in the identified niche.

Private tract owner means the veteran, fraternal and church organization holding a patent to specific tracts of land and specific sections of the columbarium wall:

Organization	Tract	Wall Section
Pioneers of Alaska, Igloo #15	1, 10 & 11	18, 20 & 22
B.P.O.E. Elks	2	2
Catholic Archdiocese	5 & 6	13 & 14
Anchorage Masonic Lodge #17	9	9
Loyal Order of Moose #1534	12	26
American Legion Jack Henry Post #1	19 & 20	27 & 39

 

QR Code means Quick Response Code and is a type of matrix barcode that is a machine or smartphone readable optical representation of data relating to the niche or marker to which it is attached. The data is provided by the niche or marker owner, not the cemetery.

Reservation holder means any person holding a valid reservation for a burial lot for future interment, with all reservation fees paid in advance.

Single niche means a niche in the columbarium which will hold only one urn with a size equal to or less than seven inches by seven inches by 11 inches.

Urn means an appropriately sized container designed to permanently store and transport the human cremated remains of one person.

(AO No. 97-95, § 1, 7-1-97; AO No. 2001-90, § 3, 5-22-01; AO No. 2002-78, § 1, 6-25-02; AO No. 2004-78, § 1, 5-11-04; AO No. 2009-81, § 1, 7-7-09; AO No. 2014-94, § 1, 8-5-14)

Note— Formerly AMCR § 25.60.001.