§ 25.60.055. Interment and disinterment procedures.

A.

Lots in this cemetery shall be used for no other purpose than the burial of the human dead.

B.

The right is reserved by the cemetery to require at least 24 hours written notice before an interment (up to 72 hours in the winter season, November 1 through April 30), and up to one week notice prior to any disinterment or removal.

C.

It is unlawful to permit final disposition of a dead human body or fetus unless accompanied by a duly executed burial-transit permit issued by the State of Alaska, any other state in the union, or Canada. This permit must accompany the body until its final disposition and will then be retained in permanent records kept by the cemetery. The process of cremation is itself considered final disposition. Cremated remains shall not require a burial-transit permit for interment in the cemetery.

D.

A duly executed Burial Application and Marker Installation Permit (municipality dual-purpose form 14-058) will be required for each interment and/or marker installation. A licensed funeral director must be present at all burials except for burial of cremated remains.

E.

The cemetery shall in no way be liable for any delay in the interment of a body where a protest to the interment has been made, or where the rules and regulations have not been complied with. The cemetery reserves the right under such circumstances to place the remains in a receiving vault until the full rights of the parties involved have been determined. The cemetery reserves the right to require that any protest to any interment or disinterment be in writing and to be formally filed at the office of the cemetery.

F.

The cemetery shall not be liable for errors made with the interred person's identification. The cemetery shall compare the name and number of the person given by the mortuary with the burial permit. The cemetery will not be liable in any way for the embalming of any body.

G.

The interment and recording of all human remains within the cemetery is the sole responsibility of the cemetery authority and the private tractowner, and such recording shall be performed by authorized cemetery personnel and with information submitted to the cemetery by the private tractowner. This includes but is not limited to:

1.

The recording of interments in the permanent records and books of the cemetery.

2.

Locating the burial space from cemetery records, maps and surveys, excavations of the ground for burial, lowering the casket, and closing the grave.

3.

The placement of outer grave cribs or supports where work is required of personnel below the surface of the ground (setting of burial vaults).

4.

The opening, casket or urn placement, sealing or closing of mausoleum crypts, columbarium niches or burial space for human or cremated remains.

5.

Placing of memorials or markers.

H.

Tents, artificial grass, lowering devices, and other equipment owned by the cemetery shall be used exclusively in making interments, disinterments and removals.

I.

When instructions from reservation holders or tractowners regarding the location of an interment space cannot be obtained or are indefinite, or when for any reason the interment space cannot be opened where specified, the management may, in its discretion, open it in such a location as it deems best and proper, so as not to delay the funeral, and the cemetery shall not be liable in damages for any error so made.

J.

The cemetery shall not be responsible for any telephone or facsimile order given as to the particular space, size and location of any lot until a written contract for interment rights is executed.

K.

No more than one body of adult size or remains of one body of adult size shall be interred in one grave, vault, crypt or niche, unless such grave, vault, crypt or niche has been reserved with written agreement that more than one body or the remains of some may be interred. Exceptions by written agreement will be allowed where two infants can be buried in one standard lot and cremains of up to six urns in one standard lot. An infant can also be buried with a parent and up to two adults can be buried top and bottom in one gravesite.

L.

No disinterment shall occur without prior receipt by the cemetery of a duly executed Court Order for such disinterment which is issued in the district court in the state of Alaska.

M.

The cemetery shall exercise due care in making any disinterment or removal, however, it shall not assume any liability for damage to any casket or burial case or urn incurred when making such removal. A licensed mortician must be present at all disinterments.

N.

All interment, disinterment and work relating to lots or memorials will be completed by employees of the cemetery under direction of management. The cemetery will be responsible for grading, landscaping, and improving and maintaining the lots, opening and closing the lots, and all interments, except where noted by written agreement.

O.

Interment rights are to be reserved and made in this cemetery only with the written approval of management or private tractowners and subject to the rules of the cemetery now or hereafter adopted.

P.

Funeral parties shall be subject to the direction of the cemetery upon entering its property.

Q.

When a funeral or interment is in progress within two hundred feet or less from a work place where such work in progress may create a distraction, all work being performed in that area shall cease.

(AO No. 97-95, § 1, 7-1-97; AO No. 2001-90, § 9, 5-22-01)

Note— Formerly AMCR § 25.60.004.