§ 2-621. Family burial lot.

(a) Whenever an interment is made in a lot for which the interment rights have been conveyed to an individual owner by the city and is held as a separate lot, it shall be indivisible, and, at the option of the city, the whole of such burial lot thereby becomes inalienable and shall be held as the family burial lot of the owner in which one (1) grave may be used for the owner's interment and one (1) for the interment of the surviving spouse, if any, of the owner.

(b) In the event there has been no written order by the owner filed with the city designating those whom he authorizes to be interred therein, the parents or children of such deceased owner may be interred in such lot in the order of need without the consent of any person claiming any interest therein.

(c) In the event there shall be no parent or child surviving such deceased person, the right of interment therein shall go the next heirs at law of such deceased owner as specified by the statutes of descent of the state.

(d) Any surviving spouse and any parent, child or heir of a deceased owner may waive his right to interment in such lot in favor of any other relative of such deceased owner or of his spouse, and upon such waiver, the remains of the person in whose favor the waiver is made may be interred therein.

(Ord. No. 2009-32, § 1, 12-15-09)