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Cemetery Property – A grave, crypt, or niche.
Cemetery Services – Opening and closing graves, crypts, or niches; setting grave liners and vaults; setting markers; and long-term maintenance of cemetery grounds and facilities.
Columbarium – A structure with niches (small spaces) for placement of cremated remains in urns or other approved containers. It may be outdoors or part of a mausoleum.
Cremation – Exposing human remains and the container encasing them to extreme heat and flame and processing the resulting bone fragments to a uniform size and consistency.
Crypt – A space in a mausoleum or other building to hold casketed human remains or cremated remains in an urn.
Disposition – The placement of whole human remains or cremated remains in their final resting place. A Permit for Disposition must be filed with the local registrar before disposition can take place.
Endowment Care Fund – Moneys collected from cemetery property purchasers and placed in trust for the maintenance and upkeep of the cemetery. The state monitors the fund and establishes the minimum amount that must be collected; however, the cemetery is permitted to collect more.
Entombment – Burial in a mausoleum.
Funeral Ceremony – A service commemorating the deceased with the body present.
Funeral Services – Services provided by a funeral director and staff that help to commemorate a life, which may include consulting with the family on funeral planning; transportation, shelter, refrigeration, and embalming of remains; preparing and filing notices; etc.
Grave – A space in the ground in a cemetery for the burial of casketed human remains or cremated remains in an urn.
Outer Burial Container – A container (vault) that completely encloses the casket and minimizes ground settling.
Graveside Service – A service to commemorate the deceased that is held at the cemetery prior to the burial.
Interment – Burial in the ground, inurnment, or entombment.
Inurnment – The placing of cremated remains into a niche.
Mausoleum – A building in which human remains are buried (entombed).
Memorial Service – A ceremony commemorating the deceased without the body present.
Niche – A space in a columbarium, mausoleum, or niche wall to hold an urn.
Urn – A container to hold cremated human remains. It can be placed in a columbarium or mausoleum, or it can be buried in the ground.
Vault – An outer burial container that completely encloses a casket.
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