§ 5302 - Definitions - Vermont Statutes

§ 5302. Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter and unless otherwise required by the context:

"Agencies" mean town cemeteries, religious or ecclesiastical society cemeteries, cemetery associations, and any person, firm, corporation or unincorporated association heretofore engaged in the business of a cemetery;

"Cemetery" means any plot of ground used, or intended to be used, for the burial or disposition permanently of the remains of the human dead in a grave, a mausoleum, a columbarium, a vault, or other receptacle;

"Cemetery association" means any corporation now or hereafter organized which is or shall be authorized by its articles to conduct the business of a cemetery;

"Columbarium" means a structure or room or other space in a building or structure of durable and lasting fireproof construction, containing niches, used, or intended to be used, to contain cremated human remains;

"Community mausoleum" means a structure or building of durable and lasting construction, used or intended to be used, for the permanent disposition in crypts or spaces therein of the remains of deceased persons, provided such crypts or spaces and their use for the purposes aforesaid, are available to or may be obtained by individuals or the public for a price in money or its equivalent;

"Cremated remains" means remains of a deceased person after incineration in a crematory;

"Cremation" means the reducing of the remains of deceased persons, by the use of retorts, to cremated remains and the disposal thereof in a columbarium, niche, mausoleum, grave, or in any other manner not contrary to law;

"Crematory" means a building or structure containing one or more retorts, used or intended to be used, for the reducing of the bodies of deceased persons to cremated remains;

"Crypt" means the chamber in a mausoleum of sufficient size to contain the remains of deceased persons;

"Niche" means a recess in a columbarium, used, or intended to be used, for the permanent disposition of the cremated remains of one or more deceased persons; and

"Temporary receiving vault" means a vault, or crypt, in a structure of durable and lasting construction, used or intended to be used for the temporary deposit therein for a period of time not exceeding one year of the remains of a deceased person.