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148 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
and lasting fireproof construction used, or intended to be used,
for the permanent interment in crypts and vaults therein of
the remains of deceased persons.
"'Crypt' or 'vault' as herein used means the chamber in a
mausoleum of sufficient size to inter the uncremated remains
of a deceased person.
"'Columbarium' means a structure or room or other space
in a building or structure of most durable and lasting fireproof
construction, containing niches, used, or intended to be used,
to contain cremated human remains.
"'Crematory' means a building or structure containing one
or more furnaces used, or intended to be used, for the reduction
of bodies of deceased persons to cremated remains.
"'Crematory and columbarium' means a building or structure
of most durable and lasting fireproof construction containing
both a crematory and columbarium, used, or intended to be
used, for the permanent interment therein by inurnment of
the remains of deceased persons.
"'Niche' is a recess in a columbarium, used, or intended to
be used, for the permanent interment of the cremated remains
of one or more deceased persons.
"'Lot' or 'plot' or 'burial space' means space in a cemetery,
owned by one or more individuals, an association, or fraternal
or other organization and used or intended to be used, for the
permanent interment therein of the remains of one or more
deceased persons. Such terms include and shall apply with like
effect to one, or more than one, adjoining grave; one, or more
than one, adjoining crypts or vaults; or one, or more than one,
adjoining niches.
"'Temporary receiving vault' as herein used means a vault
in a structure of most durable and lasting construction used
and intended to be used for the temporary deposit therein for
a reasonable time only of the remains of a deceased person.
"'Interment' means the permanent disposition of the remains
of a deceased person by cremation, inurnment, entombment or
burial.
"'Cremation' as herein used means the interment of the body
of a deceased person by reduction to creamted remains in a
crematory and the deposit of the cremated remains in a grave,
vault, crypt or niche, or the scattering thereof.
"'Inurnment' means placing the cremated remains in an urn
and permanently depositing the same in a niche.
"'Entombment' means the permanent interment of the remains
of a deceased person in a crypt or vault.
"'Remains' means the dead body of a deceased person.
"'Cremated remains' means remains of a deceased person
after incineration in a crematory.
"'Cemetery business,' 'cemetery businesses' and 'cemetery
purposes' are herein used interchangeably and shall mean any
and all business and purposes requisite or necessary for or incident
to the establishing, maintaining, managing, operating, im-
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1934-1935 [Volume 29], book, 1935; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth17292/m1/158/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .