City of Eagle Lake, TX: REGULATION OF BURIALS

§ 6.05.001 Definitions.

The following words and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Cemetery

means a place that is used or intended to be used for internment, and includes graveyard, burial park, mausoleum, or any other area containing one or more graves.

Columbrium

means a durable, fireproof structure, or a room or other space in a durable, fireproof structure, containing niches and used or intended to be used to contain cremated remains.

Grave

means a space of ground that contains interred human remains or is in a burial park and that is used or intended to be used for interment of human remains in the ground.

Inter

means the act of entombing, burying, or placing in a niche.

Interment

means the permanent disposition of remains by entombment, burial, or placement in a niche.

(Ordinance 2025-04 adopted 6/10/2025)

§ 6.05.002 Interment outside of established cemetery prohibited.

(a)

It shall be unlawful to inter the dead body of any person within the corporate limits of the city outside the limits of an established cemetery or a duly established columbarium.

(b)

No new cemeteries, public or private, are authorized within the corporate limits of the city.

(Ordinance 2025-04 adopted 6/10/2025)

§ 6.05.003 Existing cemeteries.

Any cemetery, public or private, or columbarium heretofore established and operating may continue to operate as long as it was properly dedicated per Texas Health and Safety Code Ch. 711.

(Ordinance 2025-04 adopted 6/10/2025)