The following words and terms, when used in this title, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

1. (1) Cemetery--The Texas State Cemetery burial grounds for those individuals who are eligible under §2165.256(d)(e). An historical site of Texas established in 1851.
2. (2) Cemetery Annex--The Texas State Cemetery Annex that is approximately 46.19 acres. The Texas State Cemetery Annex is located at Bull Creek Road and 45th Street in Austin, Texas and is dedicated for future cemetery purposes.
3. (3) Cenotaph--A monument erected in honor of an individual eligible for burial in the Cemetery whose remains are buried elsewhere.
4. (4) Columbarium Wall--The wall of niches, divided into separate East and West sections, reserved for a person's cremains.
5. (5) Committee--The Texas State Cemetery Committee is the committee charged with the operations of and jurisdiction over the Cemetery and Cemetery Annex. Members consist of three voting gubernatorial appointees serving staggered terms and three non-voting advisory members, one each from General Services Commission, Texas Parks and Wildlife, and Texas Historical Commission.
6. (6) Cremains--That which is left after incineration of a person after death.
7. (7) Epitaph--The inscription which identifies the gravesite and memorializes a person on a monument, headstone or niche plate.
8. (8) General Services Commission--The funding agency for the Cemetery. Cemetery employees are General Services Commission personnel. One of four agencies, which through inter-agency contracts, participated in the Restoration and Enhancement of the Cemetery.
9. (9) Interment--The burial of a person's remains or cremains within a cemetery.
10. (10) Interred--To put into a grave; buried.
11. (11) Monument--Any marker, headstone, gravestone, grave marker, tablet, memorial, columbarium, urn, niche, niche panel, ledger stone, boulder or any other structure, memorial of granite, marble or other material intended to commemorate the deceased.
12. (12) Remains--That which is left of a person after death; a corpse.
13. (13) Texas Department of Transportation--One of four agencies, which through inter-agency contracts, participated in the Enhancement and Restoration of the Cemetery.
14. (14) Texas Historical Commission--One of four agencies, which through inter-agency contracts, participated in the Enhancement and Restoration of the Cemetery.
15. (15) Texas Parks and Wildlife--One of four agencies, which through inter-agency contracts, participated in the Enhancement and Restoration of the Cemetery.

Source Note:The provisions of this §71.3 adopted to be effective November 26, 1998, 23 TexReg 11795; amended to be effective July 27, 2000, 25 TexReg 6977.