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

1. (1) Columbarium Wall--The wall of niches, divided into separate East and West sections, reserved for a person's cremains.
2. (2) Cremains--That which is left after incineration of a person after death.
3. (3) Epitaph--The inscription which identifies the gravesite and memorializes a person on a monument, headstone or niche plate.
4. (4) General Services Commission--The funding agency for the State 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 State Cemetery.
5. (5) Headstone--A permanent stone placed on a grave to identify the interred remains.
6. (6) Interment--The burial of a person's remains or cremains within a cemetery.
7. (7) Interred--To put into a grave; buried.
8. (8) Marker--A monument, headstone, tablet, memorial, columbarium, urn, niche, niche panel; or any other structure intended to commemorate the deceased.
9. (9) Monument--Any memorial of granite, marble or other approved material which is intended to commemorate the interred within the space.
10. (10) Remains--That which is left of a person after death; a corpse.
11. (11) State Cemetery--The burial grounds for those individuals who are eligible under §2165.256(d)(e). An historical site of Texas established in 1851.
12. (12) State Cemetery Annex--The property located at Bull Creek Road and 45th Street, currently owned by Texas Department of Transportation. The area totals approximately 45 acres.
13. (13) State Cemetery Committee--A committee charged with operations of and jurisdiction over the Cemetery. 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.
14. (14) Texas Department of Transportation--One of four agencies, which through inter-agency contracts, participated in the Enhancement and Restoration of the State Cemetery.
15. (15) Texas Historical Commission--One of four agencies, which through inter-agency contracts, participated in the Enhancement and Restoration of the State Cemetery.
16. (16) Texas Parks and Wildlife Department--One of four agencies, which through inter-agency contracts, participated in the Enhancement and Restoration of the State Cemetery.

Source Note:The provisions of this §71.3 adopted to be effective November 26, 1998, 23 TexReg 11795.