14-DELIBERATE ON AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 21-7 LIMITATION ON BURIALS OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES AND PROVIDE DIRECTION TO STAFF

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COUNCIL MEMBER AGENDA ITEM REQUEST Please complete this form if you wish to have an item placed on the agenda for a City Council meeting. To allow adequate time to prepare packets and to coincide with staffls deadline for items, the due date for placing an item on the agenda is noon Thursday, 12 days prior to the regular meetings on the second and fourth Monday of each month (i.e. the Thursday immediately following a regular Monday meeting). In order for your fellow Council Members to fully understand your item, have productive discussion, ensure efficient council meetings, and for staff to be able to assist you as completely as possible, it is important that you describe the item with as much detail as possible and include any supporting documentation so that it may be included in the Council's meeting packets. Please return this completed form to the City Manager and contact the City Clerk at (903) 784-9248 if you have any questions. Council member making request: M Will Biard ❑ Joe McCarthy ❑ Steve Brown F-1 Edwin Pickle ❑ John Wright ❑ Rhonda Rogers ❑ Jason Rogers Description of Item: Revise Section 21-7 of the Code of Ordinances to read as follows: It shall be unlawful to bury the dead bodv of anv person within the corporate limits of the City outside the limits of an established cemeterv or a duly established columbarium. All interments shall be at least ei hteen (18) inches below the surface of the earth or at such other depth as established bv state law; provided that this provision shall not be construed so as to prohibit persons from using cement vaults on the surface for the reception of the dead Are additional sheets or supporting materials attached? ❑ Yes ❑ No I request that this item be placed on the agenda for the: M City Council meeting on this date: 2/28/2011 ❑ Sometime in the next 2 meetings ❑ No specific time in mind - just keep it on a list of pending issues Signature:/Will Biard/, Date: 2/ 17/2011 City of Paris Revised 06/30/2010 138