DEFINITIONS

“Burial benefit” means the State Department program to pay all or a portion of the cost of funeral, burial, or cremation services for certain deceased clients. “Burial funds” means the funds authorized by the county department under the burial benefit. “Burial plot” means the client's final resting place, whether a cemetery plot, vault, or crematorium niche. “Burial services” means those services provided as part of funeral, burial, or cremation services, including: A. Transportation of the body from the place of death to a funeral home or other storage facility, and/or from the funeral home to the funeral/memorial site, and/or to the burial plot; B. Storage of the body prior to final disposition and/or storage of the cremated remains for no more than one hundred twenty (120) days, in those cases where the remains are not buried and are not claimed by the client's family or friends; C. Embalming, where necessary for preservation of the body and/or preparation of the body for the casket or for cremation; D. Purchase of a casket or of an urn or other receptacle for the cremated remains; E. Purchase of a gravesite, vault, vault liner, or crematorium niche; F. Purchase and placement of the grave marker and/or of perpetual care of the gravesite, vault, or crematorium niche; G. Funeral or memorial service; H. Cremation of the body; I. Burial or internment of the body or cremated remains in a burial plot, vault, or crematorium niche; J. Any other items that are incidental to burial services. “Contributions” means any monetary payment or donation made directly to the service provider(s) by a non-responsible person to defray the expenses of a deceased public assistance or medical assistance recipient’s funeral, cremation, or burial, or any combination thereof. “Legally responsible person(s)” means a person who is the decedent’s spouse or the decedent’s parent if the decedent is an unemancipated minor who is under the age of eighteen; and bears legal responsibility for the charges associated with the decedent’s funeral, cremation, or burial expenses. “Nonresponsible person” means one of the following who makes a contribution to the charges for burial services: A. A relative of the decedent who is not a legally responsible person; or, B. Any other person or party.