Upon the request of a holder of a right of interment in a cemetery, the certificate of authority of which has lapsed or has been revoked, (hereinafter referred to as “the nonoperating cemetery”), or on its own initiative, the bureau may arrange through another cemetery or through such person or firm, or corporation, as it deems advisable, to make interments in the nonoperating cemetery. No such interments shall be authorized by the bureau or made unless there has been paid in full to the bureau sufficient funds to reimburse the actual direct cost of interment. The power and discretion conferred by law upon the bureau to authorize such interments are hereby delegated to and conferred upon the chief of the bureau, or, in his or her absence from the office of the bureau, the acting bureau chief.

Notwithstanding the rules and regulations of the nonoperating cemetery relative to outside burial containers, the bureau may authorize the use of such containers as it deems appropriate.