Burial Grounds - 9 Pa. Cons. Stat.

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Chapter 1. General Provisions

• § 101.  Definitions.
  Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent provisions of this title which are applicable to specific chapters or other provisions of this title, the following ...

Chapter 2. (Reserved)
Chapter 3. Regulation of Cemetery Companies

• § 301.  Initial deposits by newly-organized cemetery companies.
  (a) General rule.--No cemetery company shall establish a cemetery, or dispose or make sale of any lot therein, without first causing to be deposited with ...
• § 302.  Initial deposits by existing cemetery companies.
  (a) General rule.--No cemetery company specified in subsections (b) or (c) of this section shall dispose or make any sale of any lot situated in ...
• § 303.  Periodic deposits.
  Every cemetery company shall set aside annually and deposit into a permanent lot care fund a sum equal to at least 15% of the gross ...
• § 304.  Registration and filing affidavit of compliance.
  (a) Registration with State Real Estate Commission.-- (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), every cemetery company shall have a current and valid registration certificate ...
• § 305.  Use of permanent lot care fund.
  The permanent lot care fund established by the deposits required by section 301 of this title (relating to initial deposits by newly-organized cemetery companies) through ...
• § 306.  Status and readjustment of permanent lot care fund.
  (a) Single fund.--The permanent lot care fund established by the deposits required by section 301 of this title (relating to initial deposits by newly-organized cemetery ...
• § 307.  Investment and operation of fund.
  The permanent lot care fund shall be invested by the qualified trustee in the manner authorized for fiduciaries by the Fiduciaries Investment Act of 1949, ...
• § 308.  Accounts of qualified trustee.
  (a) Institutional trustee.--The qualified trustee, if an institutional trustee, shall file accounts in the court of common pleas of the county in which the cemetery, ...
• § 309.  Incorporated cemetery company as qualified trustee.
  (a) General rule.--Every incorporated cemetery company may act as qualified trustee of the permanent lot care fund required by this chapter and may be appointed ...
• § 310.  Penalties.
  Any officer of any incorporated cemetery company or any member of any unincorporated cemetery company conducting or maintaining a cemetery or knowingly permitting the same ...
• § 311.  Effect of chapter on articles of existing incorporated cemetery companies.
  § 311. Effect of chapter on articles of existing incorporated cemetery companies. (a) Statutory amendment.--The articles of incorporation or charters of all existing incorporated cemetery ...
• § 312.  Engaging in cemetery business in unauthorized manner.
  The State Real Estate Commission may investigate any cemetery company engaged in a business relating to cemetery lots, plots or mausoleum spaces, openings or foundations ...

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