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§ 54.1-2325 Deposit in preneed trust required upon sale of property or services not to be delivered within 120 days

A. Each cemetery company shall deposit into a trust fund at least forty percent of the receipts from the sale of property or services purchased pursuant to a preneed burial contract, when the delivery thereof will be delayed more than 120 days from the initial payment on said contract. The cemetery company shall establish a special trust fund in a Virginia trust company or trust subsidiary or a federally insured bank or savings institution doing business in the Commonwealth. The trust shall bear the legend “Preneed Trust Account.” Deposits are required to be made by the cemetery company within thirty days after the close of the month in which said receipts are paid to it.

B. If the purchaser’s payment is made on an installment or deferred payment basis, the seller shall have the option of paying each payment received into the preneed trust account.

History

This law was first created in 1998. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 708 and 721 of that year’s edition of “Acts of Assembly,” the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.

1998, cc. 708, 721.

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