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The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0708\">708<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/legacylis.virginia.gov\/cgi-bin\/legp604.exe?981+ful+CHAP0721\">721<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":240389,"object_type":"law","relational_id":70915,"identifier":"54.1-2339","token":"54.1\/II\/23.1\/54.1-2339","url":"\/54.1-2339\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/54.1-2339\/","token":"54.1\/II\/23.1\/54.1-2339","dublin_core":{"Title":"Construction and development of mausoleums and garden crypts","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 54.1-2339","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section><p>Within four years after the date of the first sale, a <span class=\"dictionary\">cemetery company<\/span> or other <span class=\"dictionary\">seller<\/span> of mausoleums and <span class=\"dictionary\">garden crypts<\/span> shall be required to start construction or development of that undeveloped ground or section of a mausoleum or <span class=\"dictionary\">garden crypt<\/span> in which sales, <span class=\"dictionary\">contracts<\/span> for sales, or agreements for sales are being made. 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Completed construction shall be deemed performance for purposes of\nthis chapter.\n\nHISTORY: 1998, cc. 708, 721.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}