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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>68604</law_id><section_number>54.1-2315</section_number><catch_line>Other prohibited activities</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="II">Professions and Occupations Regulated by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation and Boards Within the Department</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="23.1">Cemetery Operators, Perpetual Care Trust Funds and Preneed Burial Contracts</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The following acts shall be prohibited:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Employment directly or indirectly of any sales representative, agent, employee or other person, on a part-time or full-time basis, or on a commission, for the purpose of calling upon individuals or institutions by whose influence dead human bodies may be turned over to a particular funeral establishment or <span class="dictionary">cemetery company</span>; <a id="paragraph-248324" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2315/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> <span class="dictionary">Solicitation</span>, offer, payment, or acceptance by a <span class="dictionary">licensee</span> or registered sales personnel of a <span class="dictionary">licensee</span>, of any commission or bonus or rebate in consideration of recommending or causing a dead human body to be disposed of in any crematory, mausoleum or cemetery; <a id="paragraph-248325" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2315/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="3"><p><span class="prefix-number">3.</span> Violating or cooperating with others to violate any provision of this chapter or <span class="dictionary">Board</span> regulations; <a id="paragraph-248326" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2315/#3"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="4"><p><span class="prefix-number">4.</span> Interfering with the freedom of choice of the general public in the choice of persons or establishments providing funeral services, <span class="dictionary">preneed</span> funeral planning or <span class="dictionary">preneed</span> funeral <span class="dictionary">contracts</span>.
			Nothing in this section shall preclude a <span class="dictionary">cemetery company</span> employing or retaining a sales representative, agent, employee or other person, on a part-time or full-time basis, from offering <span class="dictionary">cemetery company</span> goods and services on a commission basis. <a id="paragraph-248327" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/54.1-2315/#4"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1998, cc. 708, 721.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
