Virginia Decodedhttps://vacode.org7409254.1-2808.3Acceptance of third-party-provided caskets2025Professions and OccupationsProfessions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health ProfessionsFuneral ServicesBoard of Funeral Directors and Embalmers

A. When arrangements for funeral services have been made with a licensed funeral service establishment, funeral service licensees shall accept caskets provided by third parties in accordance with 16 C.F.R. Part 453, Funeral Industry Practices, Federal Trade Commission.

B. No funeral service establishment or funeral service licensee shall be required to store a casket provided by a third party when preneed arrangements for funeral services have been made.

C. Any person selling or providing preneed caskets shall be subject to the same preneed requirements as set forth in 16 C.F.R. Part 453, Funeral Industry Practices, Federal Trade Commission, and § 54.1-2820.

2018, c. 378; 2019, cc. 93, 603; 2020, c. 97.